Platinum & Partners is retained by a top-tier global hedge fund to identify an experienced Quantitative Trading Systems Engineer for their Systematic Macro team in London. This role is focused on building the C++ trading systems that underpin live systematic trading across global Futures, FX and Fixed Income markets.
Working directly with the Senior Portfolio Manager, you will own and maintain the pod's low-latency trading infrastructure — from production alpha computation through to order execution. This is a hands-on, performance-critical engineering role in a collaborative and entrepreneurial systematic macro environment.
THE ROLE
- Build the team's C++ latency-sensitive trading systems from market data ingestion through to order execution
- Productionise performance-critical signal computation within the live trading systems
- Build supporting research infrastructure including replay and data management
- Support execution-related workflows across systematic strategies in Futures, FX and Fixed Income
- Specify the team's performance and infrastructure requirements to central technology teams and drive delivery
- Partner with broader technology teams to make effective use of the firm's shared platforms — execution, risk, portfolio management, data and monitoring
- Implement and maintain team-level trading controls; support live production processes with appropriate integration into the firm's broader trading control framework
WHAT THEY ARE LOOKING FOR
- Bachelor's degree required; Master's or PhD preferred in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Statistics or a related quantitative discipline
- 5+ years building production systems in an electronic trading environment — futures, FX and/or fixed income
- Strong C++ in a performance-critical, low-latency context — this is the primary language for the role
- Deep understanding of concurrent, real-time systems design
- Experience building production trading systems and market data/order entry components
- Strong Linux development experience
- Strong software engineering fundamentals: testing, version control, code quality
- Familiarity with monitoring, controls and production support in a front-office setting is advantageous
- Experience working with shared internal services, APIs or established platform infrastructure is highly valuable
Particularly valued:
- Experience in low-latency execution or algorithmic trading systems development
- Understanding of systematic trading strategies and front-office trading workflows
- Experience supporting live trading processes, production controls and operational robustness in a systematic trading environment
- Experience integrating with shared internal platforms within a larger institutional technology organisation
WHY THIS ROLE
- A top-tier global hedge fund — one of the most well-resourced and respected systematic investment platforms in the world
- Collaborative, entrepreneurial systematic macro pod — the culture rewards rigorous thinking and direct contribution over hierarchy
- Full ownership of the trading infrastructure stack from market data to execution — real engineering responsibility in a live trading environment
- Access to the firm's shared platforms, data services and central technology teams — the resources of a global institution with the pace of a small team
- London base — one of the world's deepest talent pools for systematic macro and fixed income trading technology
- Highly competitive total compensation reflecting the seniority and specialisation of this profile
ABOUT PLATINUM & PARTNERS
Platinum & Partners is the specialist quant and systematic executive search firm.