1 to 25 of 42 Proprietary Trading Jobs in the UK excluding London

Are you ready to be part of something truly special as the first quant developer for a brand-new trading team? In short: We’re working with an elite global trading firm known for its success in high-frequency trading (HFT) but operating under … the radar (they aren't the typical firm you hear about). They’re setting up a brand-new trading desk in London, led by a top PM with a proven track record. This is a rare opportunity to be the first quant developer on the team and … , Electronic Trading, E-Trading, Systematic Trading, High-Frequency Trading, HFT, High Frequency, Startup, Scaleup, Prop Trading, Execution, Algo Trading, Quant Trading, Parallel Computing, Optimisations, Low-Latency, Algorithms, Distributed Systems, Market Data, Connectivity, Trading More ❯

Desktop Trade Support Engineer – Global Proprietary Trading Firm Location: London Compensation: Exceptional Package + Performance Bonus Quant Capital is partnered with one of the world’s most sophisticated proprietary trading firms as they expand their core engineering team in London. With over 30 years … opportunity is ideal for an End-user Support or Trade Support Engineer who thrives in high-performance environments, understands the demands of a trading floor, and is excited by the pace and complexity of modern market infrastructure. The Opportunity: Joining a globally distributed team of expert technologists, you … complex issues under time pressure Highly autonomous, intellectually curious, and able to manage competing priorities with composure Desirable (but not essential): Prior experience in proprietary trading, hedge funds, or market-making firms Windows Server and Active Directory administration Exposure to Microsoft SCCM or similar enterprise tools Experience More ❯

About Deeter Investments Deeter Investments is a founder‑led proprietary trading firm built around real‑time, data‑driven decision‑making. We prize curiosity, collaboration, and a bias for action. After years of discretionary success, we’re launching a dedicated algorithmic division—and we’re looking for a … strategic oversight across research, engineering, and trading operations. Key Responsibilities Quantitative Strategy Development & Research Algorithm Design: Lead the creation and refinement of proprietary trading algorithms rooted in the firm’s market framework, leveraging advanced statistical and machine‑learning techniques. Modeling & Simulation: Build forecasting, signal‑generation … as Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, or Physics. Experience: Minimum 5 years building and deploying profitable algorithmic strategies at a hedge fund, bank, or proprietary trading firm. Programming: Advanced expertise in at least one core language (Python, C++, or Java) and familiarity with Linux, Git, and CI More ❯

A leading proprietary trading firm, specializing in high-frequency and algorithmic trading across global financial markets are looking to hire a Trading Support Engineer. Role Overview: As a Trading Systems Support Engineer, you will be the first point of contact for … real-time trading system issues, ensuring maximum uptime and performance. You will work closely with traders, developers, and infrastructure teams to diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve issues in a fast … paced environment. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with strong technical skills and an interest in financial markets. Key Responsibilities: Provide support for proprietary trading applications, ensuring minimal downtime. Monitor and troubleshoot trading system performance, network connectivity, and order flow. Investigate and resolve trade More ❯

Role: Senior Developer (Trading Systems) Tech stack: C#.NET and SQLServer Domain: Trading Location: London (hybrid - 3 days per week) Compensation: £80,000-90,000, 20-30% bonus, 10% pension and much more X4 Technology are partnered with a high-growth, well-capitalised trading house … in London, offering a unique opportunity for a Senior Developer (Trading Systems) to join … their global team of 400. In this key position within their technology group, you'll help drive the innovation and evolution of vendor and proprietary trading platforms - developing solutions to support key functions like trade capture, market connectivity, STP, risk, pricing and settlement. You'll also contribute More ❯

Portfolio Manager - Cash Equities HFT: A leading proprietary trading firm is seeking a skilled PM to develop strategies for their Cash Equities desk. This role entails conducting microsecond-level market analysis, developing ultra-low latency trading signals, and implementing high-performance systematic strategies into production. … with researchers and engineers to optimize strategy performance and execution speed, with great opportunities for progression. Responsibilities: Develop and maintain ultra-low-latency trading systems for maximum efficiency in strategy execution Enhance alpha generation through innovative ultra-low latency signal development and strategy implementation Communicating with Risk & Trading … company and generate PnL. If you're ready to make a significant impact in HFT and are eager to progress within a leading proprietary trading firm, this role is for you. Please apply now to learn more. More ❯

