Software Engineer

Technical Lead – Trading Systems

Locations: Singapore, London or New York

Overview

A leading quantitative trading firm (HFT) is seeking a hands-on Technical Lead to drive the development of mission-critical trading systems across its global trading platform.

This is a player-coach role for an experienced engineer who enjoys remaining deeply involved in production development while leading and mentoring a small engineering team. Approximately 70% of the role will focus on hands-on engineering, with the remaining 30% covering technical leadership and people management.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of high-performance, low-latency trading systems.
• Write and maintain production-quality software across the trading platform.
• Provide technical leadership to a team of software and quantitative developers.
• Mentor junior engineers and support their technical development.
• Establish engineering standards, development practices and architectural principles.
• Partner closely with traders, quantitative researchers and senior stakeholders.
• Drive system architecture and the long-term evolution of the trading platform.
• Participate in system design, code reviews, testing and production support.
• Improve the reliability, scalability and performance of core trading infrastructure.

Requirements

• Extensive experience (7 yrs+) building production trading systems within electronic trading.
• Expert-level C++ software engineering skills.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, low-latency architecture and trading infrastructure.
• Previous experience leading, mentoring or managing engineers.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver complex systems into production.
• Comfortable working closely with trading and quantitative research teams.
• Strong communication, technical judgement and leadership skills.

Preferred Background

Candidates may currently be working as a:

• Senior Software Engineer
• Staff Engineer
• Technical Lead
• Hands-on Engineering Manager
• Senior Quantitative Developer

Relevant backgrounds include:

• HFT firms
• Proprietary trading firms
• Quantitative hedge funds
• Electronic market makers

Ideal Profile

The successful candidate will be a strong individual contributor who remains passionate about writing production code while taking responsibility for architecture, delivery and team development. They should be comfortable balancing hands-on engineering with mentorship and people management, and motivated by building highly reliable, scalable and high-performance trading technology.

Please email your CV to [email protected] with a copy of your CV if you are interested in this position.