Back- End Software Engineer

About Winton

Winton is a research-based investment management company with a specialist focus on statistical and mathematical inference in financial markets. The firm researches and trades quantitative investment strategies, which are implemented systematically via thousands of securities, spanning the world's major liquid asset classes. Founded in 1997 by David Harding, Winton today manages assets for some of the world’s largest institutional investors.

We employ ambitious professionals who want to work collaboratively at the leading edge of investment management.

Seeking a naturally curious and highly skilled software engineer who loves learning, deep-diving into how things really work and sharing knowledge. The ideal candidate enjoys keeping up to date with latest libraries, frameworks and technologies, balancing early adoption with system stability. They will strive to improve the developer experience through automation and streamlining not only through CI/CD pipelines but also meaningful testing and keeping in mind maintainability and supportability.

You will be part of a friendly and collaborative team responsible for post trade, reporting and cross-business software development. The role involves working directly with business functions across the firm and senior management to understand requirements, design and implement solutions. As well as project work, there are regular allocated windows of opportunity for small enhancements for both the business and technology.

Responsibilities:

• Write and maintain good quality, well-tested code.
• Collaborate with team through active contribution in code reviews, knowledge-sharing and design discussions.
• Work directly with technology and business functions across the firm and senior management.
• Build domain knowledge in business and technology areas.

What We're Looking For:

• A bachelor's or master's degree in a STEM subject
• 3+ years of full-time professional software development experience
• A learning and growth mindset
• Strong computer science fundamentals
• Keen interest in keeping aware of latest technologies and a measured approach for adopting them
• Comfortable problem solving across multiple technologies and business domains
• Desire to keep improving oneself and the team
• Collaborative nature and ability to work in a team e.g. partnering with business users and technologists
• Ability to have constructive technical discussions
• Interest in financial markets across all asset types

What Would Be Useful:

• An interest or experience with Angular, Typescript
• Experience with REST, gRPC and/or GraphQL
• Experience using OpenTelemetry to optimise performance
• Deep knowledge of any of: the trade life-cycle, valuation and P&L, fund accounting, margin calculation

Technologies We Use:

• Web: Angular, Typescript
• Server side: C#
• Data: SQL
• Cloud: AWS
• Deployment: Docker, Kubernetes

Equal Opportunity Workplace

We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics.