1 to 25 of 29 Algorithmic Trading Jobs in London

AVP Quantitative Developer

Hiring Organisation
Alexander Chapman
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Quant Developer – Algorithmic Trading | London We’re hiring for an AVP Quant Developer to join a leading global investment bank in London, working directly on high-performance algorithmic trading systems in a front-office environment. This team is responsible for building and enhancing latency … technology Strong career progression within a top-tier institution High-visibility, front-office work in London If you’re passionate about algo trading, low-latency systems, and real market impact , feel free to message me directly for more details. ...

Product Strategist - fixed income E-trading

Hiring Organisation
Campion Pickworth
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
market structure-driven enhancements Translate trading desk requirements into clear functional specifications The Fixed Income eTrading Programme covers three core areas: Algorithmic trading and platform architecture modernisation Product development across Bonds and Interest Rate Derivatives Regulatory compliance and market structure enhancements Required Experience & Skills: Proven … within Fixed Income trading Strong domain knowledge of: Fixed Income products (Bonds, Rates, Credit, IRDs) Electronic trading platforms and workflows Algorithmic trading and market making Experience working in capital markets/investment banking environments Excellent stakeholder management across front office, technology, and quantitative ...

Pricing Algo Java Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Stanford Black Limited
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
base I am looking for experienced Java engineers to join one of Europe’s top-tier fixed-income algorithmic trading desks. The role involves building a greenfield execution system from the ground up, spanning five core business domains, with a strong focus on performance, reliability, and clean … derivatives, and understand the value of an intuitive, robust and reliable eTrading systems to a trading desk. Key Responsibilities: Develop sophisticated algorithmic trading strategies using quantitative methods and statistical analysis Implement and optimize execution algorithms to improve trading efficiency and reduce market impact ...

Infrastructure Engineer (Algorithmic Trading Firm)

Hiring Organisation
Hamilton Barnes 🌳
Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
supporting a growing algorithmic trading firm that’s looking to hire a Systems support engineer to join its highly experienced Infrastructure team. This is a hands-on role supporting a mixed physical and virtual environment, with a focus on the desktop and end-user computing estate within ...

Senior UI Developer

Hiring Organisation
McGregor Boyall Associates Limited
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
This role sits within a strategic e-trading function responsible for the front-end experience of electronic FX market-making, pricing, and algorithmic trading platforms. You'll work closely with FX Trading and Sales, shaping UI strategy for both internal and client-facing … degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline Desirable Backend experience in Java or C# Experience working in electronic FX, market making, or algo trading Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools while maintaining engineering standards Strong attention to detail and product mindset Why Apply? Front-office role with ...

Senior UI Developer

Hiring Organisation
McGregor Boyall
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£120,000 - £150,000 per annum
This role sits within a strategic e-trading function responsible for the front-end experience of electronic FX market-making, pricing, and algorithmic trading platforms. You'll work closely with FX Trading and Sales, shaping UI strategy for both internal and client-facing … degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline Desirable Backend experience in Java or C# Experience working in electronic FX, market making, or algo trading Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools while maintaining engineering standards Strong attention to detail and product mindset Why Apply? Front-office role with ...

Python Developer

Hiring Organisation
mthree
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
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 … trading. Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or Physics preferred. Why Join Work directly with Front Office trading teams on next-gen algorithmic trading systems. Gain exposure to real-time analytics, predictive modelling, and high-performance systems. Collaborative, high-energy environment with strong growth opportunities. ...

Java Developer - Equities Algo Trading x2

Hiring Organisation
McGregor Boyall Associates Limited
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£800 - £950 per day
IR35 status - Inside Dat rate - £750 - £900 pd About the Role: A premier Tier 1 investment bank seeks an adept Java developer specialized in algorithmic trading to join their Electronic Trading Technology team. This position involves driving forward new projects and maintaining essential trading engines. Key Responsibilities: Deliver critical enhancements to trading strategy engines Development of SOR Upgrade core framework components Work closely with quantitative traders to understand and gather requirements Participate in all phases of the development cycle, including requirement gathering, coding, unit testing, patch reviewing, and providing second ...

