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# Graduate Software Developer at Squarepoint Capital

- **Company:** Squarepoint Capital
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Posted:** 2024-06-14
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-15
- **Apply:** https://www.squarepoint-capital.com/open-opportunities?id=6040910&gh_jid=6040910

## Job description

Please only apply to the one job you feel best fits your skillset and experience. If our team feels you are better suited for another role, we will reach out about the alternate opportunity.

Position Overview:

Squarepoint is seeking smart, self-driven and inquisitive individuals who want an opportunity to apply their advanced skills and knowledge in a challenging and innovative environment.

Projects within this role focus on developing and maintaining performance sensitive, reliable and scalable back-ends which are critical to our trading infrastructure. You will work alongside experienced colleagues, in small groups, to design and build the next generation of production grade trading and research software systems. Step into a career of continuous learning and development, surrounded by some of the most talented individuals in the industry, and grow your skills in a highly collegiate work environment.

When applying, you can indicate your preference for one or more of the following tracks. We will however work to ensure your role at Squarepoint is best suited to your skillset.

Python Development: Applications, services, and data driven systems

Projects within this track focus on developing and maintaining scalable services, full-stack web applications, and data processing algorithms, tools, and frameworks.

- Build and maintain the core tooling, libraries, and frameworks we use for developing applications at Squarepoint,
- Manage the software development lifecycle of libraries and frameworks used globally by our teams of technologists,
- Contribute to data driven applications, pipelines, and systems used to feed predictive models in research and trading,
- Build software products used worldwide by traders, researchers, data scientists, and other teams at Squarepoint to fuel our trading success.

C++ Development: Distributed, low latency, high performance systems

Projects within this track focus on developing and maintaining performance sensitive, reliable and scalable back-ends which are critical to our trading infrastructure.

- Work on high performance, low-latency systems powering critical trading operations,
- Drive the design and implementation of trading frameworks, market data solutions and global market connectivity,
- Build massively parallel, high-volume, distributed applications to enable our technology to scale as we grow,
- Create distributed frameworks, tools, and platforms which process massive volumes of data and underpin the stack used by other technology teams.

Front-End Development: Build modern React web applications

Projects within this track utilize your proficiency in React and Typescript to build crucial functionality for our users across the world.

- Enhance your users' experience on our sophisticated research and trading platforms,
- Collaborate with our expert team to develop fully-fledged dashboards facilitating real-time data access, and support the exploration of large volumes of data integral to our trading workflows and operations,
- Build web applications to drive rapid decision-making and uphold our competitive edge in a high-stakes trading environment.

Required Qualifications:

- Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other degree with a heavy emphasis on software development,
- Proficiency in at least one of our core languages: Python, C++, or KDB+/q, JavaScript/TypeScript/React,
- Some experience developing software in a commercial setting, demonstrated through work experience or personal projects,
- Knowledge of Linux and version control systems,
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills,
- Eagerness to continuously learn new technologies and develop with us,
- Ability to work well in a fast-paced environment.

Nice to have:

- Proficiency in more than one of our core programming languages,
- Previous experience working in the hedge fund industry, or finance generally,
- Demonstrable experience working with git and Linux.

The minimum base salary for this role is $100,000 if located in New York.  This expectation is based on available information at the time of posting.  This role may be eligible for discretionary bonuses, which could constitute a significant portion of total compensation.  This role may also be eligible for benefits, such as health, dental, and other wellness plans, as well as 401(k) contributions.  Successful candidates’ compensation and benefits will be determined in consideration of various factors.

## About Squarepoint Capital

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Squarepoint Capital is a leading global quantitative investment manager that uses a rigorous scientific approach and state-of-the-art technology to construct diversified, systematic strategies for institutional clients.
- **Entity Type**: Private (no disclosed external funding; spun out from Barclays in 2014)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2014 (as an independent firm; the underlying business, nQuant, dates back to 2000 within Lehman Brothers and later Barclays)
- **Founders**: Led by four founding partners (names not publicly disclosed); the original founders of nQuant continue to lead Squarepoint today.

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Financial Services – Quantitative Investment Management
- **Target customers**: Institutional investors (B2B)
- **Mission / Purpose**: “Achieving high quality returns for our clients” through a systematic, diversified, and research-driven investment platform.

## Products & Services
- **Quantitative Investment Strategies**: A diversified portfolio of systematic strategies spanning multiple asset classes (equities, fixed income, currencies, commodities), trading frequencies (high-frequency to long-term), and global markets. The majority of investments are based on rigorous backtesting on historical data.
- **Technology & Data Platform**: A custom, nimble, and forward-looking software stack that enables seamless integration between research and trading, executing millions of trades per day. Includes low-latency trading systems and a world-class data infrastructure.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue is not publicly disclosed (LinkedIn estimates ~$12M, but this likely underrepresents a firm of this scale; the figure should be treated with caution). The firm is privately held and does not report earnings.
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: No external investors; the firm is privately held by its founding partners. Alumni frequently move to top quant funds and tech companies (e.g., Millennium, Citadel, Qube Research & Technologies, Google, Jump Trading).
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 33.9% year-over-year to approximately 1,801 employees (LinkedIn, 2025). The firm operates 17 offices across 8 countries and is actively hiring across technical, research, and finance roles.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep heritage**: The team’s quantitative roots trace back to 2000, with a proven track record through multiple market cycles.
- **Scientific rigor**: A disciplined, research-first approach that relies on backtesting and systematic execution rather than discretionary bets.
- **Scale and technology**: Executes millions of trades daily using a highly custom, low-latency platform developed in-house.
- **Global diversification**: Strategies span asset classes, geographies, and trading frequencies, reducing reliance on any single market or style.
- **Culture of ownership**: Privately held and led by its founding partners, fostering long-term thinking and accountability.

## Strategic Focus
- **Diversification**: Continuously expanding into new asset classes, trading frequencies, and geographies.
- **Technology investment**: Ongoing development of proprietary software and data infrastructure to maintain a competitive edge in research and execution.
- **Talent acquisition**: Aggressively hiring quantitative researchers, software engineers (C++, Python), platform engineers, and operations specialists across global offices.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Collaboration across teams, a flat structure with a strong sense of ownership and accountability, and a focus on intellectual curiosity.
- **Work environment**: In-office for most roles (offices in New York, Boston, London, Paris, Singapore, Bangalore, etc.). Some roles offer a remote work program, but the majority require physical presence.
- **Benefits**: Generous parental leave, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(K) matching, disability and life insurance, paid sick days, generous PTO, paid volunteer time, free snacks and drinks. Offices are designed for in-person collaboration.
- **Engineering culture**: Technology is considered core to the business; engineers work closely with quantitative researchers to build and optimize trading systems. Emphasis on C++, Python, Kubernetes, and low-latency systems.
- **Growth trajectory**: Rapid headcount growth and a global footprint offer opportunities for career advancement and international mobility.

## Sources
1. [squarepoint-capital.com](https://www.squarepoint-capital.com/)
2. [squarepoint-capital.com/about](https://squarepoint-capital.com/about)
3. [linkedin.com/company/squarepoint-capital](https://ca.linkedin.com/company/squarepoint-capital)
4. [builtin.com/company/squarepoint-capital](https://builtin.com/company/squarepoint-capital)
5. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/squarepointcapital](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/squarepointcapital)

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