Quantitative Developer - Front End, React/C#

Description

The company is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager trading in all liquid asset classes worldwide. It is driven by technology and data and takes a scientific approach to investing, combining data, research, technology and trading expertise to solve hard problems.

This is an internal engineering role building applications and infrastructure that send data from core services and APIs to users in Trading, Risk, Compliance, Regulatory Reporting, Operations and Support. The work centres on C# and scalable systems that deliver accurate, timely data to trading and operational workflows, with some work on React and TypeScript user interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain C# applications and infrastructure that deliver data in real time across the business.
• Create scalable services and data flows for trade entry, positions, order monitoring, execution, risk and PnL.
• Improve application architecture, memory management and resource use to raise scalability and reliability.
• Diagnose and fix production problems involving data quality, latency, throughput and performance.
• Make technical decisions yourself and keep improving existing systems as business needs change.
• Build and extend user interfaces in React and TypeScript alongside other engineers.
• Work with Trading, Risk and operations stakeholders to understand their needs and deliver workable technical solutions.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of hands-on experience as a software engineer, with strong C# and.NET skills.
• Experience designing, building and supporting real-time and data-intensive production systems.
• A solid grasp of software engineering fundamentals, including data structures, memory allocation, garbage collection and concurrency.
• Experience finding performance bottlenecks and making changes that improve reliability and efficiency.
• Ability to work independently, make sound architectural decisions and own complex technical problems.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills for working with both technical and business stakeholders.
• Experience with React, TypeScript, JavaScript, WPF, WinForms or similar user interface technologies is beneficial.
• Exposure to financial markets, trading systems or risk management applications is beneficial.
• Familiarity with AWS, C++, real-time messaging technologies, WebSockets or SignalR is advantageous.

Conditions

The company is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity.

Benefits

• The company offers initiatives and programmes that support a healthy work-life balance.