Principal SQL Developer Trading Desk | SQL Server, C#/.NET, Concurrent SQL environment | 25-Year Systematic Hedge Fund
* £140k-£180k circa base + bonus (up to 100%)
* City of London, on-site Mon-Fri
Our client, an algorithmic trading hedge fund with a 25-yeartrack recordin systematic trading, are hiring aPrincipalSQLDeveloper to join their trading desk tech team. Itsa 20-person business withroughly halfthe team in engineering and technical roles, soyourein a genuinely tech-led environment where trading is fully programmatic and engineers work closely with the desk day to day.
Theyre hiring a Principal SQL Developer to become the lead engineer responsible for their most business-critical platform: the internal trading dashboard that sits at the centre of the desks day-to-day activity. Youll work closely with traders, quantitative researchers and the Founder, helping shape how financial market data is stored, modelled, queried and surfaced across the business.
The environment spans long-running futures trading systems, crypto trading infrastructure built over the last decade, and increasingly complex options datasets. A big part of the role is understanding what the business is trying to achieve with the data, then designing the right structures, workflows and tooling around it.
This is not a traditional ETL or pipeline engineering role. The systems are highly concurrent, trans...