Software Engineer, Quantile Energy
Algorithmic Energy Trading
£40-75k
+ Participation in Employee equity programme
3+ days a week in office
Data-driven energy trading company
Posted today
Data-driven energy trading company
1-20 employees
Posted today
£40-75k
+ Participation in Employee equity programme
3+ days a week in office
1-20 employees
Company mission
Reinventing systematic energy trading with code, not gut feel.
Role
Who you are
- Software Engineering Experience: Proven track record of building and operating production-grade systems
- Python: With a focus on writing clear, maintainable, and tested code - this is where most of your day-to-day work will be
- Databases: Practical experience designing and evolving database schemas, including managing migrations with tools like Alembic
- Monitoring & Reliability: Experience with observability, production monitoring, debugging live issues, and designing systems that fail safely
- Ownership & Collaboration: A proactive, collaborative working style, comfortable partnering closely with both traders and engineers, and taking full ownership of the systems you build
Desirable
- Systems Engineering Language: Proficiency with systems-level programming languages e.g. Rust
- Data Streaming: Experience working with high-throughput data streaming systems e.g. rabbitmq/NATS
- High-Performance Systems: Experience building real-time, latency-sensitive platforms, such as exchange connectivity or streaming data pipelines
- Observability Stack: Familiarity with modern observability stacks and tracing eg OTEL
What the job involves
- Build reliable, production-grade systems in Python-our primary language across the stack, from data and strategy code to operational tooling
- Contribute to our low-latency trading engine, written in Rust. Order management, exchange connectivity, market data handling, and risk controls
- Develop and maintain real-time data pipelines (RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, DuckDB), infrastructure (including Kubernetes and ArgoCD), and cloud deployment tooling
- Collaborate with Quant Traders to turn strategy ideas into robust, deployed systems
Application process
- A 30-minute video call on Google Meet to get to know our Founding Software Engineer, Max, or CTO & Co-Founder, Michael
- A 40-minute video call with our tech team, starting with a 10-minute presentation on a project you’ve worked on, either professionally or in your free time. We’ll ask you to walk us through what you built, your role in the project, and some of the technical decisions you made
- A 90-minute technical interview with our tech team. You’ll work through a coding and architecture problem during a 60-minute session, with your camera off so you can focus on the task. We encourage you to ask questions, clarify requirements, and discuss your thinking or seek guidance as you work through the problem
- An in-person opportunity to get to know members of our trading, quant, and tech teams, and for us to get to know you
Our take
As energy trading becomes more complex, traditional methods of building and implementing strategies are failing to keep up with the market. Quantile Energy exists to combat this, bringing automation and data-driven decision making to the forefront of this space.
At Quantile Energy, every strategy is written as code. Traders and developers work together to design and deploy these strategies, which rely on every decision being logged and every outcome being analysed. This robust approach means everything is traceable, which importantly centres both accountability and precision in the process.
As a young company, Quantile Energy still has much to build, and a strong team will be central to achieving its vision. We look forward to watching the company develop as it brings to life an exciting solution that has every chance to upheave the realm of energy trading.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Company benefits
- Participation in Employee equity programme
- Vitality Health Insurance
- Additional day of annual leave for your birthday
- Free lunch Friday and fully stocked fridge
- Competitive salary with regular reviews + Pension Plan contributions
- Regular company funded socials
Company values
- Fully Systematic & Accountable - We run 100% systematic strategies, where every decision is logged and every outcome analyzed. Precision and accountability drive everything we do
- One Team, One Flow - Our Quant Traders and Quant Developers work as a single unit; designing, coding, and deploying together for maximum efficiency and insight
- At Quantile Energy, every trading strategy is written as code, making each decision transparent and traceable so every step can be understood and verified.
- Optimized for Focus - We automate repetitive workflows and operations so our team can concentrate on high-impact strategy development and smarter forecasting
Company HQ
City Centre, Oxford, UK
Leadership
Matthew Bird
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously co-founded and was Head of Trading at Pure Power Trading. Was also Head of Short Term Trading at Habitat Energy, UK Power and Gas Trader at ENGIE, and Commercial Manager at Peak Gen Power.
Rasmus H. Millfors
(Co-Founder & COO)Prior to his career in energy, Rasmus built and scaled complex businesses across multiple sectors, including co-founding Pure Power Trading. He now leads our HR, Finance and Operations functions.
Michael
(Co-Founder and CTO)People progressing
Joined Quantile Energy as its first hire. Promoted to Founding Engineer & Partner within a year, now leading the real-time trading platform and infrastructure across multiple domains.
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