Research Technology Engineer @ Leading Algo Trading Firm
London
Roles we're searching for now: – Software Engineering /
On-site
A leading algorithmic trading company partnering with exchanges and e-trading venues globally to provide liquidity across various financial markets.
They trade c. $250 billion worth of assets every and have one of the largest compute clusters in the world.
The Role
- You'll be responsible for contributing to all components of the HPC infrastructure and code, and work on growing one of the biggest private compute clusters anywhere in the world!
- The team write their own filesystems, job distribution engines, orchestration tools and build systems to optimise the way they manage infrastructure at scale.
- Implementing an inhouse-written filesystem
- Changing host monitoring infrastructure
- Bare metal provisioning
- Changing the observability system to a new lightweight high performance metrics visualisation system
Examples of current projects being undertaken by the group are:
Essential Attributes
- Previous with large-scale-compute. This does NOT need to be in the financial space.
- Strong programming skills
- Clear knowledge and hands-on experience with computer networks
- Using your knowledge from many layers of the technology stack (network/hardware/OS/software) to produce an optimal result.
- A working knowledge of large-scale distributed systems.
Benefits
- 25 days paid holiday per year + statutory holiday and paid sick days.
- Onsite gym, sauna, and fitness classes at no charge.
- Extensive medical & wellbeing benefits including an on-site doctor and therapist at no charge.
- Breakfast and lunch provided daily.
- Various supports for caregivers, including emergency dependent care
- Generous Pension contributions.
