20 of 20 Permanent Market Making Jobs in Berkshire

Java Developer – FX Low Latency Market Making A leading hedge fund with a global presence, specialising in quantitative trading and market making across multiple asset classes is seeking a highly skilled Senior Java Developer to join their rapidly expanding FX business to help design and build ultra-low-latency trading systems that power their … electronic market making strategies. The Role As a Senior Java Developer in an FX market making team, you will play a key role in designing, implementing, and optimising cutting-edge trading systems. You will work closely with quantitative researchers, traders, and infrastructure teams to deliver software that operates at microsecond latencies, scales globally, and … competitive edge in the markets. Key Responsibilities Design, develop, and maintain low-latency, high-throughput trading platforms in Java. Collaborate with quants and traders to translate market making strategies into robust, production-ready code. Optimise code and infrastructure for latency, performance, and reliability. Build and maintain connectivity to FX ECNs, liquidity providers, and venues. Implement monitoring, diagnostics More ❯

Trade Support Engineer | Production Support | Market Making London | £200,000 – £300,000 (Base + Performance Bonus) | 4 Days in Office We’re working with a leading market-making firm seeking an experienced Trade Support Engineer to join their London team. This is a hands-on, front-office support role within a fast-paced trading … ensuring uptime, data integrity, and low-latency performance. Monitor, troubleshoot, and tune Linux-based production environments, identifying and resolving issues to maintain optimal system performance. Manage and validate market data feeds to guarantee timely and accurate information delivery. Develop and maintain Python scripts and automation tools to streamline operational workflows and reduce manual intervention. Collaborate closely with traders … time trading environments. Solid understanding of market data sources (Bloomberg, Refinitiv/Reuters, ICE, etc.). Prior exposure to electronic trading, execution platforms, or market-making systems. Excellent communication and problem-solving skills; able to perform effectively under pressure in a front-office environment. Compensation & Benefits Total Compensation: £200,000 – £300,000 (Base + Performance More ❯

Head of Infrastructure – Trading Technology London – Hybrid £Competitive + Bonus Quant Capital is working with a global market-making firm looking for a Head of Infrastructure to lead the buildout and evolution of its trading platform across cloud and on-prem environments. This is a senior technical leadership role with full ownership of infrastructure strategy, delivery, and … and deployment with IaC (CloudFormation/Terraform/Ansible) Scale monitoring, cost optimisation and system reliability in production Background 7+ years in infrastructure leadership within trading, market-making or high-performance engineering environments Strong AWS architecture and hybrid (cloud + on-prem) experience Deep networking background: routing, switching, low-latency connectivity Strong understanding of reliability engineering and … Infrastructure Engineer with some light management and leadership skills to step into a Head role for a growing but small team and within a fast-paced market making business. More ❯

Our client is a leading Crypto Market Making firm in Algorithmic and Systematic Trading. They are currently seeking a DeFi Security Engineer for their London office. This role focuses on supporting the security of their Crypto trading infrastructure and OTC platform Responsibilities: Conduct vulnerability assessments, threat modeling, and penetration testing across infrastructure, smart contracts, and OTC-specific More ❯

We are looking for a Software Engineer to the Ultra-Low Latency (ULL) Market Making team within this rapidly expanding Prop Trading firm based in London. This is a hands-on engineering role at the frontier of high-performance trading systems What You’ll Do Design and implement modern C++ (C++20/23) applications for ultra-low … level to minimize latency and maximize throughput. Engineer and maintain Linux-based systems tuned for high-frequency trading workloads. Develop and refine TCP/IP networking solutions for market connectivity. Collaborate with traders, researchers, and engineers to deliver robust, production-ready systems. Explore opportunities to integrate AI/ML techniques into trading workflows, from signal generation to system … impacts performance and profitability. Collaborate with a world-class team of engineers, traders, and researchers. Push the boundaries of system-level optimization, hardware acceleration, and AI integration . Market leading compensation, benefits, and a culture that rewards innovation and technical mastery. If you’re passionate about building ultra-fast systems and excited by the challenge of combining software More ❯

We are representing a cutting-edge Prop trading firm that is redefining market-making and liquidity provision in Crypto markets. Our client operates at the intersection of blockchain, algorithmic and automated trading, and distributed systems, and is seeking a Lead Systems Engineer to architect and scale the infrastructure behind their high-performance Crypto operations. Role Overview As More ❯

role where you’ll work closely with traders and developers to build cutting-edge, high-performance trading systems - leveraging big data and algorithmic models to analyse and predict market behaviour in real time. They’re looking for switched-on engineers who can … tackle complex problems and deliver business-critical, high-visibility projects in a fast-paced, front-office environment. Key Responsibilities Design, develop, and support pricing, eTrading, and market-making systems. Collaborate with traders, sales, and quants to deliver performant, data-driven solutions. Enhance trading algorithms, data pipelines, and market connectivity. Integrate trading systems with upstream trade More ❯

Job title: C++ Software Engineer Client: Elite Algorithmic Market Making Firm Salary: £70,000 - £350,000 Base (+ Bonus) Location: London/Hybrid My client are seeking a C++ Software Engineer who will play a critical role in developing and optimizing high-frequency trading systems, ensuring they operate at peak performance with minimal latency. This is an More ❯

working on our front-office pricing and trading platform. This is a hands-on role focused on building and maintaining distributed backend systems that support our market-making business across multiple asset classes — including Equities, FX, Crypto, and Commodities . What You’ll Do: Design, develop, and maintain backend infrastructure, microservices, APIs, and business logic for our … Terraform/CI-CD pipelines . Why Join CMC Markets? Work on high-performance trading systems that have global impact. Collaborate with a team of passionate technologists and market experts. Be part of a company that values innovation, integrity, and excellence . Enjoy a supportive culture with opportunities for career growth and development . *** Please note that this More ❯

