Infrastructure Developer – High Frequency – London recruitment

The client:

Top US high frequency trading shop seeks an exceptional, experienced software developer to design its in-house trading systems.  The client engages in high frequency proprietary trading on exchanges all over the world. As an integral team-member of the Infrastructure Development team, you will work directly with the traders to expand the firms trading capabilities on markets around the world

Responsibilities:

Developing, improving, redesigning, and/or re-implementing the firms’s low-latency/high-throughput production trading environment

Platform Optimization by the use of network and systems programming etc

Building risk-management and performance-tracking tools

Developing systems that allows easy access to historical market data, and trading simulations

Requirements:

Strong knowledge of; data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented programming, in C++ or Java (Knowledge of Python or Perl and shell scripts a plus)

The ability to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment

A working knowledge of Linux

Exceptional problem solver, with good communication skills

Previous work in financial services a plus, but not a requirement  

Benefits

Very competitive market salary

Free breakfast, lunch + snacks

Medical and dental insurance

Fully paid annual holiday

Please reply to rw@capitalchase.com for immediate consideration