Proprietary Trading Jobs in the UK

51 to 75 of 126 Proprietary Trading Jobs in the UK

🚀 C++ Engineer – World’s Largest (Almost!) Supercomputer

London Area, United Kingdom
Augmentti
petabytes of storage, and almost 10 petabytes of RAM. This cutting-edge infrastructure supports state-of-the-art Deep Learning models that process trillions of data points, driving trading algorithms that handle $300 billion across 80+ exchanges daily. They are one of the youngest, yet most innovative and successful algo trading firms on the planet. All … an exceptional C++ Engineer to join their most critical engineering group across the whole firm. This elite team of engineers is responsible for developing all of their on-exchange proprietary trading technology—the single biggest driver of the firm’s revenue. As part of this team, you’ll be among the highest-paid engineers in the company … an exabyte-scale distributed filesystem to custom compilers for massively parallel computation, your work will be challenging and complex. At every turn, it will contribute to the core trading stack and have a direct impact on the success of the firm. Work with the Best : Collaborate with some of the most talented engineers, researchers, and quants in the More ❯
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🚀 C++ Engineer – World’s Largest (Almost!) Supercomputer

City of London, London, United Kingdom
Augmentti
petabytes of storage, and almost 10 petabytes of RAM. This cutting-edge infrastructure supports state-of-the-art Deep Learning models that process trillions of data points, driving trading algorithms that handle $300 billion across 80+ exchanges daily. They are one of the youngest, yet most innovative and successful algo trading firms on the planet. All … an exceptional C++ Engineer to join their most critical engineering group across the whole firm. This elite team of engineers is responsible for developing all of their on-exchange proprietary trading technology—the single biggest driver of the firm’s revenue. As part of this team, you’ll be among the highest-paid engineers in the company … an exabyte-scale distributed filesystem to custom compilers for massively parallel computation, your work will be challenging and complex. At every turn, it will contribute to the core trading stack and have a direct impact on the success of the firm. Work with the Best : Collaborate with some of the most talented engineers, researchers, and quants in the More ❯
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Sales Executive - Compliance

London, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
Trading Technologies International
are seeking an experienced and motivated Sales Executive to join our London-based team, focusing on selling cutting-edge multi-asset trade surveillance solutions to financial institutions and trading firms. Our Sales division is challenged with originating and closing new sales opportunities and growing wallet share from existing clients. What Will You Be Involved With? Develop and execute … client needs and regulatory requirements Stay up-to-date on industry trends, regulatory changes, and market developments affecting trade surveillance Attend conferences, participate in industry panels, and represent Trading Technologies at industry events while growing and enhancing the product brand Coordinate onboarding efforts for new Surveillance customers What Will You Bring to the Table? Bachelor's degree in … s leading sell-side institutions, buy-side firms, and exchanges. The company's blue-chip client base includes Tier 1 banks as well as brokers, money managers, hedge funds, proprietary traders, Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs), commercial hedgers, and risk managers. These firms rely on the TT ecosystem to manage their end-to-end trading operations. More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: GBP Annual
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C++/Python Engineer – Proprietary HFT Firm - £200k

London Area, United Kingdom
Paragon Alpha - Hedge Fund Talent Business
Paragon Alpha are partnered with a technology driven proprietary trading firm that specializes in systematic alpha research and electronic market-making on various exchanges. Trading across multiple trading venues and asset classes, they attribute their success to their cutting-edge technology and state-of-the-art low latency infrastructure platform. they are looking … Central to this role is to heavily contribute to the development of their own true HFT set up, and the design/development of their in-house low latency proprietary software stack and their core research platform. Stack: C++, Python, AWS, Cloud Computing The ideal candidate will also have some DevOps or infrastructure experience. This firm provides a great More ❯
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C++/Python Engineer – Proprietary HFT Firm - £200k

