Compensation

£60K - 120K + Equity

Contract type

Full time

Technologies & frameworks

Lisp
Haskell
scheme
React
PostgreSQL
Clojure

Benefits & perks

Pension
Casual dress
Training
Profit share scheme
Up to 20% bonus
Private healthcare
Work-life balance
Generous profit share scheme
20% yearly bonus
Full-stack clojure development
Full benefit coverage

Transforming Trading with Functional Works

Role overview

Droit is a technology company at the forefront of merging finance and computational law. We build software that digitizes regulations and makes intelligent decisions in real-time transactional systems. Our award-winning platform is providing mission-critical, low-latency services for the world’s most prominent and complex financial institutions.

At Droit we seek candidates who are curious, driven and willing to bring their unique skills and perspectives to our work. We offer the opportunity for employees with a range of experience to develop their skills while shaping our platform and making meaningful contributions to the firm.

What our Software Engineers do:

Software engineers take holistic and collaborative approaches to solving the firm's core business problems. They don’t just write and review code - engineers are responsible for architecting and designing the infrastructure involved with any given project/deliverable and are also responsible for communicating these decisions effectively and clearly.

Here are just some of the projects we're working on:

Business logic and APIs for our core decision engine
Functional-reactive applications
Domain-specific languages and compilers
Parsing laws from heterogeneous sources
Collaborating with our Knowledge Engineering team to research and design new product lines

What we're looking for:

A high degree of curiosity with the ability to ask thoughtful questions and solve challenging problems
The capacity to envision a variety of solutions and to clearly articulate them and explain the trade-offs
The ability to use functional programming to design simple and elegant solutions
A collaborative mind-set that enjoys working with others and knowledge sharing to achieve the best results
An eagerness to give and receive feedback in an open team atmosphere to better the overall result
Practical experience with a functional language such as Clojure, Scheme, Common LISP or Haskell

Any of the following would be an added benefit:

Experience using a RDBMS such as Postgres
Experience Building React applications and RESTful APIs
Experience with proof assistants

A little more about Droit:

Our award-winning platform, Adept, has been in live production since March 2014. A series-A funding in late 2016, led by Goldman Sachs, has further boosted growth. Droit is based out of New York and London.

Droit is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to an innovative, fast-paced and diverse workforce that represents a variety of backgrounds, experiences, perspectives and skills.

Location

London is the capital of the United Kingdom, situated in the South East of the island. The world's largest financial centre, London is also often referred to the culture capital of the world. The city is well-known for its heritage, including Buckingham Palace, the Tower of London, Kew Gardens, Westminster Abbey, and the historic settlement of Greenwich. London Underground is the oldest urban railway network in the world.

Technology workers in London earn 60pc more than the city average, with the figure even higher for foreign born workers, who earned 28pc more than their British counterparts in tech jobs. London can be considered as a center for professional relocation. Furthermore, there are over 100 of Europe's 500 largest companies' headquarters in London.

The city is famous for unpredictable weather. For instance, it could be cold, warm and rainy in one day and it’s often the topic of conversation across the city.

Did you know...

2.5M people, one third of Londoners, are foreign born
40% of Greater London is green space

Droit Financial Technologies

50-249
New York, NY, US

Droit was founded in 2012 by a team of veteran derivative traders, quants, e-commerce specialists and technologists with front-line experience and expertise with products, markets, regulations and systems. Our mission is to provide our clients with robust, enterprise infrastructure facilitating compliant and optimal trading of derivatives and other financial instruments across asset classes, global regulatory regimes, CCP’s and execution platforms Our systems help our clients focus on key aspects of their daily business without distraction while ensuring that they “Trade Right”.