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Execution Algo Developer
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VP, Execution Algo Developer
London | Hybrid
A global trading business is looking for an experienced Execution Algo Developer to join its London engineering team and play a senior role in the redevelopment of its core electronic trading technology.
The firm operates across highly electronic global markets and is investing significantly in the systems responsible for executing orders efficiently across multiple sources of liquidity. This is a hands-on engineering position with substantial greenfield development. You’ll work closely with trading teams to design and build the technology responsible for determining how, when and where orders are executed, while improving the performance and scalability of the wider execution platform.
The role would suit an experienced Java engineer who has previously built execution technology within an investment bank, hedge fund, proprietary trading firm, market maker or similarly sophisticated trading environment.
Responsibilities
- Design and build high-performance electronic execution systems
- Develop algorithms responsible for executing orders across multiple markets and liquidity sources
- Build logic around order placement, execution strategy and venue selection
- Work directly with traders to develop and improve execution behaviour
- Integrate execution systems with market connectivity and real-time data services
- Analyse trading and market data to measure and improve execution performance
- Improve latency, throughput and scalability across critical trading applications
- Develop highly concurrent, resilient Java services operating in real time
- Investigate complex production issues affecting live trading
- Contribute to the architecture and technical direction of the wider trading platform
- Take ownership of new functionality from initial design through to production
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Requirements
- Strong experience developing electronic or algorithmic trading systems
- Significant commercial experience developing high-performance systems in Java
- Experience building execution algorithms, order routing technology or electronic execution platforms
- Good understanding of the order lifecycle and how electronic trades move from strategy through to execution
- Experience working with real-time market data
- Knowledge of electronic market connectivity and trading venues
- Strong understanding of concurrency, networking and application performance
- Experience developing systems where latency and throughput are important
- Strong Linux knowledge and experience diagnosing application performance
- Understanding of the architecture supporting modern electronic trading platforms
- Comfortable working directly with trading and other front-office stakeholders
- Ability to independently own complex technical projects
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Desirable
- Experience developing execution technology across multiple venues
- Knowledge of FX, equities, listed derivatives or other electronic markets
- Experience working with high-frequency or latency-sensitive trading systems
- Exposure to cloud or hybrid infrastructure
- Experience within a regulated financial environment
- Exposure to emerging or alternative electronic markets
Experience within a particular asset class is not essential. The firm is primarily interested in engineers who understand electronic execution and have built systems that interact directly with markets.
The position offers the opportunity to take significant ownership of a major trading technology rebuild, working on systems that sit directly within the firm's front-office trading environment.
The role offers a base salary of £140,000–£200,000, alongside a significant performance-related bonus.
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