Research Technology Engineer @ Leading Algo Trading Firm

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London on site Until 8/22/2026 First posted March 25, 2025 Last posted March 25, 2025
Job description
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.

    • Examples of current projects being undertaken by the group are:

  • 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

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. 
About this role

Summary

Contribute to HPC infrastructure and optimize large-scale compute clusters.

Job title

Research Technology Engineer

Experience level

not specified

Industry

finance

Location requirements

Located in London; remote work not allowed

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

large-scale-computeprogrammingcomputer networkstechnology stackdistributed systems

Preferred skills

None specified

Specializations

hpcprogrammingcomputer networksdistributed systems
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

London, UK

On-site City
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