Software Engineer – Elite Fintech – London - up to £250,000 + Exceptional benefits/bonus package

🚀 SWE/SRE — Up to £250,000 + Bonus

🏦 Leading Quantitative Trading Firm | 📍 London (Hybrid/Remote)

What does it take to keep a trading platform bulletproof at scale? 🔧

My client - one of the world's leading quantitative trading firms - is hiring a Platform Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to design, build, and operate the infrastructure behind mission-critical trading systems. This is a role with real technical ownership, working on problems most engineers only read about.

What You'll Be Doing:

🔹 Design, build, and maintain scalable platform infrastructure

🔹 Develop and optimize CI/CD pipelines to accelerate delivery

🔹 Strengthen observability through monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting

🔹 Build automation and self-service tooling that engineers actually want to use

🔹 Support containerized workloads and orchestration across large-scale environments

🔹 Drive reliability, performance, and scalability improvements across distributed systems and middleware

Desired Skills:

✅ Experience as a Platform Engineer, SRE, or DevOps Engineer

✅ Strong Linux systems knowledge and automation experience

✅ Track record building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines

✅ Hands-on with containerization and orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker)

✅ Solid grasp of monitoring, logging, and observability platforms

✅ Experience with Infrastructure as Code and infra automation

✅ Strong scripting/programming skills (Python, Go, Bash, or similar)

✅ Genuine passion for building reliable, highly available platforms

Why Join?

💡 Join one of the world's most respected quant trading firms

🚀 Real ownership of large-scale, mission-critical infrastructure

🤝 Work alongside exceptional engineers in a high-performance environment

📈 Tackle complex engineering challenges with modern DevOps/SRE practices

💰 Outstanding compensation, bonus, and comprehensive benefits

📩 Interested?

Apply now or reach out directly for a confidential discussion — [email protected]