Software Engineer - Quant / Research

Sells:

• Flexible hours/work options
• Technologists only report to technologists
• Programmers treated as top commodity so ‘spoiled’
• Very friendly/collaborative people
• Cutting-edge tech
• Multiple greenfield projects
• No red tape
• Beautiful offices
• Small team size in a growing company so able to make a significant impact

 
Role: (A full spec is available) You’ll be working on areas you’re best/most interested in from -

• Build and optimise new cutting-edge platforms to back-test, research & trade quantitative strategies
• Predict models to automatically invest, design and develop trading platforms
• Performance optimisation & building robust intelligent solutions to problems
• Innovate whilst bringing in new ideas

Skills/experience desired:

• Between 6 months - 8 years OO coding experience (language agnostic)
• Strong understanding of the OO principles, design patterns, data structures, computer science and algorithms
• An outside interest in technology (meet-ups, personal projects, blogs etc)
• Experience with SQL on any database (ideally open source)
• A degree of 2.1 or above from a top university
• Personality!