1 to 25 of 27 Backtesting Jobs in the UK

Quant Developer OTC Pricing

Hiring Organisation
James Joseph Associates Limited
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
alongside quantitative researchers to analyse large datasets and translate research into production-ready solutions Use Python for model prototyping, data analysis, signal investigation and backtesting activity Develop and improve pricing skew, spread and liquidity optimisation logic Design and implement automated hedging strategies, taking into account execution risk, liquidity and market ...

Quantitative Developer

Hiring Organisation
Radley James
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
turn ideas and models into robust, scalable software used in research and live trading. This includes building tools and workflows for data analysis, backtesting, and production trading systems, as well as owning and supporting critical components throughout their lifecycle. What they’re looking for • Degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics ...

Quantitative Developer

Hiring Organisation
IT Search & Select
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£100,000 - £130,000 per annum
traders, and the CTO to deliver clean, robust, production-ready code that directly supports live trading. Key Responsibilities Develop and maintain quant research infrastructure , backtesting frameworks, and simulation tools Build data pipelines for market, alternative, and proprietary datasets Implement and optimise systematic trading models in collaboration with researchers Improve execution ...

Quantitative Developer – Up to £200,000 + Bonus + Benefits

Hiring Organisation
Hunter Bond
Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Develop and enhance Python-based research and trading platforms Implement, optimise, and productionise trading models and signals alongside Quants Build robust data pipelines, backtesting frameworks, and analytics tools Improve performance, scalability, and reliability of live trading systems 🌟 Why This Role Stands Out 💼 Front-Office Exposure – Work directly with ...

Senior C++ Developer

Hiring Organisation
Harrington Starr
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
precision matter. The Opportunity You’ll work on the firm’s core trading technology stack, helping design and optimise the infrastructure used for research, backtesting and live execution whilst also taking on the role of mentoring some graduate engineers. The role suits someone with strong systems-level engineering capability ...

Junior C# Quant Developer - Hybrid London (Mentorship & Impact)

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
maintaining high-performance C# applications used across research, risk management, and live trading. • Collaborating with quants to implement complex pricing models and robust backtesting frameworks. • Enhancing data processing pipelines and contributing to the continuous performance optimization of internal systems. • Gaining deep exposure to financial markets, electronic trading systems, and quantitative ...

Engineering Team Lead/Manager

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
philosophy, Smarkets is where you belong. The Team The Pricing team owns the technology which powers our trading strategies – including connecting to trading exchanges, backtesting strategies, and managing order flow. They work closely with our quant trading team to implement the underlying services which drive our revenue generation. Recently ...

Core Engineer (C++)

Hiring Organisation
NJF Global Holdings Ltd
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
latency, throughput, and determinism across highly concurrent systems Working on market data capture, normalisation, and internal distribution at scale Building and evolving simulation and backtesting infrastructure used by researchers and traders Going deep on memory behaviour, data structures, and concurrency models Collaborating closely with traders and researchers on strategy ...

Quantitative Researcher

Hiring Organisation
Anson Mccade
Location
Central London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
/Responsibilities: Perform rigorous and innovative research to discover systematic anomalies in equity markets End-to-end development: alpha idea generation, data processing, strategy backtesting, optimization, and production implementation Identify and evaluate new datasets for stock return predictions Maintain and improve the portfolio trading in the production environment Requirements ...

Python Quant Dev - Cash Equities/Algo/Backtesting/Trading/Market Making

Hiring Organisation
Scope AT Limited
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP Annual
Python Quant Dev - Cash Equities/Algo/Backtesting/Trading/Market Making Responsibilities Research and analyse trading outcomes to assess effectiveness of execution strategies Build and refine quantitative models to improve algorithmic trading performance Implement elements of trading logic in Python and work closely with engineering teams Partner ...

Senior Market Data Engineer

Hiring Organisation
NJF Global Holdings Ltd
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
responsibilities include: Partnering with research and quant teams to deliver insights from tick-by-tick market data Serving high-quality data to large-scale backtesting and research platforms Building and maintaining tick data pipelines in Python to enable fast, reliable access across asset classes Designing, implementing, and monitoring robust data ...

Senior Machine Learning Scientist (Experiences)

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
using techniques like quantization and distillation. Operational Frameworks & Rigor: Tailor Golden Datasets and leaderboards with minimal supervision, and implement rigorous validation automation (such as backtesting and slice-based evaluation) to prevent data leakage, over‐fitting, and production regressions. Engineering Partnership & Handovers: Collaborate closely with Engineering Leads to ensure compute/ ...