Client: FinTech trading Salary: Up to £130,000 + Bonus/Benefits Location: London (Hybrid) My client are a completely tech driven proprietary trading firm, looking to expand their Application Support team, and would like someone with prior front office experience to provide technical support … and engineering functions in support of their proprietary and third party trading systems. This role will be highly technical with a large focus on automation! responsibilities: Ensure readiness of the global trading platform for both pre-trading and post-trading activities. … Monitor and support the entire transaction flow across the trading platform. Promptly identify, analyse, and resolve alerts and issues, or escalate them to minimize disruptions in trade flow and prevent outages. Collaborate extensively with the trading community, back office operations, brokers, exchanges, development teams, and infrastructure More ❯

Role: Senior Software Engineer – Trading Systems 🌍 Location: London - hybrid (meet once a month) 💰 Salary: £150,000 to £200,000 + Guaranteed and Performance Bonus' 🛠 Key Skills: Rust, Trading Systems/Exchanges, Crypto/Blockchain An innovative fintech start-up, backed by significant private investment, is looking … for an exceptional Senior Software Engineer to build its next-generation trading platform from scratch. Combining traditional finance expertise with blockchain innovation, the company offers a unique opportunity to shape critical financial infrastructure at the earliest stage. You will need … hands-on experience in trading system engineering, ideally gained within crypto/blockchain start-ups, investment banks, hedge funds, market makers, or proprietary trading firms. Key Responsibilities: Design, build, and optimise low-latency, high-throughput backend trading systems. Develop and maintain trading More ❯

Job Title: Quantitative Developer (C++) Location: London, UK Department: Equities and Futures Trading Pod Position Type: Full-time Reports to: Portfolio Manager About the Company Join a leading global hedge fund with a strong track record of delivering superior returns through sophisticated trading strategies and cutting … empowered to excel. Role Overview We are seeking a highly skilled Quantitative Developer with expertise in C++ to join our Equities and Futures Trading Pod in London. This role is integral to the development and enhancement of our trading algorithms, quantitative models, and high-performance trading … statistical analysis, and machine learning techniques. Experience: Industry Experience: 3+ years of experience as a Quantitative Developer or similar role within a hedge fund, proprietary trading firm, or investment bank. Algorithmic Trading: Proven track record of developing and deploying successful trading algorithms in More ❯

Python Engineer Trading £150,000 Plus Bonus 3 days Hybrid Our client is one of the largest Quant Investment managers globally, with around £20 billion under management. They are mainly quant based but have High frequency and systematic exposure. The role sits with the trading team … evangelise and prototype new technologies and through doing so you will help shape the architecture. Manage the day-to-day technology requirements of our proprietary trading systems. Accelerate trading and research analysis workflows by utilizing and expanding on in-house infrastructure and improve productivity Write More ❯

performance team. The ideal candidate thrives at the intersection of finance and technology, has led engineering teams, and has built and maintained robust trading systems and developer tooling across cloud-native architectures. Location: London | Dubai | Hybrid (Subject to Candidate) Key Responsibilities: Lead architecture, design, and development of scalable … trading platforms and internal developer tools. Collaborate with quant researchers, traders, and infrastructure teams to deliver performant solutions. Maintain and optimize trading infrastructure (low-latency systems, data pipelines, monitoring, etc.). Manage a team of software engineers, mentor junior developers, and drive best practices across the … Strong understanding of Git/GitHub , CI/CD workflows, code branching strategies, and code ownership. Prior work in a fintech, hedge fund, or proprietary trading firm environment. Crypto-native a plus Infrastructure & DevOps: Production experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native deployment strategies. Hands-on with AWS More ❯

