Quant jobs / Radix Trading

Quantitative Technologist

A software engineering role at a proprietary electronic trading firm, improving live trading systems and research infrastructure. Most of the code is modern C++ and ships to production daily.

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.

Ship production C++ changes to live trading and strategy code
Improve simulation and machine learning infrastructure that handles petabytes of data
Speed up alpha-generation pipelines used by researchers
Work on distributed components within a large shared code base

What they ask for

Required

Low-level language skills in C++ or C
Data structures and algorithmic complexity
Numerical algorithms
Distributed systems and communication
Experience in a large code base
Deploying software to production

Education: Not stated.
Experience: Production software experience implied; no minimum years stated
Languages and tools: C++
C

How to prepare

Write a modern C++ project such as a limit order book with unit tests and benchmarks
Study algorithmic complexity and cache-aware data structures
Learn how distributed systems pass messages and handle failure
Practise profiling and shipping code through a review and release process

What to study

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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with Radix Trading and doesn’t handle applications.