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Senior Streaming Software Engineer - Top-5 Global Quant Hedge Fund

Winston Fox
London
10 months ago
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Senior Streaming Software Engineer with expertise in Data Stream Processing, Event-Driven Architecture, Distributed Messaging, and Concurrent Programming (Java, Kotlin, Scala, Rust), sought by one of the world’s top Quant Trading Hedge Funds.

My client is a Data & Technology-driven Hedge Fund, envied for its engineering culture and talent density, and largely considered as London’s answer to Citadel, D. E. Shaw and Millennium.This hire will join a specialist Streaming Engineering team, which spearheads technological innovation across the firm, catering to its vast and growing data needs; focusing on real-time solutions for streaming data and event driven applications.

This firm has a genuine and keen interest in new and open-source technologies, using them to solve pressing business needs. The business cares deeply about the scalability of the products they deliver in an environment where 24-hour availability of systems is a key differentiator. The team is therefore looking for specialist engineers who are deeply passionate about solving data problems at scale, and willing to innovate in order to solve bleeding-edge challenges across the business.

Requirements

  • Strong concurrent programming skills in at least one statically typed language (e.g., Java, Kotlin, Scala, Rust).
  • Proven Stream Processing related experience (e.g., Flink, Kafka Streams, or similar).
  • Experience with Distributed Messaging technologies (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis, or similar).
  • Experience building Streaming Developer Tools & Platforms.
  • Technical expertise with Big Data technologies (e.g., Spark, Hadoop, Ignite, or similar).
  • Experience with Cloud, C0ontainer, and Microservice Infrastructures (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker, Helm).
  • Proven ability to research and stay on top of the latest in bleeding-edge Streaming Technology, especially relevant Open-Source Committees, Commits, and Contributions.

This is an outstanding opportunity for a Senior Streaming Software Engineer with expertise in Data Stream Processing, Event-Driven Architecture, Distributed Messaging, and Concurrent Programming (Java, Kotlin, Scala, Rust), to join one of the world’s top Quant Trading Hedge Funds. Prior Finance experience not required!

Our client operates a four-day per week Onsite Working Policy. Please apply or contact for more information.

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