25 of 25 Permanent Proprietary Trading Jobs in the UK

C++ Software Engineer - Relocation to Amsterdam

Hiring Organisation
Elevate Partners
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
C++ Software Engineer | Proprietary Trading | Amsterdam Elevate Partners are partnered with a global leading prop trading firm currently seeking experienced C++ Software Engineers to join their high-performing technology team in Amsterdam. Technology sits at the core of the business, with proprietary systems driving … environments Familiarity with Python scripting Exposure to Docker and Kubernetes environments This is an excellent opportunity to join one of the most technically sophisticated proprietary trading environments globally, working on mission-critical systems alongside some of the strongest engineering and trading talent in the market. ...

Desktop Engineer: £80k + Bonus/benefits (Fintech)

Hiring Organisation
Hunter Bond
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Role: Desktop Engineer Client: Global Trading Firm Salary: £80,000 Location: London We’re partnering with a leading global Proprietary trading firm hiring for a Desktop Engineer to join a highly visible end-user and trading technology team supporting front-office users … stakeholder management skills Nice to Have • PowerShell scripting experience • Windows Server and Active Directory administration • SCCM/Microsoft Endpoint Management experience • Experience within proprietary trading firms, hedge funds, or investment banks Sells • Direct exposure to traders and revenue-generating teams • Join a world-class technology-driven trading ...

Senior Headhunter Quant & Trading Technology

Hiring Organisation
Anson Mccade
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£65,000
consultancy firm, headquartered in the UK with an international footprint. Our Capital Markets Technology practice partners with some of the most sophisticated hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, market makers, and investment banks globally. This role sits within our high-performance Quant & Trading Technology vertical - focused … + uncapped commission (six-figure earnings achievable) • Clear promotional structure with no politics or candidate hoarding • Collaborative culture - no backstabbing, shared success mindset • Strong proprietary database and long-standing client relationships • Central London HQ with global coverage • Experienced leadership team (many consultants here 10+ years) • Opportunity to help scale ...

Application Support Engineer/Developer - Leading Proprietary Trading Firm - London

Hiring Organisation
Mondrian Alpha
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
client, a leading proprietary trading firm, is seeking an elite application support engineer with very strong coding skills to join their team in London. The successful individual will have strong Python coding skills with 5+ years of hands-on experience supporting trading applications within ...

Senior Network Engineer - Leading Proprietary Trading Firm - London

Hiring Organisation
Mondrian Alpha
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
client, a technology-driven global proprietary trading firm, is seeking an experienced Network Engineer to join their team in London. As part of this well-established and highly regarded firm, you'll play a pivotal role in designing, implementing, and maintaining the network infrastructure that underpins … fast-paced financial trading environment. This will involve managing and optimising production infrastructure, collaborating closely with systems administrators and security analysts, and ensuring high availability across colocations, cross-connects, and the broader network estate. The ideal candidate will have at least 5 years of network engineering experience within ...

Senior Software Engineer, Trading Team

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
diagnostics, and post-trade analysis. The ideal candidate has experience building end-to-end systematic trading systems in a hedge fund or proprietary trading environment. We are also highly interested in strong software engineers from technology companies or adjacent domains who have built complex, data … hands-on software engineering experience designing, building and operating systems with high complexity. Prior experience in equity stat-arb in a hedge fund, prop trading or systematic trading environment is strongly preferred. Familiarity with the end-to-end systematic trading stack, including data, research ...

Quantitative Developer, Global Delta One

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
cutting-edge technology, hardware and grid computing and will be given immediate responsibility. How you will make an impact... Design, develop, test and deploy proprietary software solutions for complex algorithmic trading systems Optimize large scale data processing and modelling Collaborate with researchers to translate research-based trading … human-decision based trading strategies and implement algorithmic trades from trading ideas Manage day-to-day technology requirements of our proprietary trading systems and evaluate new technologies to improve on the current stack You will be at home if you have... A degree ...

C++ Engineer - High Frequency Trading

Hiring Organisation
NJF Global Holdings Ltd
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
C++ Engineer - High Frequency Trading A proprietary trading firm is seeking an experienced C++ engineer to contribute to a high-performance trading team. This role is focused on designing and optimizing latency-critical systems that operate in competitive financial markets. Responsibilities: Architect, develop … optimize low-latency trading infrastructure. Analyze and improve system performance at the hardware and software level. Collaborate with traders and researchers to refine execution strategies. Apply advanced optimization techniques to minimize latency and maximize throughput. Requirements: Extensive experience in performance-critical C++ development. Deep understanding of CPU architecture ...