City of London, London, United Kingdom
Paragon Alpha - Hedge Fund Talent Business
Paragon Alpha are partnered with a technology driven proprietary trading firm that specializes in systematic alpha research and electronic market-making on various exchanges. Trading across multiple trading venues and asset classes, they attribute their success to their cutting-edge technology and state-of-the-art low latency infrastructure platform. they are looking … Central to this role is to heavily contribute to the development of their own true HFT set up, and the design/development of their in-house low latency proprietary software stack and their core research platform. Stack: C++, Python, AWS, Cloud Computing The ideal candidate will also have some DevOps or infrastructure experience. This firm provides a great More ❯
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C++/Python Engineer – Proprietary HFT Firm - £200k

South East London, England, United Kingdom
Paragon Alpha - Hedge Fund Talent Business
Paragon Alpha are partnered with a technology driven proprietary trading firm that specializes in systematic alpha research and electronic market-making on various exchanges. Trading across multiple trading venues and asset classes, they attribute their success to their cutting-edge technology and state-of-the-art low latency infrastructure platform. they are looking … Central to this role is to heavily contribute to the development of their own true HFT set up, and the design/development of their in-house low latency proprietary software stack and their core research platform. Stack: C++, Python, AWS, Cloud Computing The ideal candidate will also have some DevOps or infrastructure experience. This firm provides a great More ❯
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C++ Engineer - Research Platform - Systematic Trading - £200k

City of London, London, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
Paragon Alpha - Hedge Fund Talent Business
Paragon are working with a prop trading firm who trade quant equities, and have a small global team of interwoven engineers and traders. One trading team is keen to hire a C++ Engineer, to support building high throughput data systems, allowing quant researchers to harness a research compute platform to aid their trading strategies. More ❯
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C++ Engineer - Research Platform - Systematic Trading - £200k

London Area, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
Paragon Alpha - Hedge Fund Talent Business
Paragon are working with a prop trading firm who trade quant equities, and have a small global team of interwoven engineers and traders. One trading team is keen to hire a C++ Engineer, to support building high throughput data systems, allowing quant researchers to harness a research compute platform to aid their trading strategies. More ❯
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C++ Software Engineer (Low Latency)

London Area, United Kingdom
NJF Global Holdings Ltd
C++ Software Engineer (Low Latency) Salary: £150k-200k Total Comp: £300k-500k (dependent on experience and performance) A leading proprietary trading firm is seeking a C++ Software Engineer to design, develop, and optimize low-latency trading systems. This role involves working closely with research, systems, and operations teams to implement and enhance automated trading algorithms. Core responsibilities: Develop and maintain high-performance C++ trading software including infrastructure and connectivity driving trading in the nanosecond limitations. Optimize system performance with focus on low latency, performance, stability and low-error tolerance Candidates will need to be extremely proficient with low level C++ showcasing expertise across areas such as low latency … multithreading, lockless programming and concurrency. Prior finance/trading experience is not a requirement. More ❯
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C++ Software Engineer (Low Latency)

City of London, London, United Kingdom
NJF Global Holdings Ltd
C++ Software Engineer (Low Latency) Salary: £150k-200k Total Comp: £300k-500k (dependent on experience and performance) A leading proprietary trading firm is seeking a C++ Software Engineer to design, develop, and optimize low-latency trading systems. This role involves working closely with research, systems, and operations teams to implement and enhance automated trading algorithms. Core responsibilities: Develop and maintain high-performance C++ trading software including infrastructure and connectivity driving trading in the nanosecond limitations. Optimize system performance with focus on low latency, performance, stability and low-error tolerance Candidates will need to be extremely proficient with low level C++ showcasing expertise across areas such as low latency … multithreading, lockless programming and concurrency. Prior finance/trading experience is not a requirement. More ❯
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C++ Software Engineer (Low Latency)

South East London, England, United Kingdom
NJF Global Holdings Ltd
C++ Software Engineer (Low Latency) Salary: £150k-200k Total Comp: £300k-500k (dependent on experience and performance) A leading proprietary trading firm is seeking a C++ Software Engineer to design, develop, and optimize low-latency trading systems. This role involves working closely with research, systems, and operations teams to implement and enhance automated trading algorithms. Core responsibilities: Develop and maintain high-performance C++ trading software including infrastructure and connectivity driving trading in the nanosecond limitations. Optimize system performance with focus on low latency, performance, stability and low-error tolerance Candidates will need to be extremely proficient with low level C++ showcasing expertise across areas such as low latency … multithreading, lockless programming and concurrency. Prior finance/trading experience is not a requirement. More ❯
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Java Software Engineer

City of London, London, United Kingdom
Miller Maxwell Ltd
company seeking to hire a Java Software Engineer expanding their team in 2025. The Java Software Engineer will be a key contributor to the development and enhancement of proprietary trading systems and surrounding ecosystem's. The Java Software Engineer will be required to have worked on the development of electronic trading systems. The Java … Software Engineer will: Enhance and develop core features trading platform software. Build trading engines, micro-services, low-latency tools. Work to develop solutions around new products requested by trading and front-office teams. Work within their TDD and BDD environment. Research and look to continuously improve the systems and introduce new technology. The Java … Software Engineer qualifications: A degree in a STEM-related subject. At least eight years of commercial Java experience. Experience working on the development of electronic trading software is required for this position. Java concurrency is essential. FIX Protocol - FIX Connectivity - ITCH experience - desirable. The team works closely with quants so ideally, the Java Software Engineer will see a More ❯
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Java Software Engineer

London Area, United Kingdom
Miller Maxwell Ltd
company seeking to hire a Java Software Engineer expanding their team in 2025. The Java Software Engineer will be a key contributor to the development and enhancement of proprietary trading systems and surrounding ecosystem's. The Java Software Engineer will be required to have worked on the development of electronic trading systems. The Java … Software Engineer will: Enhance and develop core features trading platform software. Build trading engines, micro-services, low-latency tools. Work to develop solutions around new products requested by trading and front-office teams. Work within their TDD and BDD environment. Research and look to continuously improve the systems and introduce new technology. The Java … Software Engineer qualifications: A degree in a STEM-related subject. At least eight years of commercial Java experience. Experience working on the development of electronic trading software is required for this position. Java concurrency is essential. FIX Protocol - FIX Connectivity - ITCH experience - desirable. The team works closely with quants so ideally, the Java Software Engineer will see a More ❯
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Java Software Engineer

South East London, England, United Kingdom
Miller Maxwell Ltd
company seeking to hire a Java Software Engineer expanding their team in 2025. The Java Software Engineer will be a key contributor to the development and enhancement of proprietary trading systems and surrounding ecosystem's. The Java Software Engineer will be required to have worked on the development of electronic trading systems. The Java … Software Engineer will: Enhance and develop core features trading platform software. Build trading engines, micro-services, low-latency tools. Work to develop solutions around new products requested by trading and front-office teams. Work within their TDD and BDD environment. Research and look to continuously improve the systems and introduce new technology. The Java … Software Engineer qualifications: A degree in a STEM-related subject. At least eight years of commercial Java experience. Experience working on the development of electronic trading software is required for this position. Java concurrency is essential. FIX Protocol - FIX Connectivity - ITCH experience - desirable. The team works closely with quants so ideally, the Java Software Engineer will see a More ❯
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Test Analyst - Up to £650 P/D - London/Hybrid

Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
Hunter Bond
Job title: Senior Test Analyst Client: Trading/Prop Trading Salary: Up to £650 P/D Location: London/Hybrid Duration : 6 Month (Rolling) This is a great opportunity for a QA Tester to join one of the most successful Trading firms in the world, to work directly on the trading … Engineers in the industry! As a critical part of the core team, you will work on real-time streaming data and systems which allow the execution of algorithmic trading strategies based on patterns in market behaviour. You will be part of one of the biggest technical projects the firm has ever worked on and play a critical role More ❯
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Software Engineer

