Software Engineer - Trading Systems

This role is with one of Dex's trusted partner companies. We work closely with their teams to truly understand their culture, goals, and what they're looking for, so we can match you with the right opportunity and give you context about the role before you commit to a process. If you're interested sign up to Dex to apply. Dex is an AI recruiter agent that helps you run your job search. Tell Dex your stack, seniority, and what you want to build. We will manage your applications and surface other opportunities that are a fit. The role Quantitative research drives this firm. They apply machine learning and big data to complex financial datasets, operating at the forefront of live markets. Your work here directly underpins that research, building the engineering platform that makes it all possible. This role sits at the heart of that platform. You'll build the observability infrastructure, deployment tooling, and fault-tolerant operations for a large, federated engineering organisation. This is a hands-on engineering seat with real breadth, not just reactive support. You will actively engineer systems to make incidents less likely, and less severe. The work Design and implement observability infrastructure (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) for complex, real-time trading systems.Engineer deployment tooling and CI/CD pipelines to ensure safe, reliable releases across a federated engineering environment.Build and maintain fault-tolerant, high-availability platforms that directly support live financial research.Proactively identify and mitigate operational risks, moving beyond reactive incident response to systemic prevention.Collaborate across multiple engineering teams and research functions to define runtime boundaries and strengthen platform safety. What You Bring Deep experience with distributed and real-time systems engineering.Production-level expertise in Kubernetes, containerisation, and orchestration at scale.Proven track record building and operating observability platforms (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) and designing SLOs.Strong debugging instincts; you can quickly diagnose and resolve complex issues in unfamiliar systems under pressure.Experience with CI/CD and deployment automation, specifically building release tooling for high-stakes environments. Why apply through Dex Roles like this, at firms operating at the cutting edge, are rarely advertised publicly. Apply through Dex to bypass the usual application noise and get a full, confidential brief on the company and role. We ensure you're properly positioned and prepared, giving you an edge in a competitive market. If you're interested, sign up to Dex to apply - https://jobs.meetdex.ai/jobs/a6ea8ec9-d7b2-4560-9ae6-ef764f8b81dd As part of the recruitment process at Dex, we process your personal data in accordance with our Privacy Notice for Job Applicants. This notice explains how and why your data is collected and used, and how you can contact us if you have any concerns.