Lead Platform Engineer

Lead Quantitative Platform Engineer

Sector: Quantitative Trading / Trading Technology

Salary: Highly Competitive + Equity

Location: Dubai or New York

About The Company

Our client is building a next-generation retail brokerage with institutional-level quantitative trading capabilities. This is an early-stage opportunity to help build the firm's core technology from the ground up.

The Role

They're looking for a Lead Quantitative Platform Engineer to design and build the firm's quantitative platform from scratch, covering data architecture, real-time analytics and engineering infrastructure.

You'll work closely with traders and quantitative researchers, with longer-term scope to expand into pricing, risk and trading technology.

Requirements

• Strong Python and software engineering skills.
• Experience building scalable data architectures and high-performance pipelines.
• Real-time/streaming and event-driven systems experience.
• Strong SQL and modern database experience.
• Experience with distributed or cloud-native systems.
  
  

• C++, Rust or Java experience.
• Systematic trading experience.
• Knowledge of pricing, risk or financial modelling.
  
  

• Genuine greenfield build with significant ownership.
• Work closely with traders, quants and leadership.
• Shape the firm's quantitative technology from day one.
• Longer-term scope across pricing and trading technology.