Junior Software Engineer

Financial Engineer / Software Engineer – Trading 0–4 years' experience | Financial Markets | AI | Trading We are working with a fast-growing investment management firm operating within the digital asset markets, looking to hire a Financial Engineer into its trading and research technology team. This is not a traditional software engineering role where you'll simply work through tickets, nor is it an ML research position. You'll sit close to the trading function, using modern engineering and AI tooling to build alpha and signal research systems, understand the strategies your technology supports, and develop an increasingly deep understanding of how those strategies are executed in live markets. This reflects the firm's own description of the role as sitting close to trading and building alpha/signal research systems rather than pure ML research. What you'll be doing • Building and improving alpha and signal research systems • Developing software and tooling used directly within the investment and trading process • Working closely with traders and researchers to understand the strategies you're supporting • Using AI tooling extensively to accelerate engineering and research • Working with financial and market data to build robust, production-quality systems • Developing an understanding of trade execution and market structure • Solving problems where correctness, robustness and efficiency are critical • Taking significant ownership in a small, fast-moving environment What we're looking for • 0–4 years' commercial experience in software engineering, financial engineering, quantitative development or a closely related field • Strong fundamental software engineering ability • A genuine understanding of financial markets, trading and investment concepts • Strong interest in quantitative/systematic trading • Comfortable operating in fast-moving and high-pressure markets • Strong problem-solving and analytical ability • Language agnostic — we're interested in enginee