London Area, United Kingdom
Albert Bow
cryptocurrency trading firm specializing in high-frequency trading (HFT) across digital asset markets. They operate with the speed, precision, and sophistication of a traditional prop trading firm but fully optimized for decentralized and centralized crypto exchanges. The Role: The ideal candidate will be a sharp, driven developer to join their DeFi trading … role, you'll play a key part in building and scaling high-performance systems that interact directly with decentralized markets. You’ll work hands on across their entire trading stack from integrating with blockchains and implementing trading logic to scaling infrastructure and improving system observability. Key Responsibilities Contribute production-grade code in Rust, Python, and related … technologies Develop and refine real-time monitoring, strategy tools, and execution pipelines Grow into end-to-end ownership across DeFi integrations and trading infrastructure Interface with protocol teams and external projects to support new market opportunities What We're Looking For: 1–4 years of professional software development experience Strong programming skills and the ability to write clean More ❯
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Software Engineer

City of London, London, United Kingdom
Albert Bow
cryptocurrency trading firm specializing in high-frequency trading (HFT) across digital asset markets. They operate with the speed, precision, and sophistication of a traditional prop trading firm but fully optimized for decentralized and centralized crypto exchanges. The Role: The ideal candidate will be a sharp, driven developer to join their DeFi trading … role, you'll play a key part in building and scaling high-performance systems that interact directly with decentralized markets. You’ll work hands on across their entire trading stack from integrating with blockchains and implementing trading logic to scaling infrastructure and improving system observability. Key Responsibilities Contribute production-grade code in Rust, Python, and related … technologies Develop and refine real-time monitoring, strategy tools, and execution pipelines Grow into end-to-end ownership across DeFi integrations and trading infrastructure Interface with protocol teams and external projects to support new market opportunities What We're Looking For: 1–4 years of professional software development experience Strong programming skills and the ability to write clean More ❯
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Operations Specialist

London, United Kingdom
P2P
DRW is a diversified trading firm with over 3 decades of experience bringing sophisticated technology and exceptional people together to operate in markets around the world. We value autonomy and the ability to quickly pivot to capture opportunities, so we operate using our own capital and trading at our own risk. Headquartered in Chicago with offices … Ensure accurate processing of trade lifecycle both internally and externally Investigate and resolved trade and position breaks with clearing firms and prime brokers Gain mastery of the firm's proprietary trade capture and inventory management necessary to support each desk's activity Act as process super-user for current systems, providing critical support and advice regarding needed enhancements to … settlement experience Previous exposure to other products' lifecycle (Fixed Income, Futures and Options, mainly) A background in European equities; ideally with exposure to supporting other ancillary products at a proprietary trading firm, hedge fund or other buy-side organization Substantial prior interaction with the front office and senior management in an active trading environment Bachelor More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: GBP Annual
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Quantitative Researcher

London, United Kingdom
DARE
Permanent, Full-time - Onsite Who we are: We are an energy trading company generating liquidity across global commodities markets. We combine deep trading expertise with proprietary technology and the power of data science to be the best-in-class. Our understanding of volatile, data-intensive markets is a key part of our edge. At Dare … a key role within the algorithmic technical space at Dare. Working closely with a talented algorithmic andtechnical team to build a platform that delivers ML capabilities to ourLiquidity trading teams. These teams are responsible for delivering products for internal customers. Setting and delivering a consistent, scalable approach to machine learning across the organisation is one of the key … requires building relationships and collaborating with Senior Leaders across the business to shape a strategy that delivers models that provide our traders with a competitive edge. Using Dare's proprietary trading data and models to drive trading PNL. Developing trading indicators and strategies powered by machine learning. Partnering with quantitative research and algorithmic More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: GBP Annual
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Equity ETF Trader (London)

