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Software Engineer

PDT Partners12 open roles

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12.9% of postings close within 7 days. Measured by our own scanner across the market. PDT Partners postings stay open a median of 2 days.

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PDT Partners median: 2 days open

The posting

At PDT, technology is a core driver of our business. Engineers tackle complex technical and quantitative challenges that advance our research methodology and investment approach.

We hire exceptionally talented engineers and give them room to grow in a dynamic, supportive environment. The people who thrive here value breadth, continuous learning, and long-term investment in their craft. They find energy in growth that comes from rotating through different teams across the organization. This kind of mobility is central to how we work, allowing engineers to build deep, varied skills and make meaningful impact over time.

Our hiring reflects this collaborative culture. We assess every candidate against one talent bar firmwide, then match engineers to the teams that best set them up for success.

As a Software Engineer at PDT, you'll build and maintain the technology that powers our quantitative trading business from the data that drives our models to the systems that execute every trade, and everything in between.

This is a hybrid position and will require the person to work from our London office at minimum 3 days a week

To learn more about the teams hiring, please see a brief description below. We encourage you to apply to learn more about the different opportunities at PDT.

Application Platform

  • Builds and maintains the common infrastructure, including distributed locking, centralized logging, metrics, and container orchestration, to drive automation, reliability, and performance at scale.

Cloud Infrastructure

  • Engineers, architects, and operates PDT’s cloud and research environments, ensuring reliable and scalable infrastructure across the firm.

Data

  • Onboards and manages all external datasets consumed across PDT, building and maintaining the infrastructure to reliably download, parse, and validate data at scale.
  • Develops firm-wide frameworks and serve as a technical resource for researchers.

Post Trade

  • Engineers and maintains the systems that track trades, positions, and PnL, and reconcile the firm's view against brokers and fund administrators at scale.
  • Builds and evolves the reporting infrastructure and internal tooling that accounting, compliance and operational teams depend on.

Software Infrastructure

  • Owns and evolves PDT's core software stack, including packaging, builds, versioning, and CI/CD, while continuously identifying and closing gaps across the developer ecosystem.

Trading Control

  • Engineers the real-time and historical systems that monitor trading activity, including PnL, alerting, and risk, and builds the tools that enable teams to diagnose issues fast and intervene with confidence.

Trading Infrastructure

  • Develops and operates the real-time market data and trading platforms that connect PDT to brokers and venues globally, including order management, exchange connectivity, and execution infrastructure.

Why join us?

PDT Partners has a stellar 30+ year track record and a reputation for excellence. Our goal is to be the best quantitative investment manager in the world measured by the quality of our products, not their size. PDT’s very high employee-retention rate speaks for itself. Our people are intellectually extraordinary, and our community is close-knit, down-to-earth, and diverse.

We want engineers who thrive where creativity and energy drive the solutions. At PDT, you’ll tackle hard problems collaboratively, with the focus, agility, and independence to assess a challenge and act. Your work directly shapes our success. For the right talent, the growth potential is enormous.

Below is a list of skills and experiences we think are relevant. Even if you don’t think you’re a perfect match, we still encourage you to apply because we are committed to developing our people.

  • 3+ years of professional software development experience
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in an Engineering or Applied Sciences field from a rigorous academic program or equivalent professional experience
  • Experience designing scalable and highly reliable software systems
  • Significant experience programming in an object-oriented programming language
  • Experience in and enthusiasm for scoping requirements and collaborating with colleague-clients
  • Knowledge of, or interest in, trading and finance is beneficial, but not required.

PRIVACY STATEMENT: For information on ways PDT may collect, use, and process your personal information, please see PDT’s privacy notices.

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