Quantitative Developer - 3 + Years HFT Experience
On site
London, United Kingdom
Full Time
27-03-2025
Job Specifications
We are seeking an experienced quantitative developer with 3 + years working in HFT industry, having seen and built successful low latency trading systems.
In this role your responsibility is to design and improve our trading stack end to end to make the firm's trading strategies more competitive and profitable.
This is an onsite role and as such permanent remote work is not an option
Requirements
Responsibilities
Your main responsibilities are developing and rapidly evolving our main software components:
Develop low latency trading engine and strategy runtime
Develop market data distribution platform (internal binary protocols)
Develop and maintain exchange API connectivity and robust exchange connectors
Full automation around deployment and monitoring of a 24/7 trading system
Continuous profiling of trading system and strategy latency
Understand and reverse engineer exchange architectures
You will be part of a small development team that shares the responsibility of the whole trading stack. As you own the code, deployment and all tooling, you can rapidly and safely iterate on changes to the trading software. As a result we deploy many times a day.
Developers collaborate directly with traders and researchers, allowing for immediate reaction to market changes and fast iteration of live trading engines
Skill
You must be a self-starter and self-learner excited to compete in the markets. Over your career you have picked up the following skills:
Experience writing low latency Java / C++ applications and architectures. HFT industry preferred but telecom and gaming industry experience also welcome
Ability to get the best performance out of application and networking stack of on-premise and cloud environment
Ability to benchmark, profile and trace full applications on Linux
Ability to find and resolve latency and throughput bottlenecks
Excited to pick up new skills to solve difficult problems (examples: eBPF, XDP, Intel PT)
While we are language agnostic our current trading stack is mostly written in Java. Some technologies we use: Aeron, SBE, Java 20+.
Benefits
Competitive base salary
Discretionary bonus scheme
Private health insurance
Pension scheme contributions
Free Friday lunches, drinks and snacks
Conference budget
Central London office
If the above job description excites you please submit your CV together with a brief cover letter that clearly outlines the reason why you apply and what makes you a great fit for the role.
About the Company
Queueco is a proprietary trading firm that engages in both conventional as well as cutting-edge alternative markets. Our strategies run 24/7 without manual intervention powered by low-latency infrastructure and the latest machine learning techniques. We're a meritocratic and lean team of highly-motivated scientists and developers and as such value technical ability more than politics: what matters is how good your code is, not how well you sell yourself. We spend no time dealing with clients, customers or investors and inste... Know more
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