--- title: 'Senior Compliance Technology Developer at Qube Research & Technologies' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-compliance-technology-developer-qube-research-technologies-london-v40sqt5hh6y8' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-07' --- # Senior Compliance Technology Developer at Qube Research & Technologies - **Company:** Qube Research & Technologies - **Location:** London, United Kingdom - **Posted:** 2025-07-15 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-07 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/quberesearchandtechnologies/jobs/8073871002 ## Job description 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. The successful candidate will join QRT’s growing Compliance Technology function, which sits within the global Compliance team. You will work alongside the business, Compliance and Technology teams to develop and maintain systems supporting market surveillance, regulatory reporting and other compliance processes in a fast-paced and collaborative environment. Market surveillance will be a key focus, with opportunities to contribute to wider projects across the team. Your Future Role within QRT: - Develop and maintain Compliance Technology systems and controls, with a focus on market surveillance. - Work with stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions. - Build and maintain data pipelines and integrations across trading systems, internal platforms and external vendors. - Develop automated controls to ensure data completeness, accuracy and timeliness. - Support the day-to-day operation of existing systems, investigate production issues and implement lasting fixes. - Work with Compliance to implement and test surveillance scenarios and develop tools that support alert review and investigations. - Identify opportunities to automate processes and improve system performance and reliability. - Own testing and release processes for technical changes, coordinate user acceptance testing and maintain system documentation. - Collaborate with developers and stakeholders on wider Compliance Technology projects as priorities evolve. Your present skillset: - At least eight years of software development experience, with strong Python and SQL skills. - Experience designing and building applications, frameworks and tools from requirements through to production support. - Understanding of financial products, including derivatives, and the order and execution lifecycle. - Experience building data pipelines, integrating systems and implementing data quality controls. - Experience in data modelling. - Strong software engineering fundamentals and practical judgement, with the ability to design, write and troubleshoot code independently. - Experience using AI-assisted development tools, with responsibility for reviewing, testing and maintaining the resulting code. - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to investigate complex technical issues. - Ability to communicate clearly and work effectively with technical and business stakeholders. - Intellectual curiosity and willingness to learn new technologies and contribute across different areas of the team. - Experience with market surveillance platforms, such as Nasdaq SMARTS, or regulatory reporting systems would be an advantage. - Experience with big data tools, such as PySpark, would be an advantage. 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. ## About Qube Research & Technologies ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager that deploys data, research, and technology to execute multi-strategy trading across all asset classes. - **Entity Type**: Private (Privately Held) - **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom - **Founded**: 2018 (spun off from a systematic trading team at Credit Suisse, with roots tracing to 2016) - **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed (spun out of Credit Suisse's systematic trading team) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Financial Services / Quantitative Hedge Fund / Systematic Investment Management - **Target customers**: Institutional investors (pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, and other large allocators) - **Mission/purpose**: To combine data, research, technology, and trading expertise to solve complex challenges and deliver high-quality returns for investors. ## Products & Services - **Multi-Strategy Investment Management**: QRT deploys a diverse range of investment strategies across geographies, asset classes (equities, fixed income, FX, commodities, crypto), and time frames (high-frequency to long-term). They operate as a systematic, data-driven hedge fund. - **Quantitative Research & Technology Platform**: The firm's core offering is its proprietary technology and research platform, which enables quantitative researchers, data scientists, and software engineers to develop and execute trading models at scale. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (privately held) - **Key Metric**: Total Funding: Not applicable (privately held, profitable firm). **Assets Under Management (AUM)**: Added $4bn in AUM between the start of 2024 and May 2024, returning 22% from January to April 2024 according to reports. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Institutional investors (pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, endowments). Spun off from Credit Suisse's systematic trading team. - **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew **+56.4% YoY** to 1,787 employees. Expanded to 16 offices across 24 countries (including new offices in Dubai, Chicago, and New York). Over 100 active job openings. AUM grew significantly in 2024. ## Competitive Advantages - **Data & Technology Moat**: Combines proprietary research, massive datasets, and advanced technology (including machine learning, low-latency C++/FPGA systems, and cloud infrastructure) to generate alpha across all asset classes and timeframes. - **Multi-Strategy, Multi-Asset Diversification**: Operates across geographies, asset classes, and time horizons, reducing single-strategy risk and allowing capital to flow to the best opportunities. - **Talent Density & Culture**: Rapidly hires top talent from competitors (Goldman Sachs, Citadel, Millennium, Credit Suisse) and top universities. A young, high-performance culture with 74% of staff aged 40 or under. - **Compensation Model**: Over 40% of staff are part of a deferred compensation plan with exposure to fund performance, aligning employee incentives directly with investor returns. ## Strategic Focus - **Aggressive Global Expansion**: Rapidly scaling headcount (+56% YoY) and opening new offices in key financial hubs (Dubai, Chicago, New York, Singapore, Hong Kong). - **Technology & Infrastructure Investment**: Heavy investment in low-latency trading systems, FPGA engineering, cloud infrastructure, and data platforms (Snowflake, Python, C++, C#). - **Talent Acquisition**: Prioritizing hiring top quantitative researchers, software engineers, data scientists, and traders from competitors and top universities. Over 100 open roles globally. - **Crypto & New Asset Classes**: Actively building a crypto trading team and expanding into new asset classes and geographies. ## Why Work Here - **Compensation & Career Growth**: Highly competitive pay. Interns can earn around $12k per month. Over 40% of staff are in a deferred compensation plan with exposure to fund performance. Glassdoor rating of 4.1/5.0, with compensation (4.0) and career opportunities (4.1) as top highlights. - **Culture & Demographics**: Young, high-performance culture (74% of staff aged 40 or under, 38% aged 30 or under). 90% of staff reported good team morale in an internal survey. Described as a "fertile ground for experimental research." - **Work Environment**: Hybrid/office-based depending on role and location. Offices in London (HQ), Paris, Hong Kong, Singapore, New York, Chicago, Dubai, Mumbai, Geneva, and more. New London office in Victoria. - **Notable Perks**: Deferred compensation plan with fund performance exposure. Interns can earn around $12k per month. Strong focus on work-life balance initiatives. - **Engineering Culture**: Heavy emphasis on technology (Python, C++, C#, Snowflake, FPGA, low-latency systems, MLflow, Kubernetes). 22% of staff are in Research roles, 6% in Technical roles. Strong support for coding initiatives and academic projects in maths and science. ## Sources 1. [qube-rt.com](https://www.qube-rt.com/) 2. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/qube-rt) 3. [efinancialcareers-canada.com](https://www.efinancialcareers-canada.com/news/qube-research-and-technologies-hiring-and-culture) 4. [Greenhouse Job Board](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/quberesearchandtechnologies?page=2) 5. 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