Software Developer Job in City Of London EC2V7RS, London UK
Software Developer in Hedge Fund
Sector Hedge Fund
Location: City of London
Responsible for Technology Development
Position type Permanent
Employment type Full time
Salary 40,000.00 - 55,000.00 GPB per year
The role
A start-up systematic Hedge Fund is seeking excellent and passionate software developer to work within small elite technology team. You will work in cross-functional agile teams and be part of an expanding trading business.
We are looking for someone who will relish a challenge and be willing to successfully take on difficult tasks, contribute to the team and learn on the job.
Main duties and responsibilities
· Working as part of the development team to provide research and execution platforms for the high frequency trading group.
· Creating, maintaining and developing new software tools, applications, datasets, analysis and implementation code.
· Ensuring the efficient sharing of information on research with colleagues and attending and contributing towards meetings to aid the high speed trading group.
Core skills
· Commercial programming experience (2 years at least, but not necessary in finance sector)
· IT skills (C++, Perl, Linux, SQL)
· Web development
· Performance tuning
· System administration
· Experience of automated testing
Preferred Skills
· FIX
· 2.6 kernel internals
· Freebsd
· Low latency systems
The candidate should be
· Keen to learn and to share knowledge.
· Problem Solving
· Enthusiasm for working in an agile manner
· Working in integrated cross discipline teams