At a Glance
- Tasks: Own and optimise our trading platform, ensuring reliability and performance in live markets.
- Company: Join Axon Labs, a cutting-edge systematic trading and research lab.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, performance bonuses, and equity in a pioneering company.
- Other info: Dynamic environment with opportunities for growth and collaboration.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in finance with innovative tech and high-performance engineering.
- Qualifications: Strong AWS experience, Python skills, and a passion for low-latency systems.
The predicted salary is between 80000 - 100000 £ per year.
Axon Labs is a next-generation systematic trading and research lab. We combine machine learning, neuroscience-inspired architectures (the Axon Cognitive Architecture), and high-performance engineering to build decision engines that run in live markets, where reliability and precision translate directly into performance. We are already live, with multiple strategies running in production across venues on infrastructure we built ourselves: real-time data ingestion, low-latency messaging, research compute, and monitoring.
What we don't yet have is one engineer who owns that platform end to end:
- Reliable systems for live trading, multi-venue market data ingestion, and research compute
- Deployment pipelines that ship strategy and model changes quickly and safely
- Observability across data quality, execution, strategy, and infrastructure
- The path from research prototype to production service, with real testing and monitoring
- IAM, networking, secrets, access control
- ML-serving infrastructure: low-latency model serving, feature pipelines, and experiment tooling
Requirements:
- Experience at Shaw, Two Sigma, Hudson River, Optiver, XTX, Citadel, an exchange or market-infrastructure business, or a top infra team at a serious technology company
- Deep Linux and networking fundamentals
- Strong cloud experience, ideally AWS (compute, networking, IAM, storage, observability)
- Strong Python; C++, Rust, or Go for latency-critical paths is a plus
- Data systems: PostgreSQL / TimescaleDB, Kafka, Redis, ClickHouse, low-latency messaging
- Monitoring: Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, or similar
Bonus: Competitive salary, a performance-linked bonus, and meaningful founding equity.
Senior AWS Engineer/Platform Engineer | in City of London employer: Axon Labs
Axon Labs is an exceptional employer for those seeking to make a significant impact in the world of systematic trading and high-performance engineering. With a strong focus on innovation, our collaborative work culture fosters continuous learning and growth, providing employees with opportunities to develop their skills in cutting-edge technologies like AWS and machine learning. Located in a vibrant tech hub, we offer competitive salaries, performance-linked bonuses, and meaningful equity, ensuring that our team members are rewarded for their contributions to our pioneering projects.
