Data Software Engineer

Overview

As a member of the Data Serving Platform team, you will shape scalable data-access services for live and historical datasets that power rapid discovery. You’ll build production-grade platforms that connect data providers and consumers, enabling seamless sharing and analytics across the firm. Expect to optimize performance at scale, uphold reliability, and apply strong engineering practices in a research-driven environment. This role offers high-impact work at the core of the data stack, with a clear path to shaping how researchers access and use data.

Pay / Benefits

• Highly competitive compensation plus annual discretionary bonus
• Lunch provided
• 35 days annual leave
• 9% company pension contributions
• Healthcare and life assurance
• Cycle-to-work scheme

Responsibilities

• Design, build and evolve production-grade trading platforms and services end-to-end
• Optimize software performance, throughput and efficiency at scale
• Contribute to reliability and operational excellence of critical systems
• Apply strong software engineering practices across testing, code quality, automation and observability
• Participate in a shared production support rotation, responding to incidents and driving improvements

Key requirements

• Strong competency with at least one typed language such as Java, C# or C++
• Experience optimising software performance or efficiency
• Distributed software systems
• Data processing or data serving systems
• Rust
• Python
• Parquet
• Arrow

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