Quantitative Developer

Hiring Organisation
Understanding Recruitment
Location
United Kingdom
Fully Remote 🏦 Low Latency Trading Systems We’re currently hiring a Quant Dev to work on the systems underpinning a global proprietary trading firm. This role sits at the intersection of quantitative research, trading logic, and high-performance C++ engineering, with a strong … focus on building and optimising latency-sensitive trading systems operating under real production load. The environment is highly technical and engineering-driven, with engineers working very closely alongside traders and researchers on live trading infrastructure and strategy development. The Role The trading team ...

Graduate Trading Desk Operations Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Quant Capital
Location
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
Trading Desk Operations Engineer - Summer 2026 start Our client is a top tier global proprietary trading firm that blends advanced technology, quantitative rigour and deep market expertise. It is a place where sharp thinkers thrive. You will work alongside highly capable, intellectually driven people … This environment suits graduates who have excelled academically and want to apply their intelligence in a fast, practical and technical setting. As a Trading Desk Operations Engineer you sit directly within the trading and research group. You support live trading, improve operational workflows ...

Senior Quantitative Developer / Research & Data Eng. - LONDON - UNITED KINGDOM

Hiring Organisation
Park Lane Recruitment Ltd
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£250,000 - £600,000 per annum
Salary Details: Annual Salary - £250,000 - £600,000 Other Compensation - Base + Bonus Job Description Quantitative Developer/Senior Research & Data Engineer - Systematic Trading (London) About the Opportunity An established quantitative investment organization managing multi-billion-dollar assets is expanding its London engineering team. The firm combines … communication skills Preferred Experience Successful candidates will typically have experience in one or more of the following environments: Quantitative hedge funds Systematic investment firms Proprietary trading firms Electronic trading organizations High-performance engineering teams within leading technology companies Additional experience with the following is highly ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Understanding Recruitment
Location
United Kingdom
Engineer 📍 Fully Remote 🏦 Low Latency Trading Infrastructure We’re currently hiring Senior C++ Engineers to work on the systems underpinning a global proprietary trading firm. This is a backend engineering role focused on building and optimising low-latency infrastructure operating under real production load. … work sits close to the trading side of the business and centres around performance, reliability, throughput, and systems scalability. The environment is highly technical and engineering-driven, with a strong focus on solving complex infrastructure and optimisation problems. The Role You’ll be working on the core systems ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Platform Recruitment Limited
Location
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, East Anglia, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Senior Software Engineer - Up to £250,000 - Cambridge Title : Senior Software Engineer Company : Proprietary HFT Location : Cambridge (Hybrid) Pay : Up to £250,000 with huge potential to increase Company : A proprietary trading firm in Cambridge, specialising in the research and development of ultra-low-latency automated … trading strategies, are looking for a Software Engineer with a demonstrable background of delivering complex projects from a concept through to delivery. It is important that you have been involved in the entire software development life cycle (SDLC), as this dynamic role will require you to rapidly prototype ...

Senior Network Engineer - WAN + Security + Automation : Trading Firm : CCIE

Hiring Organisation
Hunter Bond
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
elite global hedge fund are now seeking a Senior Network Engineer to work on 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 a bleeding edge Cisco environment. What you'll be doing: Design, deploy and troubleshoot global network infrastructure Design ...

C++ Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Durlston Partners
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
C++ Software Engineer – High-Frequency Trading Looking for a C++ Engineer with strong commercial experience in low latency or ultra-low latency systems, to join a systematic trading firm operating at the cutting edge of high-frequency trading. Role Overview: You will work across the full … systems Deep understanding of multithreading, memory management, and systems-level performance tuning Solid Linux development background and familiarity with networking protocols Prior HFT or proprietary trading experience is a strong advantage, though not essential for exceptional engineers from adjacent fields such as networking, gaming, or real-time ...

Graduate Quantitative Developer

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
DeepFin is a systematic proprietary trading firm combining deep learning, traditional quantitative research methods, and cutting‐edge trading technology, to trade global markets. Founded by engineers and researchers, we build and deploy advanced trading systems that operate across global markets. Our team … Research, Productionise Research (C++/Python) Role Overview We’re hiring a junior Quant Developer to help productionise research into robust, high‐performance trading systems. You’ll work closely with Quant Researchers and senior engineers to convert Python research code into production C++, build and optimise backtesting/ ...

