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Technical Lead – Trading Systems
Locations: Singapore, London or New York
Overview
A leading quantitative trading firm (HFT) is seeking a hands-on Technical Lead to drive the development of mission-critical trading systems across its global trading platform. This is a player-coach role for an experienced engineer who enjoys remaining deeply involved in production development while leading and mentoring a small engineering team. Approximately 70% of the role will focus on hands-on engineering, with the remaining 30% covering technical leadership and people management.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of high-performance, low-latency trading systems.
- Write and maintain production-quality software across the trading platform.
- Provide technical leadership to a team of software and quantitative developers.
- Mentor junior engineers and support their technical development.
- Establish engineering standards, development practices and architectural principles.
- Partner closely with traders, quantitative researchers and senior stakeholders.
- Drive system architecture and the long-term evolution of the trading platform.
- Participate in system design, code reviews, testing and production support.
- Improve the reliability, scalability and performance of core trading infrastructure.
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Requirements
- Extensive experience (7 yrs+) building production trading systems within electronic trading.
- Expert-level C++ software engineering skills.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, low-latency architecture and trading infrastructure.
- Previous experience leading, mentoring or managing engineers.
- Demonstrated ability to deliver complex systems into production.
- Comfortable working closely with trading and quantitative research teams.
- Strong communication, technical judgement and leadership skills.
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Preferred Background
Candidates may currently be working as a:
- Senior Software Engineer
- Staff Engineer
- Technical Lead
- Hands-on Engineering Manager
- Senior Quantitative Developer
Relevant backgrounds include:
- HFT firms
- Proprietary trading firms
- Quantitative hedge funds
- Electronic market makers
Ideal Profile
The successful candidate will be a strong individual contributor who remains passionate about writing production code while taking responsibility for architecture, delivery and team development. They should be comfortable balancing hands-on engineering with mentorship and people management, and motivated by building highly reliable, scalable and high-performance trading technology.
Please email your CV to steven@aaaglobal.co.uk with a copy of your CV if you are interested in this position.
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