Software Engineer

I am working with an exciting scaleup systematic trading firm based in central London with superb pedigree and some amazing talent. They are now looking to hire a number of Software Engineers into the organisation at various experience levels, and offer great compensation, benefits and 3 days WFH per week!They are keen to hire across two key areas of their Engineering org - Data and Risk. In joining a small, collaborative engineering function you will have a unique opportunity to work on a variety of tools, processes and pipelines, and partner with some extremely impressive engineers. You will report directly to the CTO and have the chance to write greenfield code, helping to solve a number of interesting technical challenges for the business.Required skills and experienceProven ability to write clean, scalable code at commercial standard in an OO language, ideally one that is statically typedGreat knowledge of computer science fundamentals, including software architecture, data structures and algorithmsAn appreciation of modern software engineering practices, technologies and the underlying hardwareAn excellent academic record in Computer Science, Maths, Physics or similarBonus experienceData exposure, work on data ingestion pipelines, or big data validation, coupled with software engineeringExperience working in a Risk Developer/Software Engineer role within financial marketsBenefitsGreat starting salaries plus discretionary annual bonus scheme25 days holidayPrivate healthcare and dental planCritical illness coverPension schemeCycle to work schemeThe flexibility to work from home up to 3 days per weekVertex Search Ltd is acting as a recruitment agency on this assignment.