Software Developer - Risk Technology

Open Opportunities :: Squarepoint

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London, Montreal, Bangalore & Warsaw Until 8/22/2026 H-1B sponsor history First posted March 26, 2025 Last posted March 26, 2025
Job description

Position Overview:

Risk Technology is a global team that designs, builds and maintains Squarepoint’s trading risk platform, which is responsible for trade capture, position management, profit/loss computation, inventory/locate management and internal order routing. These critical systems need to be performant, resilient, and capable of timely processing of high volumes of trading data in both live and historical scenarios, requiring solutions to process, propagate and store rapidly changing datasets efficiently. The Risk platform is undergoing significant investment to build a new service orientated architecture. We’re looking for talented engineers with a passion for software development who enjoy working in a dynamic, global and collaborative environment, with a strong focus on engineering excellence.

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related subject.
  • 4+ years’ C++ Linux based development experience.
  • Knowledge of data structures and algorithms.
  • Team player with excellent communication skills.

Nice to have:  

  • Experience with scalable large-scale / distributed systems / service-oriented architecture
  • Experience optimizing code for high performance applications
  • Experience with messaging systems (e.g., Kafka, AMPS, QPID)
  • Experience with Python, bash and/or Q/KDB
About this role

Summary

Develop and optimize high-performance trading risk systems in a global team.

Job title

Software Developer - Risk Technology

Experience level

4+ years

Industry

finance

Location requirements

London, Montreal, Bangalore, Warsaw; remote possible

Salary

Not specified

Visa sponsorship

H-1B sponsor history

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

C++Linuxdata structuresalgorithmsteam communication

Preferred skills

distributed systemsperformance optimizationmessaging systemsPythonbashQ/KDB

Specializations

C++distributed systemsperformance optimizationmessaging systemsservice-oriented architecture
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

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Remote

London, UK

On-site City

Montreal, QC, Canada

On-site City

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

On-site City

Warsaw, Poland

On-site City