Atlas Developer

We're recruiting on behalf of a leading financial firm that leverages cutting-edge technology to deliver liquidity to global markets and innovative, transparent trading solutions to clients. As a market maker, our client provides deep liquidity that helps create more efficient markets around the world, with market structure expertise, broad diversification, and execution technology enabling competitive bids and offers across thousands of securities, hundreds of venues, and dozens of countries worldwide.

Role Overview

The Development team behind our client's client trading infrastructure is a highly talented group of versatile software engineers serving hundreds of clients. As an Atlas Developer, your primary responsibility will be to design, develop, and maintain front-to-back trading infrastructure covering all aspects of the trading lifecycle, including order management, exchange connectivity, smart order routing, internalisation, and clearing.

This includes designing and building software within existing trading systems, and improving the scalability, performance, and efficiency of the infrastructure.

They're looking for self-directed, passionate developers with a solid technical foundation and a drive to dive into the details of advanced technologies and programming languages. Strong communication skills are highly valued — the ability to discuss complex, technical problems is critical to a collaborative culture.

You'll join a dynamic, fast-paced, meritocratic environment with a flat hierarchy. No finance background is necessary or expected — you'll learn all the intricacies of how trading and technology intersect within the global financial marketplace, in a culture where learning and teaching are key.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain proprietary, low-latency trading systems and infrastructure

Produce powerful trading tools which leverage all aspects of a high-performance system

Improve the scalability and performance of the trading infrastructure

Understand the future needs of the business and design technical solutions to meet these demands

Handle a wide variety of projects, from frontend-facing work to backend infrastructure, each in different programming languages

The Candidate

B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field or experience

Experience building and designing distributed and scalable software in general purpose languages such as Java, Go, C++

Driven, self-starting personality, with the ability to demonstrate peer leadership and initiative early on

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Desired but Not Required

Experience in Python

Experience in distributed and/or highly concurrent systems

Experience in low-latency systems and/or high transaction environments

Experience working in collaborative environments

Experience with relational databases

2 to 5+ years of experience building, shipping, and maintaining highly optimised, scalable code

26 days annual leave, plus additional leave for community service, marriage/civil partnerships, and moving house

Family Support: Paid maternity leave and enhanced paternity leave

Comprehensive Health & Wellbeing: Private health, dental, and optical cover, annual health assessments, private GP access, and a dedicated wellness programme

Financial Protection: Life assurance, income protection, and a competitive pension scheme

Active Lifestyle Perks: Gym subsidy/fitness reimbursement and Cycle to Work scheme

Travel Cover: Personal travel insurance

Daily Perks: Complimentary catered lunches every day

Our client is an equal opportunity employer, committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace, welcoming applicants for who they are, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.