Salary: circa £130k base + £40k bonus
Experience: 3 - 6 years
Job Description:
Fantastic chance for a modern C++ engineer to join the core Fixed Income and Commodities Technology group at one of the world's most prestigious hedge funds. It's an exciting time for this team, as they craft a cutting-edge, cloud-native intraday Pricing, Risk, and P&L platform - empowering the fund to make the best-informed investment decisions.
Greenfield work, in this role you'll take ownership of the whole SDLC; developing new - and supporting existing - microservices that make up the distributed risk calculation system. You will get a lot of product exposure whilst working closely with other teams (research, tech, trading, middle office) within FI, Commodities, Credit and FX.
The codebase is written in C++20, utilising such open-source technologies as Google RPC, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS.
To be successful, you will enjoy facing off to the business and have outstanding problem-solving skills. A background in big tech or finance would be highly advantageous.
Skills and Experience Required
* 3+ years' professional experience with modern C++ (at least C++17, ideally later)
* Good understanding of standard design patterns and data structures
* At least a bachelor's degree in Maths, Computer Science (or other STEM field) from a top-tier university
* Strong programming skills with clean reliable code
Desirable:
* Modern development stack: source control, CI/CD, containers, etc.
* Experience with: Linux, Python, Java, Kubernetes, Docker
* Knowledge of statistics, stochastic processes, discrete math, etc.
Benefits & Incentives
* Significant salary + a bonus tied to profits / trading strategy success
* Greenfield work / big impact
* Very collaborative culture, ideas are implemented
* Work-from-home opportunities
Contact
If you feel you're suitable for this role, want to hear about similar positions, or would like help hiring similar developers for your company, then please send your CV or get in touch:
Richard Allan
richard.allan@oxfordknight.co.uk
020 3137 9574
linkedin.com/in/richardallanok/
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