Software Engineer Location: London Experience: 2–7 Years Industry: Market Making/Proprietary Trading/Capital Markets **Please note applicants coming from a buy side/trading/capital markets background will be given a strong preference** Looking for software engineers to join a small but highly skilled, and collaborative, bringing together expert traders and software engineers. More ❯

Software Engineer Location: London Experience: 5–7 Years Industry: Market Making/Proprietary Trading/Capital Markets **Please note applicants coming from a buy side/trading/capital markets background will be given a strong preference** Looking for software engineers to join a small but highly skilled, and collaborative, bringing together expert traders and software engineers. More ❯

A leading crypto market-making and trading firm is seeking a Senior Data Engineer/Data Architect with strong financial markets experience to lead the design and evolution of its core data platform. The role involves building scalable, reliable data systems supporting risk, P&L, regulatory reporting, and analytics across spot and derivatives trading. You’ll work … Office, Risk, Finance, Operations and Compliance, taking hands-on ownership of the firm’s data architecture and infrastructure. Key Responsibilities Design and evolve core data models covering trade, market, pricing, risk and finance data across streaming, lake/lakehouse and warehouse environments. Build and maintain streaming and batch pipelines to capture, reconcile and deliver trusted market … or Finance. Strong programming in Python, Java and SQL (Rust a plus). Proven experience building streaming and batch ETL/ELT pipelines at scale. Strong understanding of market/trade data lifecycles and time series concepts. Experience with AWS and cloud-native data services. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. Desirable Experience with crypto or digital asset More ❯

Join a leading options market maker with a global trading footprint! Position : Cloud Platform Engineer Industry : Financial services Work Type : Full-time, On-site Location : London, UK Salary : Up to £70,000 basic salary What You’ll Be Doing: Build and scale a cloud foundation, including networking, IAM, security, and “everything as code” with Terraform/Terramate. Implement More ❯

at junior engineers keen on learning back office and settlement systems before moving into trading development. Our client is a well known hedge fund, Prop trading business and market maker. They are 80 people in London and have a family feel. They run around £1 billion. This role will involve supporting and developing a back office settlement and More ❯

Trade Application Support Engineer Location: London Experience: 1–7 Years Industry: Market Making/Proprietary Trading/Capital Markets **Applicants who come from should come from a buy side/trading/capital markets environment will be given strong preference** Responsibilities Act as the first point of escalation for any technical issues arising from the trading system More ❯

it’s trading infrastructure. To apply, you will ideally be CCIE qualified with a strong background in low latency and multicast networks. Our client is a leading global market maker with an emphasis on technology to match. They seek an experienced profile who would look to build ultra-fast and reliable connectivity to proprietary trading technology, invariably around More ❯

Head of Infrastructure Location: London Experience: 7+ Years Industry: Market Making/Proprietary Trading/Capital Markets **Strong preference will be given to applicants from a buy side/trading/capital markets background** A leading trading firm is seeking an experienced Head of Infrastructure to lead and scale its UK and global trading infrastructure. This senior More ❯

Senior Quant Trader - DeFi/On-Chain Trading A leading digital asset trading firm, seeks an experienced Quant Trader to lead high-frequency, market-neutral strategies in decentralized markets. The Role: Own the complete strategy lifecycle in on-chain trading—research, development, and execution. Access proprietary infrastructure, tools, and capital to drive results in this rapidly growing space. … You'll Do: Design latency-sensitive, market-neutral trading strategies for blockchain Build automated algorithms interacting with smart contracts and DEXs Analyze … blockchain data to identify profitable opportunities Develop risk frameworks for volatile crypto markets You Have: 6+ years running HFT/prop trading strategies end-to-end Market-making or latency-sensitive trading experience Strong programming skills for high-performance trading Quantitative analysis expertise with complex datasets You Get: Competitive base + performance bonuses Complete strategy ownership and More ❯

Trading Software Engineer - Systematic Market Maker Location: London (onsite 4 days) £375k++ total compensation Quant capital is urgently looking for a Software Developer to join a prestigious market maker. This role sits in a highly autonomous engineering team building performance-critical trading systems that power both OTC and exchange-based strategies across global markets. You’ll … those who have been working on high performance systems at the very highest level. The Role This is a hands-on dev position focused on building pricing engines, market connectivity, execution logic, and real-time controls. You'll work directly with researchers and analysts, deploying models into production and designing architecture that balances performance and flexibility. Key Responsibilities … Build and maintain low-latency trading platforms across asset classes Design pricing and risk logic, market data processing, and order handling Optimise data flow and system throughput under real-time constraints Implement core components in Kotlin (some C++ and legacy Python/Java) Engineer for reliability, testing, monitoring and rapid fault recovery What You'll Bring Solid command More ❯

Head of Operations – Algorithmic Trading Location: London (quant-driven electronic market maker) Overview: A senior strategic leadership role at a leading quantitative trading firm that uses machine learning and data-driven intelligence to provide liquidity across global financial markets. The firm values strategic thinking, resilience, and innovation over speed alone — focusing on smarter, predictive trading systems. Purpose of … firms. Expert-level skills in Linux/Unix , distributed systems, and FIX protocol . Hands-on with IaC tools (Terraform, Puppet, etc.) and modern automation. Strong grasp of market microstructure, order flow, and risk management . Exceptional communicator with strategic influence across technical and executive teams. Desirable: Background in quantitative trading or software engineering . Familiarity with AI More ❯