Full Stack Engineer | Trading | £120k

Hiring Organisation
Orbis Group
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Full Stack Engineer | Algo Trading | London (On-site 5 days per week) I'm partnered exclusively with a Trading firm in London who are looking for a Full Stack Developer to join their algo trading team, helping to deliver a next generation trading … or financial services is beneficial What you'll get Up to £120k base salary plus PnL focused bonus Direct impact on live algorithmic trading systems Greenfield platform work with real ownership Fast moving, high-bar engineering environment Excellent compensation and benefits 📩 If this sounds like ...

Junior C++ Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Harrington Starr
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
This role sits within a high-performing engineering group responsible for building and supporting the core systems that underpin real-time trading activity. The successful candidate will work across the full software development lifecycle, contributing to the design, build, deployment, and optimisation of highly scalable, performance-critical applications. … latency communication, and performance tuning initiatives Take part in design discussions, code reviews, profiling, and CI/CD improvements Gain hands-on exposure to algorithmic trading infrastructure, market structure, and risk platforms Candidate Profile Early-career experience demonstrated through internships, placements, or academic projects (0–2 years ...

Quantitative Researcher (HFT Futures)

Hiring Organisation
Thurn Partners
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
Company: A leading proprietary trading firm specialising in high-frequency and systematic trading across global futures markets. Location: London, United Kingdom. Brief: A top-performing HFT trading team is seeking a C++ Algorithm Developer/Quantitative Researcher to work on latency-sensitive trading … short-horizon signals. Perform feature engineering using high-resolution market data (order book, trades, derived microstructure features). Requirements: Professional experience in quantitative research, algorithmic trading, or low-latency systems development. Strong academic background with further education in a quantitative discipline such as Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science ...

Recruitment Consultant

Hiring Organisation
Durlston Partners
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
: Partnering with systematic and discretionary funds to hire across quant research, trading and engineering, covering all asset classes. High-Frequency & Algorithmic Trading: Supporting the world’s fastest trading firms in low-latency engineering, market-making and execution research. Crypto & Digital Assets … movers in crypto (since 2016), we helped build the founding teams of many of today’s largest institutions and continue to support top trading firms, exchanges and DeFi platforms. FinTech & Private Equity: From scaling startups to established institutions, we place elite software engineers, quant developers and data scientists ...

Java Developer - Equities Algo Trading x2

Hiring Organisation
McGregor Boyall Associates Limited
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP 800 - 950 Daily
IR35 status - Inside Dat rate - £750 - £900 pd About the Role: A premier Tier 1 investment bank seeks an adept Java developer specialized in algorithmic trading to join their Electronic Trading Technology team. This position involves driving forward new projects and maintaining essential trading ...

Java Developer (E-Trading)

Hiring Organisation
AMS CWS
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
temporary professionals, fostering workplaces where everyone can contribute and succeed. On behalf of Deutsche Bank, we are looking for a Java Developer (E-Trading) for a 6 Month contract based in London. The Role & Responsibilities: Deutsche Bank's Quantitative Fixed Income Engineering team, part of Group Strategy Analytics … Repo, Rates, and Credit trading desks. This role sits within the Strats function - engineers working closely with quants and traders to deliver algorithmic and electronic trading solutions. You will contribute to the next generation of a core e-trading platform, focusing on scalability ...

Java/ kdb Developer

Hiring Organisation
Vallum Associates
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
Linux environment. Core Java development experience is often required. Experience with low-latency systems development and tick data capture. Knowledge of market data and algorithmic trading data is highly beneficial. Experience with various financial products like Equities, Futures, Options, and FX is ideal. ...

Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Harrington Starr
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Join a top-tier algorithmic trading firm using cutting-edge machine learning to price 50,000+ instruments across equities, fixed income, FX, commodities, and crypto. You’ll take ownership of building and owning the core systems that power trading and research across the firm — from … depends on. What you’ll do Build and optimise automated data ingestion pipelines Own and improve distributed systems used firm-wide Apply statistical and algorithmic techniques to improve data quality Work closely with internal users to ship impactful improvements Operate with real ownership and autonomy in a high-stakes ...

AVP Quantitative Developer

Hiring Organisation
Alexander Chapman
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
trading systems used in live markets. This role is ideal for a strong Java engineer with hands-on experience in algo trading platforms (Credit, Rates, or FX preferred) who wants real ownership and direct market impact. While the years of experience can be relatively lean … technical bar is extremely high — deep system design, performance, and trading intuition matter most. You’ll work side-by-side with quants and traders , contributing directly to production trading strategies and the core infrastructure that supports them. 💡 Why this stands out: Front-office exposure with real ...

