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 firms core technology from the ground up.

The Role

Theyre looking for a Lead Quantitative Platform Engineer to design and build the firms quantitative platform from scratch covering data architecture real-time analytics and engineering infrastructure.

Youll 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.

Nice to Have

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

Why Join

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

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