Software Developer - Risk Technology

Location: London, Montreal, Bangalore & Warsaw
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Posted: Aug 19, 2026
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Squarepoint Capital, a global trading firm, is hiring a Software Developer for its Risk Technology team in London, Montreal, Bangalore, and Warsaw. The role involves building a high-performance trading risk platform with a new service-oriented architecture. Tech stack: C++ on Linux, with nice-to-haves including Python, Kafka/AMPS/QPID, and distributed systems. Requires a Bachelor’s in Engineering/CS and 4+ years of C++ development experience.

Position Overview:

Risk Technology is a global team that designs, builds and maintains Squarepoint’s trading risk platform, which is responsible for trade capture, position management, profit/loss computation, inventory/locate management and internal order routing. These critical systems need to be performant, resilient, and capable of timely processing of high volumes of trading data in both live and historical scenarios, requiring solutions to process, propagate and store rapidly changing datasets efficiently. The Risk platform is undergoing significant investment to build a new service orientated architecture. We’re looking for talented engineers with a passion for software development who enjoy working in a dynamic, global and collaborative environment, with a strong focus on engineering excellence.

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related subject.
  • 4+ years’ C++ Linux based development experience.
  • Knowledge of data structures and algorithms.
  • Team player with excellent communication skills.

Nice to have:

  • Experience with scalable large-scale / distributed systems / service-oriented architecture
  • Experience optimizing code for high performance applications
  • Experience with messaging systems (e.g., Kafka, AMPS, QPID)
  • Experience with Python, bash and/or Q/KDB

About the Company

Name: Squarepoint Capital

We are a leading global investment manager committed to achieving high quality returns for our clients. Squarepoint uses a rigorous scientific approach to construct a diversified portfolio of systematic and quantitative strategies. We leverage our state-of-the-art technology and data platform to capitalize on avant-garde research.

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