Internship or Graduate, Software Engineer and Quantitative Developer – 2027
A 3 to 6 month technology internship with a software engineering or quantitative developer track. It sits in a systematic investment manager's technology group, with some permanent openings.
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.
- Extend an exchange simulator with more order types
- Build data solutions behind research strategies
- Work on C++ real-time trading components or research platforms
- Create lightweight trading or visualisation tools
What they ask for
Required
- Penultimate or final-year bachelor's or master's in a STEM field
- Hands-on software projects
- C++, C# or Python
- Git, SQL, GCC and Linux
- Curiosity and ownership
- Education
- Penultimate or final-year bachelor's or master's students in a STEM discipline.
- Experience
- Students; project experience valued
- Languages and tools
How to prepare
- Build a toy exchange simulator with limit and market orders
- Practise C++ and Linux tooling with Git and GCC
- Write a data pipeline that cleans and serves tick data
- Prepare for coding assessments
What to study
- Python and Data Primer
- Modern C++ for Quantitative Finance
- Trading Systems and Low-Latency Infrastructure
- Quantitative Data Engineering
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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with Qube Research & Technologies and doesn’t handle applications.