Software Engineer, Backend Developer

About Trading Hub

Founded in 2010, Trading Hub delivers uniquely intelligent trade surveillance software to world leading financial institutions. Developed by market professionals, our solutions use sophisticated modelling techniques to detect single and cross-product market manipulation. With a team of over 150 experts based in London, Toronto, Singapore and Sydney, Trading Hub combines global reach with deep markets expertise to help our customers protect themselves from financial, regulatory, and reputational risk.

We are seeking a Software Engineer to help design, build, and maintain our calculation framework and associate analytics products. As part of our engineering team, you'll collaborate with a team of engineers and quants to create and deploy a complex, scalable and robust distributed calculation engine for our analytics platform. The successful candidate will be keen to apply their development and problem‑solving skills in a practical setting proven to deliver high‑quality software.

• Develop and maintain core logic and programming languages that power our calculation engine across multiple parts of our products
• Take ownership of a growing set of system components, ensuring they operate in a reliable, robust, and scalable manner
• Work collaboratively across teams, acting as a key link between engineering, data, and infrastructure to deliver and support shared components
• Support customer operations and professional services by helping enable, deploy, and optimise the use of our products
• Contribute to the evolution of our next‑generation in‑house big data language, with a focus on horizontal scalability and handling high‑volume, variable data loads across different customers
• Help tailor system behaviour and performance to different customer requirements

• Proven software engineering ability in C#, C++ or Java.
• Solid low‑level programming knowledge, including strong understanding of memory management, compilers and algorithms.
• Proven focus on performance‑critical systems.
• Working knowledge of SQL.
• Experience with distributed systems, including queuing and message‑based architectures, would be an advantage.
• Experience building or working with applications that scale horizontally.
• STEM background or a similar computational subject.

Life at Trading Hub is a rewarding journey within a fast‑growing company that thrives on innovation and collaboration. By combining the best of both technology and global markets, we’re able to solve complex problems together and deliver meaningful results to our customers. Everybody has value to bring, and we welcome individuality as a key driving force behind our collective success. Rooted in everything that we do are our core values:
Accountability, Ambition, Partnership and Trust. These provide the foundation for a sustainable workplace culture and the platform for you to harness your unique experience and become the best version of yourself. We believe in our people and invest in their growth, and together, we can sit on the right side of history.

• Annual discretionary performance bonus (permanent employees only)
• Hybrid working policy
• Office lunches twice a week
• Private medical insurance + dental cover
• Extended parental leave (up to 6 months of fully paid maternity leave)
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
• Enhanced company pension plan
• 5 days study leave towards professional qualifications
• Salary sacrifice schemes
• Death in service coverage

Trading Hub is an equal opportunities employer. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, ethnic or national origins, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, socio‑economic background, responsibilities for dependants, physical or mental disability or other applicable legally protected characteristics. Trading Hub selects candidates for interview based solely on their skills, experience and qualifications.

We are committed to making our recruitment process accessible to all and we encourage candidates to inform us of any required adjustments. A full copy of our diversity, equity and inclusion policy will be made available to you upon request.