London, United Kingdom
Old Mission
Old Mission is a global proprietary trading firm that leverages state-of-the-art technology and research to identify and execute profitable trading strategies across multiple asset classes around the world. Our offices in Chicago, New York, and London are all composed of naturally-curious individuals who thrive in a team environment and constantly strive … them engaged in the firm's growth. Summary: Old Mission is seeking an Equity ETF Trader to join our growing team in London. This role involves pricing and trading a wide variety of equity ETFs, monitoring market conditions and developing new trading strategies. This ETF trader will work closely with our trading and technology … teams to optimize trading performance and contribute to the future growth of the desk. Responsibilities: Make markets in Equity ETFs across various international trading platforms. Analyze market trends and conditions to identify new trading opportunities. Develop and implement trading strategies to optimize portfolio performance. Manage trading risks by setting appropriate More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: GBP Annual
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Senior Index Rebalance Quant Researcher – Global Multi-Manager Hedge Fund

City of London, London, United Kingdom
Venture Search
and ideally has coverage on MSCI. With the primary role of the position being alpha signal generation, a demonstrable track record working within a leading Hedge Fund or Prop Trading from in this space is required and there will be an expectation to independently develop and present senior PM’s with trade opportunities. Candidate Requirements: 5+ years of More ❯
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Senior Index Rebalance Quant Researcher – Global Multi-Manager Hedge Fund

London Area, United Kingdom
Venture Search
and ideally has coverage on MSCI. With the primary role of the position being alpha signal generation, a demonstrable track record working within a leading Hedge Fund or Prop Trading from in this space is required and there will be an expectation to independently develop and present senior PM’s with trade opportunities. Candidate Requirements: 5+ years of More ❯
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Senior Index Rebalance Quant Researcher – Global Multi-Manager Hedge Fund

South East London, England, United Kingdom
Venture Search
and ideally has coverage on MSCI. With the primary role of the position being alpha signal generation, a demonstrable track record working within a leading Hedge Fund or Prop Trading from in this space is required and there will be an expectation to independently develop and present senior PM’s with trade opportunities. Candidate Requirements: 5+ years of More ❯
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Head of Sales, EMEI

London, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
Trading Technologies International
to existing clients Responsible for meeting and exceeding quarterly and yearly sales and revenue targets Cross Selling collaboration with other Heads of Sales across all lines of the Trading Technologies business. Team Leadership Hire, train, manage and motivate a high performing sales team Manage team territories Review team priorities weekly through weekly team and one on one meetings … including discounted healthcare premiums, healthy meal delivery programmes, or smoking cessation) Milestone anniversary bonuses Forward-thinking, a culture-based organization with collaborative teams that promote diversity and inclusion Trading Technologies is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technology platform provider to the global capital markets industry. The company's award-winning TT platform connects to the world's … s leading sell-side institutions, buy-side firms, and exchanges. The company's blue-chip client base includes Tier 1 banks as well as brokers, money managers, hedge funds, proprietary traders, Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs), commercial hedgers, and risk managers. These firms rely on the TT ecosystem to manage their end-to-end trading operations. More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: GBP Annual
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Head of Content

London, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options
EXANTE Limited
EXANTE is a pioneering wealth tech company that delivers cutting-edge centralized trading solutions and robust B2B financial infrastructure, driving value through innovative technology. Our proprietary trading platform offers seamless access to diverse financial instruments including stocks, ETFs, bonds, futures, and options all within a single, multi-currency account. We cultivate a culture that transcends … of writers and collaborate closely with key stakeholders across the business to deliver clear, engaging, and impactful content that reflects EXANTE's position as a global leader in trading and investment. Why You'll Love It Here: Take the lead in reshaping how an ambitious brokerage connects with the world. See your ideas quickly translate into visible, real … Function Marketing Location United Kingdom, London Employment type Remote/Hybrid/Office Working mode Full time About company EXANTE EXANTE is a wealthtech company that provides centralised trading solutions and B2B financial infrastructure that helps create value through technology. Our p More ❯
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: GBP Annual
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Proprietary Trading
10th Percentile
£86,000
25th Percentile
£91,250
Median
£105,000
75th Percentile
£125,000
90th Percentile
£134,000