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Overview

Director and Head of Trading Technology at Quant Capital Consulting — Trading Software Engineer (Systematic Market Maker). Location: London (onsite 4 days).

Quant Capital is urgently looking for a Software Developer to join a prestigious market maker. This role sits in a highly autonomous engineering team building performance-critical trading systems that power both OTC and exchange-based strategies across global markets. You’ll work on latency-optimised infrastructure designed for scale, precision and adaptability. This is a role that suits those who have been working on high performance systems at the very highest level.

Role

This is a hands-on development position focused on building pricing engines, market connectivity, execution logic, and real-time controls. You’ll work directly with researchers and analysts, deploying models into production and designing architecture that balances performance and flexibility.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain low-latency trading platforms across asset classes
• Design pricing and risk logic, market data processing, and order handling
• Optimise data flow and system throughput under real-time constraints
• Implement core components in Kotlin (some C++ and legacy Python/Java)
• Engineer for reliability, testing, monitoring and rapid fault recovery

What You’ll Bring

• Solid command of CS fundamentals, algorithms, architecture, systems; likely been a competitive programmer
• Advanced experience in Kotlin or Java (Other languages considered: C#/F#/C++)
• Deep familiarity with Linux environments and system-level APIs
• Experience with high-throughput, low-latency systems
• Ability to work independently and review code for correctness and clarity
• Finance experience not required, but curiosity helps

Why Apply

• High-impact team with wide scope and minimal red tape
• Build tech that goes live—trading billions in volume daily
• Fast feedback, full ownership, and close collaboration with research
• Real engineering challenges—performance, scale, reliability

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Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Information Technology

Industries

• Capital Markets
• Software Development
• IT System Custom Software Development

London, England, United Kingdom

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