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    As a Core Trading Technology Engineer in Alpha Tech, you will be working at the heart of our trading systems, from trade signal capturing to trade monitoring, across all asset classes traded by AHL. In this role you will collaborate extensively with the trading and operations teams. Your challenges will be varied, including implementing new trading functions, optimising and maintaining existing trading systems, contributing to their architecture, and providing second level support. The role offers ample opportunities to make a distinctive mark in our continuous efforts to ensure that our trading systems are aligned with the ever-growing complexity of our trading requirements.

    The Team

    Core Trading Technology Engineers are part of our Man Alpha Technology team, comprising over 130 individuals representing eighteen nationalities. We have varied backgrounds including Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Engineering – even Classics – but what unifies us is a passion for technology and writing high-quality code. People often rotate teams to learn more about our systems, as well as find the position that best matches their interests.

    Our Technology

    Our systems are almost all running on Linux and most of our code is in Python. We implement the systems that require the highest data throughput in Java and C++. For storage, we rely heavily on MongoDB, NFS, S3 and SQL, all backed by petabytes of flash storage. For distributed computing we use Apache Spark. We use Airflow for workflow management, Kafka for data distribution, Bitbucket for source control, Jenkins for continuous integration, Grafana + Prometheus for metrics collection, ELK for log shipping and monitoring, Docker for containerisation, Kubernetes for container-orchestration, OpenStack for our private cloud, Ansible for architecture automation, and Slack for internal communication. But our technology list is never static: we constantly evaluate new tools and libraries.

    Technology and Business Skills

    We strive to hire only the brightest and best and most highly skilled and passionate technologists.

    Essential

    • Exceptional technology skills; recognised by your peers as an expert in your domain
    • A proponent of strong collaborative software engineering techniques and methods: agile development, continuous integration, code review, unit testing, refactoring and related approaches
    • Expert knowledge in one or more programming languages, preferably Python and Java
    • Proficient on Linux platforms with knowledge of various scripting languages
    • Strong knowledge of one or more relevant database technologies e.g. Oracle, MongoDB
    • Familiarity with a variety of programming styles (e.g. OO, functional) and in-depth knowledge of design patterns.

    Advantageous

    • An excellent understanding of financial markets and instruments
    • Experience of quantitative or automated trading systems development e.g. in a hedge fund or investment bank
    • Expertise in building distributed systems with service-based or event-driven architectures, and concurrent processing
    • A knowledge of modern practices for data engineering and stream processing
    • An understanding of financial market data collection and processing
    • Experience of web-based development and visualisation technology for portraying large and complex data sets and relationships

    Personal Attributes

    • Strong academic record and a degree with high mathematical or computing content e.g. Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or Physics from a leading university
    • Craftsman-like approach to building software; takes pride in engineering excellence and instils these values in others
    • Focused on delivering value to the business with relentless efforts to improve process
    • Strong interpersonal skills; able to establish and maintain a close working relationship with quantitative researchers, traders and senior business people alike
    • Confident communicator; able to argue a point concisely and deal positively with conflicting views.
    • Intellectually robust with a keenly analytic approach to problem solving
    • Self-organised with the ability to effectively manage time across multiple projects and with competing business demands and priorities.
    • Demonstrable passion for technology e.g. personal projects, open-source involvement.

    Working Here

    Alpha Tech has a small company, no-attitude feel. It is flat structured, open, transparent and collaborative, and you will have plenty of opportunity to grow and have enormous impact on what we do.  We are actively engaged with the broader technology community.

    • We host and sponsor London’s PyData and Machine Learning Meetups
    • We open-source some of our technology. 
    • We regularly talk at leading industry conferences, and tweet about relevant technology and how we’re using it.