Quantitative finance research firm building high-performance trading systems
G-Research runs a polyglot stack (Python, C#, Apache Spark, Kafka, ClickHouse, Redshift) optimized for low-latency financial data processing and real-time market modeling. The engineering-heavy hiring focus—32 roles across core simulation, distributed training, and performance optimization—reflects their active work on latency-critical systems: integrating high and low frequency trading signals, extracting market prediction features from text feeds, and optimizing inference speed. Current pain points cluster around large-scale workload optimization and operational stability, suggesting a shift toward more complex, distributed research infrastructure.
G-Research is a quantitative finance research firm founded in 2001, headquartered in London, with 501–1,000 employees. The firm combines researchers and engineers to develop algorithmic trading strategies and financial market models. The tech foundation spans real-time data pipelines (Kafka, ClickHouse, Redshift), distributed compute (Spark, Flink, AWS EMR), and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible, ArgoCD). Active development centers on core simulation engines, remote development capabilities, and domain-specific AI training on financial datasets. Hiring is concentrated in the United Kingdom across engineering, research, and data roles.
Python, C#, Apache Spark, Kafka, ClickHouse, Redshift, Apache Flink, Kafka Streams, AWS services (EMR, MSK, Athena, Glue), Terraform, ArgoCD, Prometheus, Grafana, and networking tools (Cisco, Arista).
Low-latency trading systems, real-time text feed feature extraction for market prediction, distributed training infrastructure, domain-adaptive pretraining for financial data, and performance optimizations in core simulation and trade planning engines.
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