Lead Java Developer

Hiring Organisation
Russell Tobin
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
/750 per day Inside Ir 35 Senior Java Developer (VP) Role Overview We are seeking a Senior Java Developer with deep Electronic Trading expertise to join our E-Fixed Income (eFI) Development Team in London. The team builds and operates low-latency, high-performance electronic trading … latency Java development and concurrent/multi-threaded systems Proven experience with RFQ workflows integrated into broader trading platforms (pricing, algo trading, STP) Deep knowledge of Core Java , object-oriented design, and low-latency design patterns Hands-on experience with: Performance profiling and monitoring Building fault ...

Software Developer C# .Net SQL - Hedge Fund

Hiring Organisation
Client Server
Location
London, England, United Kingdom
over $17 billion under management. As a Software Developer you'll collaborate with a team of highly intelligent technologists and finance professionals to develop algorithmic trading systems working with a modern tech stack, with opportunities for technical ownership from day one. You'll partner with Quant teams ...

Senior UI Developer

Hiring Organisation
McGregor Boyall Associates Limited
Location
City, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP 100,000 Annual
Senior UI Developer - React - FX e-trading A leading global investment bank is expanding its Electronic FX franchise and is seeking an Electronic FX UI Specialist to join a high-performing front-office technology team. … This role sits within a strategic e-trading function responsible for the front-end experience of electronic FX market-making, pricing, and algorithmic trading platforms click apply for full job details ...

Senior Software Engineer, Trading Systems

Hiring Organisation
Ripple
Location
London, England, United Kingdom
real world value. THE WORK: We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer passionate about solving ambitious problems and working directly with Ripple Trading and Markets in the cross-border payments space. We are passionate about the growth of our engineers and place a premium on career development. … will have a high degree of accountability and responsibility from Day 1. You will be an integral part of the Ripple Trading and Markets Team, building scalable, resilient and performant trading systems in a constantly evolving and fast paced environment. You will have real impact ...

Head of eFX Engineering

Hiring Organisation
Harvey Nash
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
financial institution is seeking a Director-level eFX Engineering Lead to drive the design and development of high-performance, low-latency electronic FX trading systems . This is a senior hands-on leadership role working directly with Front Office trading and sales teams to shape next … generation eFX technology across global markets. The Opportunity You will lead the end-to-end engineering of a globally distributed eFX trading platform , covering: Real-time pricing Risk and price distribution Algo execution Electronic trading workflows High-availability architecture This role offers significant ownership, autonomy ...

Junior Quant Developer - Multi-Strat Systematic Trading Fund

Hiring Organisation
Radley James
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Junior Quant Developer – Multi-Strategy Systematic Trading Location - London (or NYC) A leading investment firm specialising in multi-strategy systematic trading is seeking a Junior Quant Developer to join its front-office execution team in London. The firm integrates diverse strategies across asset classes to capitalise … market opportunities. As a Junior Quant Developer (0–4 years of experience), you will: Develop and enhance high-performance trading systems. Optimise execution algorithms for systematic trading. Contribute to research and simulation frameworks. Key Requirements Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or closely related field Interesting internship ...

Python Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Durlston Partners
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Python Software Engineer – High-Frequency Trading We're working with a high-frequency trading (HFT) firm that is looking to expand its technology team with a Python Software Engineer. This is an opportunity to join a trading firm operating at the cutting edge … work in multi-language environments is a plus. Familiarity with SQL databases and Linux-based systems. Interest in financial markets, real-time systems, or algorithmic trading. Why Apply? Opportunity to work on high-impact systems used in live trading. Collaborate with some of the brightest minds in quantitative finance ...

Python Developer

Hiring Organisation
Durlston Partners
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Core Developer (Python) - Algo Trading Firm - London - Up to £350k+ TC (DOE) One of London's most impressive Algo Trading firms is looking for Engineering Wizards to join their team in London. Having arguably one of the best technology teams in the world, the firm … hear from you. Note: if you haven't received a reply within 3 days, your application was unfortunately not accepted. Core Developer (Python) - Algo Trading Firm - London - Up to £350k+ ...