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.
You will join the Core Trading Platform team, which is responsible for the design and operation of QRT’s global electronic trading infrastructure. This team builds and maintains the ultra-low latency systems that underpin real-time trading, managing performance-critical workflows across global markets. You will work closely with developers, traders, and operations to optimise system behaviour, reduce latency, and ensure platform reliability at scale.
Build. Break. Investigate. Optimize. Repeat.
Own production
- Take responsibility for the health, stability and performance of critical trading systems.
- When things break, you're one of the people everyone wants in the room.
- When things don't break, it's often because of something you built.
- Chase down complex incidents that span applications, infrastructure, networks and market connectivity.
- Become a technical forensic investigator, uncovering root causes that aren't immediately obvious and turning every incident into a learning opportunity.
- If you have to do something twice, you'll probably automate it.
- Build tools, workflows and self-service capabilities that make systems easier to operate and engineers more productive.
- Design better monitoring, observability and alerting.
- Measure what matters.
- Reduce noise.
- Increase signal.
- Help us understand our systems before they fail rather than after they fail
- Our systems exist to support trading.
- You'll learn how orders move through the platform, how market data flows, how trading desks operate and why reliability matters to investment performance.
- Latency.
- Efficiency.
- Deployments.
- Troubleshooting workflows.
- Feedback loops.
- Engineering productivity.
- Nothing is ever "good enough."
- Enjoy taking things apart to understand how they work
- Automatically start troubleshooting when something looks wrong
- Find repetitive work deeply irritating and automate it away
- Get satisfaction from building reliable systems
- Prefer solving root causes instead of treating symptoms
- Love learning new technologies and diving into unfamiliar systems
- Can communicate clearly during high-pressure production events
- Strong software engineering skills in Python, C++, or another modern programming language
- Solid Linux systems knowledge
- Understanding of networking fundamentals including TCP/IP and multicast
- Experience troubleshooting distributed systems
- Familiarity with observability, monitoring and automation tooling
- A passion for engineering robust, scalable and operable systems
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.
Skills Required
- Strong software engineering skills in Python, C++, or another modern programming language
- Solid Linux systems knowledge
- Understanding of networking fundamentals including TCP/IP and multicast
- Experience troubleshooting distributed systems
- Familiarity with observability, monitoring and automation tooling
- Ability to investigate Linux internals and packet captures
- Ability to communicate clearly during high-pressure production events
- Previous experience in finance or trading
Qube Research & Technologies Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Qube Research & Technologies and has not been reviewed or approved by Qube Research & Technologies.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Office amenities such as free meals, social events, and wellness-focused workspaces are highlighted in multiple locations. Cycle-to-work schemes and onsite classes in Europe further enhance day-to-day quality of life.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Two paid volunteer days and corporate donation matching were introduced firmwide. Some locations also cite generous annual leave allowances with options to buy additional days.
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Healthcare Strength — Private medical coverage and life insurance are called out for the UK. Job listings reference health insurance in various regions, though specifics differ by office.
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What We Do
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. We currently have multiple open positions on our website, please get in touch! Our commitments: https://www.qube-rt.com/commitments
