Our client, a discreet yet highly successful high-frequency trading firm based in Dubai, is currently looking to hire C++ Developers (from Junior to Team Lead) to work on the firm’s cutting-edge low and ultra-low latency trading platform. In this role, you will be at the forefront of the trading industry, tackling some of the most thrilling challenges in low latency development. The ideal candidate will have an insatiable appetite for code and performance optimization combined with a deep understanding of code and robust problem-solving abilities.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain high-quality C++ code
• Work closely with the team to conceptualize, develop, test, and roll out improvements to their state-of-the-art low and ultra-low latency trading platform
• Write a substantial amount of asynchronous, template, network, and thread-safety code
• Determine system needs and limitations
• Lead and mentor a team of developers (if Lead position)

Requirements:

• Expertise in data structures, algorithms and C++
• Ability to succeed in remote/hybrid teams
• Proficiency in low latency/real-time development with sub-microsecond latency
• Comprehensive knowledge of Linux system internals and networking

Why join them?

• Operate on a remote first basis, with beautiful offices in Dubai
• Flexible working
• 40 days off per year
• Work with state-of-the-art hardware and technology

We will respond to all successful candidates shortlisted for this opportunity within 2 days and would advise all candidates to follow our LinkedIn company page for all the latest opportunities.

Crypto HFT – New York / Remote – $400-600k

Durlston Partners is working with 2 teams within existing profitable systematic trading firms and the chances are you’ve never heard of them.

One such team has spun out of a hedge fund, backed by some of the biggest names on the traditional Buy-Side. They’ve posted positive returns every month since they went live. This team is creating class-leading trading infrastructure for both CeFi and DeFi Trading because none of the 3rd party services were up to scratch to what they needed.

They are looking to hire a C++ Developer (APIs, Connectivity) to help get the best prices in the market. What’s important to them? Hiring people who are “all hands on deck” for an opportunity to make a life changing amount of money. The current team comes from an impressive background both in terms of academic and corporate institutions. This opportunity is New York based.

The other team is setting up a Digital Asset team from scratch where you will build and maintain ultra-low-latency trading strategies and trading tools. This opportunity is remote and offers one of the best benefits packages in the industry.

Required

• Bulletproof computer science fundamentals
• Deep C++ experience
• Performance enhancement and optimisation, contemporary machine architecture, connectivity to exchanges, and/or server technologies based on Linux

People are not checklists: if you are curious about this opportunity, but not sure if it’s the perfect match, please reach out to me on LinkedIn or via email (josh@durlstonpartners.com) and we can have a chat!

Head of Business Development – Crypto – Bay Area / Remote – $200 – 250k base + tokens

In a time when some crypto businesses are shrinking, there are only a few doing the exact opposite, with the balance sheet to make it happen.

During a recession, tech firms may adopt a more cautious approach to hiring. There’s an increased focus on cost-saving measures, and a shift towards hiring for roles that are deemed essential for the company’s immediate needs. In most cases, this means only hiring on the engineering and technology front.

Therefore, it takes a special type of firm to have the funding and the vision to continue growing its business with its first hire in Business Development.

The Company

We are working with project who are pioneering an approach to security in the Cosmos ecosystem. Spun out of a research lab at one of the world’s most recognisable academic institutions, this team is currently made up of top software engineers and research scientists.

The Role

As the first hire in Business Development and Partnerships, you will build long-term and sustainable partnerships with apps in the Cosmos ecosystem and other Layer-1 chains, as well as users of these chains such as exchanges.

You will contribute to designing business products and growing the company’s userbase. You will write business proposals, drive business negotiations, and follow through to close deals.

Requirements

• 3+ years of business and partnership development experience in the crypto industry
• Experience with Cosmos and a network in this space
• Bay Area preferred but can consider someone in EMEA / APAC

We specialise in Tech / Systematic Quant recruitment. For a confidential discussion about this role, and the market in general, please reach out to me at josh@durlstonpartners.com or send an application.

HR Manager – High Frequency Trading – London – Up to £70k base + bonus

In a time when some crypto businesses are shrinking, there are only a few doing the exact opposite, with the balance sheet to make it happen.

During a recession, tech firms may adopt a more cautious approach to hiring. There’s an increased focus on cost-saving measures, and a shift towards hiring for roles that are deemed essential for the company’s immediate needs. In most cases, this means only hiring on the engineering and technology front.

Therefore, it takes a special type of firm to have the funding and the vision to continue growing its business with one of its first HR hires.

The Company

We are working with a pioneering firm that specialises in trading and market making for cryptocurrencies. Despite a challenging backdrop currently in the world of digital assets, this firm continues to hire throughout, a positive sign of their approach towards risk.

The Role

As the first HR hire in London, you will deliver impactful initiatives that span the HR spectrum. This includes talent acquisition, talent development, employee relations, employee engagement, and performance management.