Basic GBP Very competitive PnL % split deal Hybrid WORKING Location: United Kingdom (Greater London) Type: Permanent Portfolio Manager My client is a proprietary trading firm specialising in cross-asset high frequency futures trading. They are looking for a highly skilled and experienced trader work on building out … algorithmic trading strategies. My client is looking for a candidate with a proven track record in developing … and running a systematic futures trading strategy. This opportunity will enable the right candidate to make use of my client's excellent proprietary technology stack and infrastructure. About the role Develop and build out of systematic trading strategy on one or more futures Manage the More ❯

C++ Software Engineer - High Frequency Trading This is an exceptional chance to become part of a quantitative and systematic hedge fund management firm where innovative technology is … fundamental to its trading strategies. As part of a team focused on global connectivity, you will be creating next-generation software solutions, proprietary trading strategies, and algorithms to support thousands of trades every second. You'll work closely with business leaders to develop and implement … engineering team, playing a significant role in building and refining critical performance elements. This role could influence various aspects of electronic and algorithmic trading, including exchange price feeds, core trading systems, back-testing engines, management of tick data, and exchange simulators. You will work with quantitative More ❯

Basic Salary GBP Lucrative Performance Based Bonus Hybrid WORKING Location: United Kingdom (Greater London) Type: Permanent Quantitative Trader My client is a proprietary trading firm specialising in cross-asset high frequency futures trading. They are looking for highly skilled and experienced traders to join a research effort … focused on generating high frequency trading alphas in the futures … markets. This opportunity will enable the right candidate to play a key role in strategy development and make use of my client's excellent proprietary technology stack and infrastructure. About the role Designing, implementing, and deploying high-frequency trading algorithms focused on cross-asset Futures Coming-up More ❯

Python Engineer Trading £150,000 Plus Bonus Our client is one of the largest Quant trading firms globally. The role sits within a trading team on the bleeding edge of technology as well as execution. This is an environment of science and intellectuals. The … evangelise and prototype new technologies and through doing so you will help shape the architecture. Manage the day-to-day technology requirements of our proprietary trading systems. Accelerate trading and research analysis workflows by utilizing and expanding on in-house infrastructure and improve productivity Write More ❯

The Client My client is a market leading high-frequency proprietary trading firm with offices across EMEA, USA, UAE and APAC. The are looking for a Senior C++ Software Engineer to join their core engineering group. What You'll Get An opportunity to work in one of … the most exciting and successful high frequency trading businesses in the world. An opportunity to join a strong team with a very high talent density presenting lots of opportunity for learning and development. Incredible career progression opportunities with potential access to all areas of the business. A market … bonus. Benefits including company matching 401K, private healthcare, life assurance and 25 days vacation, plus national holidays. What You'll Do Architecting the trading platform to facilitate the evolving needs of trading strategies, with emphasis on market data interfaces. Designing and implementing a high-frequency trading More ❯

is responsible for providing technical analysis that drives the evolution and growth of CME's core trade execution systems that power our electronic trading platforms CME Globex, EBS Direct and BrokerTec Stream. Our systems need to be both low latency and have high reliability while continuously delivering new … substitute Great, but not required: Experience in Financial Markets (e.g. Futures, Options, Cash, OTC, exchange-based, FCM, brokerage, middle and back office, private equity, proprietary trading) Knowledge of financial products, electronic trading, order management, market data, clearing, or post-trade processing Understanding of acceptance test More ❯

Title: Senior Quantitative Researcher/Sub-Portfolio Manager Location: New York/London Team: Systematic Trading Strategies About the Role: Seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Quantitative Researcher or Sub-Portfolio Manager to join our systematic trading team. The successful candidate will play a key … the potential to manage risk capital independently or transition into a lead PM role over time. Key Responsibilities: Design, research, and implement systematic trading strategies across global equities, futures, FX, or other liquid asset classes Conduct high-quality alpha signal research using alternative data, statistical techniques, and machine … run a sub-portfolio within defined risk limits Requirements: 5+ years of experience in quantitative research or trading at a hedge fund, proprietary trading firm, or top-tier investment bank Proven track record of alpha generation or contribution to profitable strategies Deep understanding of statistical More ❯

