Build the platform behind QTE
Technology develops the systems that make the main exchange and its options market work. The arm holds no trading positions and belongs to no trading team. Its focus is the shared platform that supports participants across the organisation. Unlike the trading arms, Technology runs as one team rather than several competing desks.
What you can work on
Core services include market-data processing, order-book construction, the matching engine and risk gateway. User-facing work includes trading screens, option chains, order blotters, portfolio views and the ticket system that routes orders from Fundamentals to their assigned Execution desk.
Research and analytics work covers risk displays, pricing and Greeks, the strategy runtime and its API, the backtester, recorded-session archives, metrics and leaderboards. These components need to work together so that a trading decision can be traced from submission to its eventual result.
The boundary with trading teams
Technology builds the tools that every team needs, so a trading team's own developers spend their time on strategy and signals rather than building dashboards or pricing libraries from scratch. Developers within trading arms build their own signals, models, quoting logic and execution algorithms on top of that infrastructure. This gives Technology broad ownership of the platform while keeping trading research within the individual teams.
Engineering with consequences
The exchange design emphasises deterministic behaviour and reproducible results. Orders, risk checks, fills and performance calculations need consistent handling and records that support replay. The work involves testing, debugging, documenting interfaces and improving systems in response to the students who use them.
Who this suits
Students interested in software engineering, data systems, numerical tools or interfaces for live decision-making. The project offers opportunities to connect individual components into a working system used by other teams. Detailed role allocations are provided through the recruitment process.
Team structure
1 team ยท 8 members total