You will support the team throughout their journey, from their first day on the job to their last. This includes administering compensation and benefits programs, such as insurance, payroll, bonuses, pensions, and leave.

You’ll also fly the flag for this respected brand in the crypto community! Increasing brand awareness will be done on university campuses and build strong relationships with student organisations and career centres.

Additionally, you’ll provide guidance and support to managers on all employee relations cases, handling these sensitive issues with confidentiality and fairness.

Requirements

• 4 years of experience as a HR generalist
• A solid understanding UK employment legislations
• Experience driving HR projects from proposal to delivery

How does working with someone commended for the quality of his C++ by Bjarne Stroustrup himself sound?

A London based quant-driven crypto fund is looking to add C++ developers to their team before beginning trading operations. They use proprietary data sources along with blockchain expertise to distinguish themselves from their competition.

They are looking for C++ devs who:

• Are highly proficient in C++
• Have Golang experience (not necessary)
• Have an interest in the crypto industry
• Have latency and algo experience

They’re incubated by a multi-billion dollar fund, and are looking to scale strategically and steadily over the course of the next year, kicking things off with 2 x C++ Engineers to report into the Head of Algo Trading.

The team consists of a few ex-Morgan Stanley, and even an ex-Citadel Head of European High Frequency Trading Technology.

– Extremely high impact work – value seen in your own input
– Little red-tape
– Work directly with founders
– No room for egos – the focus is on creating the most efficient code and making everyone money – very flat structure
– Funding is secured, with a valuation of roughly £3m per person

Finance experience not required – latency experience (e.g. in both finance and gaming) is more important

There is a large focus on deliverables, and bonus etc is based on the work that you put in, and the success of the company. The small team nature means that you’ll see your impact correlate directly into the business.

• Up to 150k + bonus
• 4 days in-office 1 day remote
• 3 stage interview process (no take-home test)

If you or someone you know would be interested in this role, get in contact at:

• Email: ruairidh@durlstonpartners.com
• LinkedIn: Ruairidh Handyside

Referrals are well rewarded with cash

Job Title: Senior DevSecOps Engineer

Company: FinTech / Hedge Fund start-up

Reports to: Head of DevSecOps

About the Company:

This FinTech start-up offers institutional clients a sophisticated algorithmic trading and execution service for digital assets on both centralized and decentralized platforms. Led by a leadership team with decades of experience at top tier banks, the company brings a high level of professionalism to the crypto space.

Job Description: As a DevSecOps Engineer, you will play a crucial role in the design, development, and maintenance of the company’s infrastructure. You will work to safeguard the company’s reputation by implementing best practices for Identity and Access Management, Encryption, Vaulting, and Security. You will ensure that the infrastructure is secure by design and is regularly tested and audited. Additionally, you will be responsible for building and maintaining the Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment pipeline for infrastructure and applications, and troubleshoot any issues that may arise with the infrastructure and application deployments.

Required Experience:

• Demonstrated experience in regulated industries, creating and safeguarding infrastructure and applications through automated monitoring and efficient recovery processes.
• Expertise in designing the full technical stack, including AWS and third-party services.
• Familiarity with AWS
• Automated builds of secure Linux and AWS EKS environments.
• Terraform, MS Active Directory for SSO and Federated Identity.

Lead data scientist / KDB developer – Crypto HFT – 100% Remote

A crypto market maker is looking for a lead data scientist / KDB developer to join their flat-structured and entrepreneurial team of highly skilled traders and tech professionals as they expand their trading capacities. and will give you the opportunity to be working alongside traders, quant researchers, and other engineers to come up with innovative solutions to the challenging implementation of a cutting hedge HFT system.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and support tick and algo time series database as a foundation for their proprietary electronic market making strategy research
• Build and optimize KDB+ APIs for trading strategies
• Conduct data research, answering questions about the effectiveness of new strategies
• Develop and maintain processes that ingest, transform, enrich and store a combination of structured (blockchain data, reference data etc.) and unstructured data.
• Write code to integrate new trading strategies
• Build automatic reporting systems/dashboards

Qualifications:

• Degree in quantitative degree e.g. Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science
• Experience in data analysis & large data sets
• Experience in a HFT environment
• KDB+ and Q/K expertise
• Strong skills in C++/GO/Rust
• Experience building out infrastructure of large scale-systems

Apply via this page or:

Email me at ruairidh@durlstonpartners.com

Message me on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/in/ruairidh-handyside

Help launch new funds & keep trades flowing at NYC asset manager

The Role:

• A New York based specialist asset manager is looking for python developers to be working on launching new funds with the team, who are looking to help you grow and better your skills, by providing the mentorship and training that is required.
• They’re holding just under $10bn AUM for a wide variety of clients across the globe.
• They already have a CRD order system and SQL database in place, and are looking for someone to keep trades flowing into the CRD, then into their accounting system, and then into the database (robustly). You’ll also be key in preparing presentable data for reporting.

Requirements:

• Experience with Python and SQL
• Strong communication skills

Experience that may be helpful:

• Interface and Derivatives
• Risk analysis background
• Operations
• Analysis
• Commodities is a positive
• Data presentation

Benefits:

• This role has no coding test and short interview process
• Large bonus
• hybrid working – 2 days WFH
• Flexible working hours with an extremely low burnout rate!

Apply via this page or send me a message at:

ruairidh@durlstonpartners.com

www.linkedin.com/in/ruairidh-handyside

Durlston Partners is working with the crypto arm of a major global hedge fund who are looking for a Blockchain Infrastructure Engineer to join a specialised on-chain trading team. This group of highly skilled individuals is a breakaway group from the crypto arm of a major hedge fund, and you’ll have the chance to be on their founding team. Due to their ties to tradfi markets, and the cyptoasset ecosystem, this team is uniquely positioned to take advantage of all of the resources provided by the Hedge Fund.

You’ll get the opportunity to modify and interoperate with nodes and other blockchain components for on-chain trading activities, using skills in Go and Rust. This role will be a good fit for anyone with a passion for DeFi.

Helpful to have:

• Experience with node related development
• Golang and Rust experience
• Experience/interest in finance or DeFi
• Opensource projects/contributions
• Knowledge of chain roadmaps

Would you like to be mentored by a CTO who, when working at one of the world’s top High Frequency Trading firms, had a 94% success rate in promoting engineers who worked for them? Now the Chief Technology Officer at an emerging Market Maker in Digital Assets, this person will regularly sit down with you and ensure your career development is as important to them as it is to you.

We’ve teamed up with a Crypto HFT and Market Maker keen to bring in a Network Security Engineer to their high performing infrastructure team. In this senior role you’ll take the lead on the entire Palo Alto estate and will work closely with a DevOps Engineer on security challenges regarding AWS.

If career development is your priority, there aren’t many opportunities likes this in security engineering.

Requirements

• Firewalls experience (Palo Alto preferred but open to any)
• AWS knowledge in a security context
• Linux experience
• Familiarity with Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems

Benefits

• Hybrid
• Owner-mentality reflected in equity
• Low hierarchy
• Huge learning curve working with distinguished engineers

For more information, please contact: josh@durlstonpartners.com

We are working with one of the world’s leading hedge funds, overseeing assets on behalf of institutional investors from around the world, who are looking for a Front End engineer to work on the development of a macro trend-spotting platform.

As part of this project, you will not only be cooperating with project managers and strats, but also working closely with front office teams and quantitative developers in a highly collaborative environment.

Technical requirements:

• Strong JavaScript and React expertise
• Prior experience in single-page apps architecture
• Experience in testing with Jest (or similar)

Benefits:

• Salary up to £140k base + bonus
• Flexible hybrid working arrangements, with a 3/2 WFH day split
• Swift and streamlined interview process

People are not checklists: if you are curious about this opportunity, but not sure if it’s the perfect match, please apply attaching your CV or emailing it to nicole@durlstonpartners.com and a member of the team will get back to you asap.
Feel free to email nicole@durlstonpartners.com or contact me on LinkedIn if you want to arrange a discreet discussion about any of the current openings with Durlston Partners’ client base.

The company

The only market maker who continually provided quotes for clients during the recent saga in the crypto world is seeking a Quantitative Trader to manage risk for the firm. Informed decision making and being considered in their practices is one of their core values. As a firm whose service level is heralded as better than any other market maker, compensation includes a bonus which has potential to be multiples of base.

You will

• Actively and tangibly boost their earnings
• Enhance customer trading experience to increase customer service quality
• Increase exchange trading efficiency to keep them at the forefront of cryptocurrency trading

This role would best suit someone who has spent 6-18 months in a trading environment and wants to step into an industry leading market maker to be mentored by world class traders.

Requirements:

• Bulletproof academics in Maths, Physics or Statistics
• Solid Python experience
• 6+ months commercial experience

Culture is at the core of any successful business and this firm prides themselves on having created an environment that gets the best out of the team while maintaining a healthy atmosphere. To reach their big ambitions, you will work in one of their high performing teams where your contribution is rewarded fairly

The Company

We are working with a pioneering firm that specialises in trading and market making for cryptocurrencies. Despite a challenging backdrop currently in the world of digital assets, this firm continues to hire throughout, a positive sign of their approach towards risk.

The Opportunity

Your overall opportunity as a Business Development Executive is to build a strong brand name and presence in the digital assets space. You will do this by boosting strategic alliances while preserving existing business connections (e.g. cryptocurrency exchanges). Another key aspect of this role is to satisfy their trading and business demands by facilitating and leading discussions with cryptocurrency exchanges.

Requirements

• 2 – 3 years Business Development experience
• You love relationship management
• Demonstrable interest in digital assets

Benefits

• Hedge fund style bonus
• Non-hierarchical company
• Flexible working environment