Overview

Quant Capital is urgently looking for a Junior Software Engineer with Core Java skills to join our high profile client, a Systematic Trading Hedge Fund. The client is known for technology focus, openness to opensource tools, scalability and robust performance. They currently manage around £2 billion in liquid capital.

Base pay range

This range is provided by Quant Capital. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Responsibilities

• Creating a new trading architecture for model execution
• Designing, developing, testing and deploying micro services into the cloud (AWS)
• Supporting other business units by investigating problems, querying data, and building tools
• Working in a highly collaborative, paired environment to solve complex problems
• Collaborating with the full engineering team to continuously improve architecture and processes
• Prototype new concepts and features
• Striving towards automation as much as possible
• Review of designs/code and knowledge sharing are key to smooth organizational continuity

Qualifications

• First Class Degree (A First)
• Some Financial Services Experience; understand the basic principles of options and how they are priced (you don’t need to price them)
• Core Java
• Ideally Cloud Architecture or model deployment onto the cloud
• An Understanding of computing fundamentals

Additional information

This is an outstanding opportunity to join a growing trading business with significant growth in the sector. You will gain exposure to trading infrastructure and data flows from Bloomberg and the trading floor.

Location

My client is based in Central London

Job function

• Finance, Engineering, and Information Technology

Industries

• Financial Services, Investment Banking, and Technology, Information and Media