Software Developer (Research Infrastructure) - £350/500,000 - Quantitative Trading

Software Developer (Research Infrastructure) | Quantitative Trading | £350–500k

How many opportunities will you get to develop a greenfield platform that directly shapes the future of a multi-billion-dollar prop trading business? I'd imagine this is one of few.

Here, you'll develop a proprietary Python-based research platform from scratch for one of the leading Quantitative Traders globally.

The challenge isn’t just performance or raw throughput - though both matter. It’s building a flexible, robust system capable of supporting a wide range of research workflows, each with its own quirks, data dependencies, and computational demands.

You won't just be writing clean, efficient Python, you'll be working directly with researchers to understand their methodology, tooling, and pain points. The system you help design will either accelerate the productivity of some of the smartest minds in quantitative finance - or get in their way.

There’s no s...