Quantitative Trader – High-Frequency Trading - Futures A leading trading firm is seeking a High Frequency Futures Trader to join their hugely successful desk. You will have the opportunity to leverage advanced technology and pricing models to maximize profit. Responsibilities Collaborate with expert analysts and researchers to … strategies produce excellent return on capital Designing, developing and managing profitable systematic trading strategies in Futures (Sharpe 2+) Qualifications Experience at a proprietary trading firm, bank, or hedge fund Previous experience working with languages such as C++ or Python Demonstrate excellent track record HFT and … collaboration abilities Bachelor’s degree required in related field, such as computer science, or economics If you are looking to join a leading Trading Firm whilst leveraging advanced technology, then this is the role for you. For more information, please apply More ❯

an AI Engineer you will join a new team responsible for evaluating and introducing AI and LLM Machine Learning functionality into the company's proprietary trading systems. There's lots of Greenfield development projects to get stuck into and you'll have an impactful role in improving More ❯

A top-tier systematic trading firm is seeking exceptional Quantitative Researchers to advance and optimize proprietary trading strategies. You’ll collaborate with experienced researchers, engineers, and senior leadership, working on high-impact projects that shape the future of quantitative trading. As your career progresses, you … MS, PhD, or Postdoc) Demonstrated strength in problem-solving, modeling, and research methodology Proficient in Python, C++, Java, or R Experience in a trading environment a plus Ready to leverage your quantitative skills and make an impact in the trading world? Apply now More ❯

Researcher – Mid Freq Crypto Apply advanced mathematical models and statistical techniques to develop alpha-generating MFT strategies in crypto. Our client, a world-leading proprietary trading fund is seeking Senior Quantitative Traders to develop and execute mid-frequency trading strategies in the digital asset space. … If you have experience in market microstructure, statistical arbitrage and are eager to dive into real-time trading, this role is for you. You’ll collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of engineers and quants to deploy real-time, scalable trading solutions and have the autonomy to … implement your own trading strategies. What you’ll do: Design and implement mid-frequency trading strategies for digital assets. Work closely with infrastructure teams to optimize latency and execution. Leverage data to continuously refine strategies and stay ahead of market trends. What’s in it for More ❯

Graduate Engineer/Quant Dev/Researcher 📍 Location: London (Hybrid) 💷 Salary: Up to £150,000 + Bonus + Full Benefits 🏢 Client: Elite Proprietary Trading Firm 🚀 Kickstart Your Career with the Best Just graduated and eager to dive into the world of high-performance tech and quantitative finance … Join a leading global trading firm where innovation is key — no legacy systems, no bureaucracy, just a fast-paced, intellectually stimulating environment designed for growth. With unlimited access to cutting-edge technology and mentorship from top-tier engineers and quants, you’ll have the opportunity to contribute to … high-impact projects from day one, shaping the future of trading tech. 🛠️ What You’ll Be Doing 🧠 Develop and enhance state-of-the-art trading systems and infrastructure 📊 Design and implement your own quantitative models 🤝 Collaborate with top engineers, quants, and researchers to tackle complex challenges More ❯

A Proprietary Trading firm in London is seeking a talented Senior C# Developer to join their trading and execution team. This new role has been created due to the company’s strong performance and internal growth, offering a fantastic opportunity for someone that really enjoys … working with and on leading edge technology. The successful candidate will be responsible for building trading tools and applications to support quantitative workflows across the organization, working with large data sets. Key Responsibilities: Develop trading tools and applications for internal users, utilizing large data sets. Work … Requirements: Degree in Computer Science or a related scientific field. Strong experience in C# and the .NET platform. Experience in building or maintaining trading and data analytics platforms. Good database experience, including SQL Server, Oracle, or similar. Knowledge of Web Technologies (HTML5, CSS, JSP, ASP.NET) is desirable. What More ❯

models in the global equity markets Continuous improvement of trading models and modelling techniques Qualifications: 3+ years quantitative hedge fund or proprietary trading experience Msc or PHD in statistics, mathematics, computer science or other technical discipline Demonstrated proficiency in Python For more information on More ❯