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Qube Research & Technologies
2025 - Internship, Quantitative Developer
🌎London
2w ago

Job Description

Programme duration: from 5 to 6 months, starting in 2025.   

Who qualifies: Penultimate or final year students completing a Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD degrees.

 

Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager, operating in all liquid asset classes across the world. We are a technology and data driven group implementing a scientific approach to investing. Combining data, research, technology, and trading expertise has shaped our collaborative mindset which enables us to solve the most complex challenges. QRT’s culture of innovation continuously drives our ambition to deliver high quality returns for our investors. 

Over the years, QRT has invested in a global research and execution platform which has been deployed to cover all geographies and asset classes. This platform includes everything from high-frequency trading proficiency to extensive multi-year simulation research infrastructures. Our culture is centred around technology, automation, and industrialized processes. We operate in multiple languages from C++ to Python and embrace open-source software. 

You will be joining a community of graduates and interns, who are all looking to build a future career within QRT. We believe in nurturing talent to be successful and are looking for a new cohort of individuals to join the firm in the upcoming year. We offer a stimulating, intellectual and high performing environment, where we foster collaboration. 

You will have the opportunity to join a growing and dynamic environment, where you will be mentored by industry experts to support your professional growth, this includes the prospect of securing a full-time graduate position after successfully completing your internship. 

 

Your future role at QRT 

The specific team you join will be decided considering both your capabilities and the needs of the business throughout the recruitment process.

  • Quantitative Developer: within one of our quantitative or discretionary trading desks, you will design, implement, and monitor real-time trading algorithms. You will integrate these algorithms into our live trading platform and build low-latency tools for our trading teams. You will also provide direct support to Researchers and Traders while gaining hands-on experience with low latency trading components, including software, hardware, and systems.  

 

Your present skillset 

  • Excellent fundamental computer science skills such as algorithmics, data structures, algorithmic complexity, parallel programming, OOP etc 
  • Interest in software engineering/infrastructure/data engineering in a low latency environment, using C++, C# or Python 
  • Interest in developing skills in real-time critical trading systems 
  • Excellent communication and analytical skills – you will interact directly with Traders and Researchers 
  • Appetite for becoming autonomous quickly, and ability to work in a fast-paced environment 
  • Rigorous and structured mindset 

Additional: 

  • Database knowledge such as SQL/NoSQL is a plus 
  • Front-end development is a plus 
  • Interest in financial markets/algorithmic trading is a plus 

 

Interviewing: 

  • Apply online: applications are evaluated continuously as they are received.
  • Technical assessment consisting of a coding challenge that the applicant needs to solve.
  • The engineering teams will create a shortlist based on the candidates' backgrounds and how they perform in technical assessments.
  • Interviews conducted on-site or through Teams allow us to evaluate your technical abilities and how well you align with our company culture. 

 

QRT is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome diversity as essential to our success. QRT empowers employees to work openly and respectfully to achieve collective success. In addition to professional achievement, we are offering initiatives and programs to enable employees achieve a healthy work-life balance.