Lead Quantitative Platform Engineer
Sector: Quantitative Trading / Trading Technology
Salary: Highly Competitive + Equity
Location: Dubai or New York
About The Company
Our client is building a next-generation retail brokerage with institutional-level quantitative trading capabilities. This is an early-stage opportunity to help build the firm's core technology from the ground up.
The Role
They're looking for a Lead Quantitative Platform Engineer to design and build the firm's quantitative platform from scratch, covering data architecture, real-time analytics and engineering infrastructure.
You'll work closely with traders and quantitative researchers, with longer-term scope to expand into pricing, risk and trading technology.
Requirements
- Strong Python and software engineering skills.
- Experience building scalable data architectures and high-performance pipelines.
- Real-time/streaming and event-driven systems experience.
- Strong SQL and modern database experience.
- Experience with distributed or cloud-native systems.
Nice to Have
- C++, Rust or Java experience.
- Systematic trading experience.
- Knowledge of pricing, risk or financial modelling.
Why Join?
- Genuine greenfield build with significant ownership.
- Work closely with traders, quants and leadership.
- Shape the firm's quantitative technology from day one.
- Longer-term scope across pricing and trading technology.
If this sounds like you, apply directly or send your CV to ellietaylor@albertbow.com