Salary: £600k-800k TC

Location: London

Client & Role Overview

My client is a globally recognised hedge fund at the forefront of systematic and low-latency trading. They’re looking for a Team Lead Quant Developer to drive the technical direction of a core team building low-latency execution and trading systems.

This role is ideal for someone who wants strategic influence without losing technical depth. You’ll mentor and guide a small team while staying hands-on with system design, optimisation and delivery. Your work will directly impact execution performance across global equities and futures markets.

If you enjoy ownership, technical leadership and solving complex, real-time engineering problems, this is a standout opportunity.

Skills & Experience Required

• 12+ years of software development experience
• 7+ years in front-office trading or financial systems
• Proven technical leadership (team lead or principal engineer)
• Expert C++ skills with strong multithreading and async experience
• Strong background in data structures, algorithms and object-oriented programming
• Linux internals and networking expertise
• Familiarity with Python for quantitative research

Why Join?

• Competitive salary
• Influence both people and architecture
• Work in a genuinely elite, performance-driven environment

Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.

Contact
If you think you are a strong candidate for the role and would like further info, please contact:

Gracie Shallcross
gracie.shallcross@oxfordknight.co.uk
linkedin.com/in/gracie-shallcross-2450061b6