Software Engineer - Research Platforms at Qube Research & Technologies (London, United Kingdom)
Qube Research & Technologies· London, United Kingdom·
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.
You will join the Data Engineering team, which builds software that enables Quantitative Researchers to access and use data across cloud and on-premises computing environments. The team works with other engineering groups to support data-intensive research workloads.
Your Future Role within QRT
You will:
- Design, build and operate distributed software that manages data across research environments.
- Enable reliable and efficient data access for large-scale compute workloads.
- Address challenges involving data movement, locality, performance and scale.
- Develop services and tooling used by Quantitative Researchers and engineering teams.
- Improve the security, observability and resilience of data systems.
- Work with researchers and engineers to understand requirements and deliver practical solutions.
- Own systems from design and implementation through production operation.
Your Present Skillset
- At least five years of experience building and operating production software systems.
- Strong software engineering skills in Go, Python, C++, Rust, Java or a similar language.
- Experience designing distributed systems at scale, with an understanding of performance, concurrency, fault tolerance and reliability.
- Experience building services or platforms used by other engineers.
- Knowledge of large-scale storage, data movement, or data-intensive computing workloads.
- Understanding of how storage and networking affect distributed system performance.
- Experience working across cloud and on-premises environments.
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.
Why work at Qube Research & Technologies
- 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.