IT & Software

Linux Engineering Manager – Tier 1 HFT

Quant Capital

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

Overview

As Linux Engineer Manager, you lead a growing team of Linux engineers while remaining hands-on to drive platform improvements powering production trading systems. You will foster cross-team partnerships and optimize service delivery in a fast-paced quant trading environment. You shape technical strategy, mentor engineers, and tackle OS and systems programming challenges at scale. This role offers a meaningful impact on a globally respected trading platform and a culture of technical excellence.

Responsibilities
  • Provide strong leadership and mentorship to a growing team of Linux Engineers
  • Balance hands-on technical contributions with progressing into a management role
  • Ensure continuous maintenance and improvement of the production trading platform
  • Support team members to thrive and excel in their roles
  • Build firm-wide partnerships and foster a collaborative environment
  • Solve technical challenges across OS fundamentals and systems programming
  • Lead large-scale coordination to improve service delivery and team productivity
Key requirements
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related discipline
  • Strong programming experience and willingness to learn a new language
  • Proven experience leading and supporting individuals and teams
  • Ability to build strong partnerships across the organization
  • Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills (technical, process, people)
  • In-depth knowledge of Linux OS fundamentals
  • Proficiency in Unix command line and shell scripting
  • Practical experience with modern Linux systems and systems programming concepts
  • leadership and mentoring
  • collaboration and teamwork
  • strong communication
  • Linux OS fundamentals
  • systems programming concepts
  • Unix command line and shell scripting

Reference: WJ-747_31163315

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