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Quantitative Developer

A software-focused role building parts of Quadrature's automated trading system, from research infrastructure to low-latency stream processing and execution. Where you land depends on your strengths and interests.

What you’d work on

Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.

Build and operate distributed data systems feeding research and trading
Work on low-latency stream processing or trade execution components
Improve research infrastructure so researchers reuse tooling rather than rebuild it
Add observability so failures are caught and understood quickly

What they ask for

Required

Strong programming skills
Python, C++ or Rust
Design instincts for software systems
Experience building or operating distributed systems
Curiosity about how systems fail and evolve

Education: Not stated
Experience: Experienced developers with distributed-systems background; exact years not stated
Languages and tools: Python
C++
Rust

How to prepare

Build a small distributed stream-processing pipeline and add metrics, logging and failure handling
Practise modern C++ or Rust on performance-sensitive code and profile it
Study how trading systems are structured: market data, signal, order management, execution
Prepare to discuss design trade-offs and a system you have operated in production

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