Founding Engineer - HPC​/Low Latency

Quantitative Trading / Digital Assets | Fully Remote | B2B Contract

An early-stage quantitative trading firm is looking for an experienced
Engineer to take ownership of the performance, scalability and cost efficiency of its cloud infrastructure.

This is a fully remote opportunity offered on a B2B contract basis
, providing flexibility around location while working closely with a highly technical trading and engineering team.

This isn’t a traditional engineering position. The business is specifically looking for someone who understands the infrastructure requirements of low-latency and high-performance computing environments
, while also having a strong understanding of AWS cost optimisation
.

You’ll have significant ownership across the AWS environment, including:

• Designing and optimising AWS infrastructure for low-latency and high-performance workloads
• Identifying and resolving infrastructure bottlenecks across latency, throughput and compute performance
• Analysing AWS usage and identifying opportunities for meaningful cost optimisation
• Balancing performance, reliability, scalability and infrastructure spend
• Optimising compute resources as trading workloads scale
• Monitoring infrastructure performance and identifying areas for improvement
• Building resilient and scalable infrastructure supporting a growing trading operation
• Working closely with both engineering and trading teams
• Taking end-to-end ownership of infrastructure architecture and technical decisions

The key requirement is someone who combines deep AWS expertise with genuine performance engineering experience
.

Ideally, you’ll have strong experience across:

• Production AWS infrastructure
• Low-latency, high-throughput and/or HPC environments
• Compute and networking performance
• Infrastructure performance tuning and bottleneck identification
• AWS cost optimisation
• Cloud architecture, scalability and resilience
• Infrastructure automation and monitoring
• Working autonomously and taking technical ownership

Experience with in quantitative trading, HFT, electronic trading or digital assets would be particularly relevant, although strong candidates from other performance-sensitive environments will also be considered.

Fully Remote
B2B Contract

This is an opportunity to join a growing quantitative trading business where infrastructure performance has a direct impact on the trading operation, with substantial ownership over how the environment develops and scales.