Software Reliability Engineer -Market Data & Trading Technology

Sitting between software engineering, SRE and trading technology, the role focuses on ensuring critical market-data services remain reliable, performant and resilient in live trading environments.

What you’ll work on

• Real-time market data processing and distribution
• Reliability and performance of production trading systems
• Debugging across software, Linux and networking
• Automation, monitoring and internal engineering tooling
• Performance and latency analysis
• Working closely with trading and engineering teams on production-critical systems

A leading quantitative investment firm is growing its London technology team and looking for a Software Reliability Engineer with 2-5 years’ experience to work on real-time market data and production trading systems., This is a language-agnostic engineering role. Your primary language can be Python, Java or C++. The emphasis is on engineering fundamentals, systems knowledge and your ability to troubleshoot complex production environments.

• 2-5 years’ professional experience in software, reliability or production engineering
• Strong programming ability in Python, Java or C++
• Strong academic foundation in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, Physics or another technical discipline
• Strong Linux, networking and systems fundamentals
• Experience supporting business-critical production systems
• Market data production support or trading-desk support experience

A strong opportunity for an early-career engineer who already has exposure to market data or trading technology and wants to deepen their experience within a highly technical quantitative environment.