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# Senior Full Stack Software Developer, Post-Trade at Winton

- **Company:** Winton
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Posted:** 2025-12-08
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/winton/jobs/4725821101

## Job description

## About Winton

Winton is a research-based investment management company with a specialist focus on statistical and mathematical inference in financial markets. The firm researches and trades quantitative investment strategies, which are implemented systematically via thousands of securities, spanning the world's major liquid asset classes. Founded in 1997 by David Harding, Winton today manages assets for some of the world’s largest institutional investors.

We employ ambitious professionals who want to work collaboratively at the leading edge of investment management.

We are seeking a Senior Full Stack Developer with strong experience in both modern web technologies and backend technologies, a talent for business processes, and a keen interest in finance. The ideal candidate is enthusiastic, collaborative and delivery-focused, with a strong sense of ownership and ability to pick things up quickly in a fast-paced environment. They will bring both a user-centred mindset and the technical depth required to deliver robust end-to-end solutions.

You will be part of a friendly and collaborative team responsible for post-trade and reporting software development. The role involves working closely with operations, fund accounting, and other teams across the business including senior management - there is no BA layer, you will gather requirements directly from the business, design solutions and own them end-to-end. In addition to project work, you will have regular opportunities to implement enhancements for both business and technology.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Own and evolve core post-trade systems covering confirmations, trade support, treasury, corporate actions, reconciliations, limit monitoring and fund accounting
- Design and implement backend services, APIs and data integrations
- Build and maintain internal UIs where performance, data quality and usability all matter
- Work across the full application lifecycle: requirements gathering, design, implementation, testing, release and support
- Engage directly with business teams to understand requirements and translate them into thoughtful technical solutions
- Support production systems, investigate issues and implement fixes where required
- Collaborate through code reviews, design discussions, and knowledge sharing

What we are looking for:

- 5+ years of professional software development experience, ideally in financial services or data-intensive systems
- Strong backend capability in C#/.NET - you are comfortable designing services, APIs, and data integrations, not just consuming them
- Competent with a modern frontend framework - you can build UIs that non-technical users actually want to use
- Comfortable using agentic AI coding tools such as Claude Code and are genuinely keen to use them as a natural part of daily work
- Interest in financial markets across all asset types
- Enthusiastic, collaborative and comfortable working closely with business stakeholders
- Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical colleagues and a positive, can-do attitude

What would be useful:

- Deep knowledge of any of: the trade life-cycle, valuation and P&L, fund accounting, margin calculation
- Familiarity with Angular (preferred), React or another structured modern front-end framework

Technologies we use:

- Web: Angular, TypeScript
- Server-side: C#
- Data: MSSQL, PostgreSQL
- Cloud: AWS
- Deployment: Docker, Kubernetes

## Equal Opportunity Workplace

We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics.

## About Winton

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Winton is a quantitative investment management firm that designs and trades systematic investment strategies across global liquid asset classes to generate absolute returns for institutional clients.
- **Entity Type**: Private (bootstrapped, not venture-backed)
- **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom
- **Founded**: 1997
- **Founders**: Sir David Harding

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Quantitative Investment Management / Hedge Funds / Systematic Trading
- **Target customers**: Institutional investors (pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, financial advisers) seeking absolute returns and portfolio diversification.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To generate returns for clients across a range of market environments through original research, rigorous statistical analysis, and deep experience of markets.

## Products & Services
- **Flagship Multi-Strategy Hedge Fund**: A diversified systematic strategy across trading frequencies, asset classes (equities, commodities, FX, fixed income), and instruments (exchange-traded and OTC).
- **Trend-Following CTA Strategies**: A pioneer in trend following since 1997, offered as standalone or within multi-strategy programmes.
- **Systematic Alternatives Platform**: Scalable investment platform offering tailored solutions for institutional investors, including offshore, onshore, and single-investor fund formats.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private firm)
- **Key Metric**: $18 billion in assets under management [winton.com](https://www.winton.com/)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Serves the world’s largest institutional investors and financial advisers globally. Offices across four continents (London, Abu Dhabi, and others).
- **Growth Signals**: Expansion into new investment strategies (e.g., MENA Equities Quantitative Researcher role). High employee retention (8 years average tenure). 43% of employees are Winton shareholders [winton.com](https://www.winton.com/working-at-winton).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Pioneer in systematic investing**: Founded in 1997, Winton is a long-established leader in trend-following and quantitative strategies, with a 25+ year track record.
- **Original research edge**: A consistent focus on R&D and methodological rigour is the core of their investment philosophy, differentiating them from peers.
- **Integrated, centralised platform**: Centralised data, execution, and operations infrastructure enables efficient strategy rollout across asset classes and trading frequencies, removing friction for researchers and portfolio managers.
- **High-performance, collaborative culture**: Emphasis on intellectual integrity, evidence-based decision-making, and cross-divisional collaboration (investment management, technology, business management).

## Strategic Focus
- **Multi-strategy expansion**: Actively hiring quantitative researchers and portfolio managers with expertise in new strategies (e.g., MENA equities, commodities) to expand beyond their core trend-following roots.
- **Technology and infrastructure investment**: Continually integrating the latest technologies (hybrid-cloud, containerised processes) to scale proprietary and open-source applications for data, execution, and post-trade activities.
- **Global reach**: Deepening presence across four continents and five time zones to support local client relationships and investment activities.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Collaborative, intellectually rigorous, and detail-oriented. The firm values “careful and considered decision-making” and open, supportive learning. Teams work across the stack and with business users directly, removing the need for product managers.
- **Work environment**: In-person focused office environment designed to maximise collaboration and creativity. Hybrid-cloud tech stack.
- **Benefits**: Comprehensive benefits programme for employees and families; compensation scheme that rewards excellence; 43% of employees are shareholders.
- **Engineering culture**: Technology teams are responsible for the core infrastructure of investment strategies. They host regular Tech Talks, sponsor conference attendance, and support upskilling through training and courses. Developers work closely with business users, fostering strong long-term relationships.
- **Tenure and stability**: Average employee tenure of 8 years, indicating strong retention and a stable, supportive environment [winton.com](https://www.winton.com/working-at-winton).
- **Recruitment process**: Transparent and supportive—application, phone interview, technical assessment/case study, video/onsite interviews, then offer. The process is designed to let candidates showcase abilities rather than pass arbitrary tests.

## Sources
1. [winton.com](https://www.winton.com/)
2. [winton.com - Working at Winton](https://www.winton.com/working-at-winton)
3. [winton.com - About / What We Do](https://www.winton.com/about)
4. [winton.com - Career Opportunities](https://www.winton.com/opportunities)
5. [winton.com - Leadership](https://www.winton.com/leadership)

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