Venture Up
About the Company
Venture Up is more than just another tech recruiter. By matching exceptional tech talent with ambitious technology ventures, we power your growth. Whether you’re looking to step up your career or build up your tech, design or product team, Venture Up’s expertise in technology recruitment will create the connections you need to grow your business.
We combine our expertise with two things we love: building companies and helping people get awesome jobs. Let us help you move up and venture out to achieve your goals.
Whether you’re a company disrupting the tech space, a vibrant growing business or one of the talented people that work there; you give us a reason to come to work every day. This is our passion, and because of this we have a constant commitment to the best quality of service, combined with an approach underpinned by transparency, honesty, and a genuine consultative service.
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0203 883 4600
Listed Jobs
- Company Name
- Venture Up
- Job Title
- Research Developer
- Job Description
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Research developer – Hedge Fund – Oxford
Research developer is required for exciting and innovative Hedge Fund based in Oxford. The successful research developer will be working closely with world-class researchers building systematic trading strategies, implementing them, monitoring them, and, importantly, helping execute. You'll work on a wide variety of problems, whether optimizing models themselves, software engineering, strategy analysis, or understanding market structure.
Requirements
• Advanced degree in a quantitative field such as mathematics, statistics, physics, engineering or computer science
• Strong Python programming ability, including data analysis
• A keenness to get stuck in with the financial markets
• Ability to participate in operational support and monitoring
• Attention to detail and a desire to understand complex issues
Beneficial experience
• Experience in trading or execution roles
• Experience with equity/credit markets
• Research using large, messy datasets
• Familiarity with Linux
• Pandas
Benefits:
Working alongside other extremely talented and driven engineers
Extremely lucrative salary, bonus and benefits
- Company Name
- Venture Up
- Job Title
- Software Engineer - Java
- Job Description
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Software Engineer - Java
FinTech scale-up
Full-time on site - Central London
£65,000 - £100,000 + full package + equity
About the company
After raising over $50m in seed funding from 3 of the largest VC funds in the world, this finTech is now scaling up their team to add a host of new features to the platform, as well as deploying their platform to new international markets. This company are building out service for intercontinental money transfers, coupled with market leading investment options, and has enabled over $500m of transfers to date.
About the role
As an early stage hire within the Engineering department (currently 7 people), you will play a key role in building out new features, iterating on them, whilst also contributing to architectural decision making and system design.
You'll work closely with the founding team to bring the product vision to life, shipping code frequently and learning as you go while satisfying all critical security, performance, and uptime requirements for clients and users
Design & Develop scalable backend systems in Java / Spring
Hands-on Coding - write clean, efficient, and maintainable code, ensuring high performance and security
Optimize for Scale - build resilient, fault-tolerant systems that handle millions of transactions.
Implement robust API architectures, distributed systems, and database optimizations.
Improve Performance & Reliability - monitor system performance, troubleshoot issues, and optimize backend processes.
System Design—architect backend services that are modular, extensible, and scalable.
About you
3+ years in experience in Software Engineering, with experience in FinTech or at a scale-up being advantageous
Commercial experience with Java / Spring preferred, but Python, Golang or Typescript candidates will be considered if willing to work in Java
Desire to work in a startup / scaleup organisation, and an understanding of how this will differ from an established org
History of making major contributions to system design and architecture, as well as shipping high quality code in TDD
Software Engineer - Java
FinTech scale-up
Full-time on site - Central London
£65,000 - £100,000 + full package + equity