Requirements

• At least five years of experience developing and supporting production-grade software.
• Strong programming and software engineering skills in one or more languages such as Python, Java, Go, Node.js or C++.
• Experience designing maintainable, testable and scalable applications and services.
• A strong understanding of software design principles, data structures, algorithms and engineering fundamentals.
• Experience building RESTful APIs, distributed systems or event-driven architectures.
• Exposure to containerisation, orchestration and delivery technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with public cloud technologies, preferably AWS.
• An understanding of messaging technologies such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Experience considering reliability, observability, performance and failure recovery when designing production systems.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to make sound engineering decisions and explain the associated trade-offs.
• The ability to work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

What you'll be doing

• Design, develop and maintain production-grade applications, services and APIs supporting QRT’s trading platform.
• Build shared platforms and reusable capabilities that can be adopted across multiple trading desks and engineering teams.
• Develop modern web applications and operational tools that improve visibility, control and efficiency across trading workflows.
• Design scalable distributed and event-driven systems that integrate with trading platforms, market data services and internal infrastructure.
• Build deployment tooling, release automation and self-service capabilities that make software easier and safer to deploy and operate.
• Develop automated workflows for data processing, operational tasks and engineering processes using technologies such as Apache Airflow.
• Partner with traders, quantitative researchers and operations teams to understand their needs and solve practical business problems.
• Design software for latency-sensitive environments, balancing performance with reliability, scalability and operational simplicity.
• Build observable and resilient systems with appropriate monitoring, alerting, recovery and failure-handling capabilities.
• Work alongside infrastructure, cloud and DevOps engineers to deploy and support software across global production environments.
• Contribute to technical design and architectural decisions, evaluating new technologies where they can deliver meaningful value.
• Take ownership of software throughout its lifecycle, from initial design and implementation through to production support and continuous improvement.

Perks and benefits

• Equal opportunity employer valuing diversity as essential to success.
• Empowers employees to work openly and respectfully to achieve collective success.
• Offers initiatives and programs to enable employees to achieve a healthy work-life balance.