Position: Trading Solutions Developer

Company: $5B AUM Hedge Fund

Location: London

Salary on Application

Firm Overview

Our client is an established, technology-driven investment advisor. The firm has approximately 300 employees, with nine core offices, and manages approximately $5 billion of investor capital.

They were founded in 2005, initially to manage an electronic and floor-based options market making operation. They now have two core multi-strategy hedge funds, the Opportunities Fund and Investments Fund, and deploy strategies spanning Options & Volatility, Equity Long/Short, Quant Equities, Quant Macro, Discretionary Macro & Fixed Income, and Tactical Strategies (ECM, Converts, Index Rebalancing, and other Event Driven Strategies).

Trading Solutions Developer

As a Trading Solutions Developer, you will drive the development of a high-tech trading platform that supports strategies spanning Options & Volatility, Equity Long/Short, Quant Equities, Quant Macro, Fixed Income, and Tactical Strategies. This role provides the opportunity for a highly motivated candidate to play a pivotal role in the strategic development of trading solutions designed to enhance the firm's long-term flexibility and success.

Responsibilities:

• Work with CTO and other central teams to design technical solutions that address firm-wide needs across trading, strategy execution, quantitative research, operations, risk, and compliance
• Work with investment teams to develop new automated trading strategies using proprietary trading systems
• Support onboarding of new business initiatives to ensure the existence of proper system support or prioritisation of new projects to add necessary support
• Monitor and provide analytics on the performance of proprietary high-frequency trading systems
• Interface between PMs and Tech to translate investment needs into actionable technical projects
• Oversee the implementation of technical projects
• Assist in the onboarding of new PMs to ensure their fluency within the proprietary systems
• Train new hires across business units on internal systems and workflows

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Operations Research, Engineering, Mathematics, or other technical and analytically driven fields
• Interest in finance, trading, and financial markets a plus
• Strong programming skills in Java, Python, R, SQL, or other comparable languages
• Willingness to take ownership and accountability with a control-conscious and risk-aware mindset
• Ability to work collaboratively in teams and develop meaningful relationships to achieve common goals
• Strong problem-solving skills, work ethic, and resilience
• Ability to prioritise in a fast-paced, high-pressure, dynamic environment

Apply now for immediate consideration and a confidential chat!