Python Trading Engineer
Quant Capital
Overview
In this role you’ll join a Trading Technology team at a premier global HFT firm to build and optimize trading systems and algos. You will deliver rapid application development and robust Python-based tooling to support market activities, collaborating with multiple stakeholders. You’ll tackle complex, performance‑critical problems in a fast, open culture that rewards technical excellence. This is a high-impact, technically focused opportunity where you can influence latency, reliability and scalability while earning meaningful rewards.
Responsibilities- Build and enhance trading systems and trading algorithms
- Enable rapid application development and tooling for trading workflows
- Provide financial and operational support to the trading firm
- Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to prioritise and deliver on projects
- Demonstrate strong debugging, design, and problem-solving skills in a Linux environment
- Minimum of 2 years’ Python experience
- Experience working in a Linux environment
- 2:1 STEM Degree from a Redbrick
- Strong programming skills with ability to debug and design complex systems
- Experience in finance, preferably buy-side or sell-side trading firms
- Ability to learn quickly and resolve issues, understand complex systems, and improve processes
- Capability to manage multiple stakeholders and prioritize projects
- quick learner
- problem solver
- stakeholder management
- Python
- Linux
- VBA
Reference: WJ-747_31198735