Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager, operating in all liquid asset classes across the world. We are a technology and data driven group implementing a scientific approach to investing. Combining data, research, technology and trading expertise has shaped QRT’s collaborative mindset which enables us to solve the most complex challenges. QRT’s culture of innovation continuously drives our ambition to deliver high quality returns for our investors.

Your future role within QRT

We are seeking a hands-on Senior Software Engineer to join our Market Access team to design and develop cutting-edge, high-performance systems that power our trading capabilities. 

As a senior engineer, you will: 

• Architect and Develop: Design, develop, and maintain high-performance C++ applications for trading systems, ensuring scalability, robustness, and low-latency performance. 
• Collaborate: Work closely with FPGA engineers, DevOps professionals, and other software engineers to deliver integrated solutions that meet the needs of our trading environment. 
• Code Excellence: Participate in code reviews, debugging, and rigorous optimization to ensure the delivery of high-quality, maintainable code. 
• Drive Architecture: Lead and contribute to architectural discussions, ensuring the evolution of our software systems aligns with business and technological goals. 
• Optimize Systems: Partner with system administrators and network engineers to fine-tune deployment environments for maximum efficiency and performance. 
• Mentor and Innovate: Mentor team members in best practices and contribute to the continuous improvement of our software development processes. 

Your Present Skillset 

• Expertise in C++ Development: Proven experience in modern C++ (C++11/14/17/20) and multithreaded, high-performance applications on Linux. 
• System Architecture: Demonstrated experience in system-level architecture design for trading or other performance-critical environments. 
• Optimization Techniques: Extensive experience with low-latency optimizations, profiling, and performance tuning. 
• Leadership: Previous experience as a people manager or technical lead, demonstrate examples of leading engineers on different projects
• Communication and Collaboration Skills: Strong ability to drive collaboration and work with cross-disciplinary teams, including FPGA engineers and network specialists. 
• Debugging and Tooling: Familiarity with advanced debugging tools and performance analysis techniques. 
• Financial Knowledge: Understanding of financial products and trading systems is preferred. 

QRT is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome diversity as essential to our success. QRT empowers employees to work openly and respectfully to achieve collective success. In addition to professional achievement, we are offering initiatives and programs to enable employees achieve a healthy work-life balance.

Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager, operating in all liquid asset classes across the world. We are a technology and data driven group implementing a scientific approach to investing. Combining data, research, technology, and trading expertise has shaped our collaborative mindset, which enables us to solve the most complex challenges. QRT’s culture of innovation continuously drives our ambition to deliver high quality returns for our investors.

We have a variety of technology opportunities for our 2024 Campus Recruitment. Below are the responsibilities for each team. Throughout the interview process, we will share with you more info and discuss with you which team would be best fit for you, decide that at offer stage. When you submit your application, feel free to share with us your preference.

Application Timeline:

• Rolling applications, we review applications all year-round

Infra & Cloud Teams Responsibilities

• Intel CPU tuning deep dives including overclocking L3 cache configuration, or performance testing production code.

• Containerization with Kubernetes and monitoring using Grafana and Prometheus

• Testing and benchmarking new bleeding edge tech in our performance lab, with the view of releasing new technology into production that has a genuinely positive and measurable impact to the business.

• Building and supporting the tooling to allow our developers to spin highly available, scalable and secure cloud infrastructure on AWS

• Develop automation scripts to manage and maintain infrastructure using tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation

• Exposure to following technologies: Linux, RedHat, Python/C++ development, FPGA, Solarflare, git, Bash, SQL, Networks, AWS Cloud Computing, Network protocols, techniques and technologies, Terraform, Ansible, internal software engineering tools.

C++ Developer Responsibilities

• Developing our ultra-low latency trading system in C++ where we work down to nanosecond latencies and interact with low-level technologies like FPGA.

• Building out new large-scale data visualisation platforms and tools in Python using modern web tools and new data science concepts.

• Expanding and re-writing our GUI stack to incorporate new technologies

• Building out strategic new parts of our platforms using C#/C++/Python and various other technologies like a new risk engine that computes huge volumes of data in real time, and everything else in between.

• Exposure to following technologies: C++/C#/Python/React development, FPGA, AWS, distributed systems, Linux/Windows, etc. as well as internal software engineering tools.

Quantitative Developer Responsibilities

• Exposure to many aspects of electronic and algorithmic trading, backtesting, and data management systems

• Working with traders and quants to roll-out, support and run strategies

• Building and supporting new quantitative trading framework software

• Designing clean architecture and leveraging state of the art tools and components

• Bringing new ideas and experimenting with new technologies

What we are looking for:

• Penultimate year students or upcoming graduates studying for a degree (Bachelor’s, Master’s or PhD) in any STEM subject (computer science, physics, mathematics or any related engineering discipline) on track towards obtaining a 2:1 or above.

• Demonstrable passion for technology! Regardless of whether you have formal CompSci training or not – we are more interested in your achievements in related fields

• Pro-active and unafraid to ask questions. You can really have a huge impact here, improving our performance with suggestions and optimisations.

• Entrepreneurial approach and self-motivated.

THE CONDITIONS FOR UNDERTAKING A V.I.E  

- Be aged at least 18 but not yet 29 : you must be 28 or below when you start your assignment, bearing in mind that a V.I.E contract always starts on the 1st of the month.

- Be French or a European citizen. 

- Be in good standing with regard to the national service obligations of your country(ies) (defence ID n°).

- Have a clean criminal record.

- Be able to devote yourself full time to your assignment : no part-time work, entrepreneurship, studies or paid activity at the same time as your V.I.E.

- Accept the letter of appointment that you sign with Business France which sets out your rights and your duties during your assignment.