Quantitative Trading & Research - Global Clearing - Vice President

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
products; define multi‐quarter roadmaps and drive continuous improvement. Lead end‐to‐end initiatives—from problem framing and hypothesis design through prototyping, backtesting, and scalable production deployment—partnering with Trading, QR peers, Technology, and Product to deliver measurable business impact. Design and enhance margin and derivative models, including methodology selection … calibration, numerical schemes, benchmarking/backtesting, documentation, and alignment with model risk governance. Serve as model owner: manage roadmaps, controls, monitoring/alerts, change management, and responses to Model Risk, Audit, and regulatory reviews; ensure explainability and transparency of assumptions, limitations, and model performance. Build and productionize analytics that advance ...

Lead Engineer, Risk Technology

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
About Bullish Bullish is an institutionally focused global digital asset platform that provides market infrastructure and information services. These include: Bullish Exchange – a regulated and institutionally focused digital assets spot and derivatives exchange integrating a ...

Senior C# Developer FX Options Risk

Hiring Organisation
Reed
Location
Central London, London, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Temporary
Salary
£900 - £925 per day, Inc benefits
Pricing Services and Risk Viewer UI Developer We are seeking a highly skilled Pricing Services and Risk Viewer UI Developer to join our dynamic team. This senior software development position requires excellent C# and TypeScript ...

Senior Python Quantitative Developer - Central Risk & Backtesting Platform - Quant Hedge Fund

Hiring Organisation
Winston Fox
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
Systematic Hedge Fund in a brand-new Core team designing and implementing a greenfield centralised Python/SQL/Linux/Docker platform for Backtesting, Pricing, Risk and Performance to be used across all Funds and Investment teams. Our client is an early Quantitative Investment Firm, managing around $10BN+ … Primarily, you will be charged with delivering and maintaining critical components of the investment infrastructure, including the Data Interface Layer, Central Risk Calculations, and Backtesting Frameworks which will be a key tool for the Investment teams. Essential Skills & Experience: Excellent Quant Development and Python skills, as per 3+ years ...

Senior Front Office Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Castleton Commodities International (www.cci.com) is redefining how data and technology drive the future of global energy trading. Our Data Science & Technology team is at the forefront of this evolution, designing powerful systems and innovative tools ...

Quant Developer

Hiring Organisation
TXP
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
Up to £55 per hour
DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, Entra ID Monitoring: Datadog Optimisation: CPLEX Data & APIs: EATT API, AIDA What You'll Be Delivering AWS Fargate-based backtesting infrastructure Rust-based orchestration UI Integration of optimisation models (CPLEX) External data provisioning and ingestion services Reproducible and auditable backtesting frameworks Requirements (Must-Have) Proven ...

Senior Data Scientist - Big Data R&D, Identity Graph & KYC

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
United Kingdom
Why Socure? Socure is building the identity trust infrastructure for the digital economy — verifying 100% of good identities in real time and stopping fraud before it starts. The mission is big, the problems are complex ...

Quantitative Developer

Hiring Organisation
Fionics
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
Quant Developer — C++/Python (Backtesting & Research Production) London | Full-time | On-site Systematic prop firm combining deep learning and quantitative research to trade global markets. Small, technical team — every hire directly impacts strategy and P&L. The Role Translate Python research into production C++. Build and optimise backtesting/ ...

SAS Model Developer

Hiring Organisation
TXP
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£400 - £401 per day
SAS Model Developer Location: London (Hybrid - 2 days onsite per week) Rate: £400/day Inside IR35 Duration: 3-month rolling contract Overview: We're looking for an experienced SAS Model Developer to support model ...

(Quant) Developer - Orchestrade

Hiring Organisation
Finna Group
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
A high-quality hedge fund is building out its quantitative risk and portfolio analytics capability and is looking to hire a Quant/Quant Developer with Orchestrade experience to work directly with the Head of ...

Senior Low Latency Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Senior Low Latency Engineer Engineer the future of global finance. At Citi, our Tech team doesn’t just support finance – we are helping to redefine it. Every day, $5 trillion crosses through our network. We ...

Quantitative Developer

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Your Opportunity Partner with asset allocation PMs and researchers to take ideas from notebook to production: signals, CMAs, optimization, portfolio construction, rebalancing rules, and attribution. Build and extend the team's research platform: data ingestion ...