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# Senior Software Engineer - Systematic Trading Infrastructure

- **Company:** DRW Holdings, LLC.
- **Location:** Greater London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Backtesting, Software Engineering, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** September 10, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2840576008-senior-software-engineer-systematic-trading-infrastructure

## About the Role

* 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience designing, building and operating systems with high complexity.
 * Prior experience in equity stat-arb in a hedge fund, prop trading or systematic trading environment is strongly preferred.
 * Familiarity with the end-to-end systematic trading stack, including data, research, back testing, execution, monitoring, and post-trade analysis.
 * Strong system design skills and sound engineering judgment.
 * High standards for correctness, reliability, testing, observability, and maintainability

## Description

* Architect, implement, and maintain production infrastructure for systematic trading strategies
 * Build and optimize large-scale data pipelines for research and production use
 * Develop and maintain research, simulation, and back testing platforms
 * Integrate trading strategies with execution systems and support live trading workflows
 * Build tooling for real-time monitoring, diagnostics, performance attribution, and post-trade analysis
 * Improve system design, scalability, observability, operational resilience, and maintainability


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