QRT is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome diversity as essential to our success. QRT empowers employees to work openly and respectfully to achieve collegially and collectively. In addition to professional progress, we offer initiatives and programs enabling employees to attain a healthy work-life balance.

To apply please submit your details below and on https://mon-vie-via.businessfrance.fr/.

Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager, operating in all liquid asset classes across the world. We are a technology and data driven group implementing a scientific approach to investing. Combining data, research, technology and trading expertise has shaped QRT’s collaborative mindset which enables us to solve the most complex challenges. QRT’s culture of innovation continuously drives our ambition to deliver high quality returns for our investors. 

Your future role within QRT:

As part of the next phase of QRT's development, we are rolling out hardware platforms to accelerate our trading systems. FPGA development will be at the heart of many of these systems with a focus on high frequency trading. 

We are looking for talented hardware engineers with a track record of achievement in any domain. You may have experience in finance and trading, but it is not essential. You enjoy solving complex system problems where hardware and software come together to provide high performance solutions. You will have the opportunity to work with the latest technologies and have your voice heard in this fast-paced firm. Working with trading teams, you will take ownership of:

• Translating trading ideas into the most appropriate solutions
• Develop RTL on the latest FPGAs with modern design flows
• Following through into production, analysing results and optimising

Your present skillset:

• At least 10+ years' of experience in a similar role; experience as a Technical Lead/ Manager is a plus
• Deep understanding of FPGA architecture leading to efficient designs
• Full lifecycle RTL development including automated verification
• Python scripting
• Working knowledge of C/C++ development
• Ability to see through complexity to identify simple solutions
• A realisation that good teamwork is essential to modern development

QRT is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome diversity as essential to our success. QRT empowers employees to work openly and respectfully to achieve collective success. In addition to professional achievement, we are offering initiatives and programs to enable employees achieve a healthy work-life balance. 

Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager, operating in all liquid asset classes across the world. We are a technology and data driven group implementing a scientific approach to investing. Combining data, research, technology and trading expertise has shaped QRT’s collaborative mindset which enables us to solve the most complex challenges. QRT’s culture of innovation continuously drives our ambition to deliver high quality returns for our investors. 

Your future role within QRT:

As part of the next phase of QRT's development, we are rolling out hardware platforms to accelerate our trading systems. FPGA development will be at the heart of many of these systems with a focus on high frequency trading. 

We are looking for talented hardware engineers with a track record of achievement in any domain. You may have experience in finance and trading, but it is not essential. You enjoy solving complex system problems where hardware and software come together to provide high performance solutions. You will have the opportunity to work with the latest technologies and have your voice heard in this fast-paced firm. Working with trading teams, you will take ownership of:

• Translating trading ideas into the most appropriate solutions
• Develop RTL on the latest FPGAs with modern design flows
• Following through into production, analysing results and optimising

Your present skillset:

• At least 10+ years' of experience in a similar role; experience as a Technical Lead/ Manager is a plus
• Deep understanding of FPGA architecture leading to efficient designs
• Full lifecycle RTL development including automated verification
• Python scripting
• Working knowledge of C/C++ development
• Ability to see through complexity to identify simple solutions
• A realisation that good teamwork is essential to modern development

QRT is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome diversity as essential to our success. QRT empowers employees to work openly and respectfully to achieve collective success. In addition to professional achievement, we are offering initiatives and programs to enable employees achieve a healthy work-life balance. 

Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager, operating in all liquid asset classes across the world. We are a technology and data driven group implementing a scientific approach to investing. Combining data, research, technology, and trading expertise has shaped our collaborative mindset, which enables us to solve the most complex challenges. QRT’s culture of innovation continuously drives our ambition to deliver high quality returns for our investors.

Your future role within QRT

We are growing our capability to provide first class 24/7 operational support for our global network infrastructure. The successful candidate will join the Network Operations team within the global infrastructure function, responsible for managing and maintaining the QRT Network Infrastructure and Network Automation services. The team will be operating in various complex environments, including low latency trading, high performance computing, and global WAN technologies.

• Oversight and development of monitoring dashboards, responding proactively to alerts with appropriate level of priority. Taking responsibility for continuous improvement of alerting and the overall observability stack
• Running post incident reviews finding opportunities to improve the availability and reliability of our infrastructure offerings
• Delivery of BAU changes through automation wherever possible, working with trading desk, research and other infrastructure engineering teams in a highly collaborative manner
• Perform trend analysis using various data sources aiming to seek out potential issues, improve correlation and finding capacity concerns
• Defining SLOs to ensure the high availability of network services and infrastructure
• Provide considerable support of network automation and associated tooling such as CI/CD pipelines, orchestration, Ansible, Python, GitOps practices, amongst others
• Responsible for releasing into production environments by providing high quality reviews of merges and scheduled pushes of changes/features/capabilities

Your present skillset

• Experience monitoring and resolving incidents across:
  • Low Latency LAN: Multicast, BGP, PTP, FPGA, Layer 1 Switching
  • Datacentre HPC: VXLAN, EVPN, RoCEv2, Leaf/Spine Topology
  • WAN and Internet /cloud connectivity: MPLS, BGP
• Expert troubleshooting skills of network infrastructure and collaborating with vendor support teams when required to perform deep investigation
• Good knowledge of infrastructure metric collection and visualisation tooling such as Splunk, Prometheus and Grafana
• Clear networking knowledge at Cisco CCNP level either through demonstrable experience, or verifiable qualifications

On-Call and out of hours work will be a future requirement of this role.

QRT is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome diversity as essential to our success. QRT empowers employees to work openly and respectfully to achieve collective success. In addition to professional achievement, we are offering initiatives and programs to enable employees achieve a healthy work-life balance.