Machine Learning Performance Engineer New London, England, United Kingdom

Hiring Organisation
Jobleads-UK
Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Markets is a leading algorithmic trading firm which uses state‐of‐the‐art machine learning technology to produce price forecasts for over 50,000 financial instruments across equities, fixed income, currencies, commodities, and crypto. It uses those forecasts to trade on exchanges and alternative trading venues … computational techniques, and state‐of‐the‐art research infrastructure to analyse large data sets across markets quickly and efficiently, maximizing the effectiveness of our proprietary trading algorithms. We are actively seeking new methods and ideas. The models that drive our trading strategies have evolved considerably ...

Senior Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Harrington Starr
Location
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
Senior C# Engineer City of London (On-site) Permanent | £90,000 – £120,000 We’re partnered with an innovative proprietary trading firm in the City of London that is hiring a Senior C# Software Engineer . You’ll work on greenfield projects, cutting-edge technology, and play … part in shaping systems that directly influence trading performance. Key Benefits Competitive salary with a strong benefits package Work on greenfield projects where your ideas genuinely shape the outcome Exposure to the latest .NET technologies in a high-performance trading environment Clear opportunities for career growth ...

Lead Product Engineer (Top Proprietary Trading Firm)

Hiring Organisation
Radley James
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
We're working with a leading crypto-native technology company looking for a hands-on Product Engineering Team Lead. This isn't a middle-management role. You'll lead a small team of engineers while ...

Machine Learning Quant - Start Up

Hiring Organisation
Anson Mccade
Location
Central London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
They are aiming to launch next year and are currently hiring in Miami, London and Milan. Description -- Role: expected to contribute to production grade proprietary trading systems, deploy state of the art AI/ML, develop novel AI/ML models, experiment with and develop novel trading ...

AI Operations Associate / Graduate AI Builder

Hiring Organisation
Acquire Me
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
hiring! We are a specialist tech recruiting firm connecting STEM talent with the world’s most renowned scientific-led quantitative hedge funds, proprietary trading firms and high-growth start-ups. We are looking for a junior, graduate or intern-level AI Operations Associate/AI Builder ...

Junior C# Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Quant Capital
Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Junior C# Developer Trading Systems £80,000 Plus Bonus + yearly Ski Trip Quant Capital is urgently looking for a Junior C# Developer with experience of Trading or Financial Services to join our high profile client. I am looking 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 ...

Software Developer - Executions (C++) - London - Up to £185k base + uncapped bonus

Hiring Organisation
Hunter Bond
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Location: London About the Company : Our client is a leading global exchange specialising in FX and digital asset markets, delivering cutting-edge electronic trading solutions. Their platform underpins advanced trading infrastructure, handling significant volumes of market data and execution activity in fast-moving, complex global environments. … time, or low-latency distributed systems Background in FX, crypto, or electronic trading environments (exchange, market-making, HFT, or quant/prop trading highly valued) Strong understanding of concurrency, network programming, and high-level systems design Some leadership experience —mentoring engineers or leading technical initiatives ...

Software Engineer (Prop Trading Firm)

Hiring Organisation
Radley James
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
global trading firm looking for a DeFi developer to join a small, highly technical trading team building high-performance systems that operate directly on decentralized markets. The role is hands-on and focused on building production systems in Rust and Python, covering execution, on-chain integrations … performance-critical components where latency and reliability are key. There is strong end-to-end ownership and clear visibility across the full trading stack. They are looking for someone with a solid software engineering background and several years of experience (typically around 3–7). Experience with trading ...

Quantitative Developer

Hiring Organisation
Fionics
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Quantitative Developer - London/Remote 40+ leading quant firms seeking top-tier developers. Multiple immediate openings. What you'll do: Build low-latency trading systems and infrastructure Develop quantitative libraries and research platforms Optimize execution algorithms and risk systems Requirements: 2+ years quant dev or HFT experience Expert … systems knowledge Our network: Pay: $180K-$2M+ based on experience Locations: London, Remote Focus: Ultra-low latency, systematic platforms, research infrastructure From prop trading tech to systematic fund platforms. Ready to build the future of trading? Apply now for confidential discussions. ...