Quantitative Developer

Department: Analytics & Data

Location: London

Employment Type: FullTime

Compensation: Competitive (Financial Services)

About TradingHub

Founded in 2010, TradingHub delivers uniquely intelligent trade surveillance software to world leading financial institutions. Developed by market professionals, our solutions use sophisticated modelling techniques to detect single and cross-product market manipulation.

With a team of over 150 experts worldwide, TradingHub combines global reach with deep markets expertise to help our customers mitigate financial, regulatory, and reputational risk.

The Role

We are seeking a Quantitative Developer to help design, build, and validate the models that power our industry-leading market surveillance and analytics products. As part of our metrics division, you'll collaborate with a team of engineers and quants to create and deploy market abuse metrics and detection algorithms.

The successful candidate will combine excellent mathematical skills with the proven ability to engineer high-quality software in a practical setting.

Responsibilities:

• Development of sophisticated pattern-detection algorithms to be utilised across all of TradingHub’s product offerings

• Research and development of broad models of market dynamics across multiple asset classes

• Prototyping, testing, and validation of TradingHub’s proprietary mathematical/statistical models

• Use of in-house big data language for the large-scale pricing and analysis of security and risk data

• Implementation and optimisation of the core algorithms used by TradingHub to perform deep analysis of financial data

• Requirements

Requirements

• Proficiency with C#, C++ or Python

• Evidence of exceptional mathematical and analytical skills

• Initial industry experience working as a quant within a financial services organisation

• Some knowledge of risk sensitivities or "Greeks" such as Delta, Gamma, DV01 etc.

• Understanding of derivatives (e.g. swaps, options, futures)

• Confidence to experiment with new ideas and technologies

• Keen to work in a fast-paced environment

Benefits

Life at TradingHub is a rewarding journey within a fast-growing company that thrives on innovation and collaboration. By combining the best of technology and global markets, we’re able to solve complex problems together and deliver meaningful results to our customers. Everybody has value to bring, and we welcome individuality as a key driving force behind our collective success.

Rooted in everything that we do are our core values: Accountability, Ambition, Partnership and Trust. These values provide the foundation for a sustainable workplace culture that empowers you to grow, contribute, and become your best self.

Employee Benefits:

• Annual discretionary performance bonus (permanent employees only)

• Hybrid working policy

• Office lunches twice a week

• Private medical insurance + dental cover

• Extended parental leave (up to 6 months of fully paid maternity leave)

• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays

• Enhanced company pension plan

• 5 days study leave towards professional qualifications

• Salary sacrifice schemes

• Death in service coverage

Don’t tick every single requirement? Research shows that candidates from under-represented groups are less likely to apply unless they meet all the criteria. We are dedicated to building a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace, so if this role excites you, please don't let our specification hold you back. Get in touch!

TradingHub is an equal opportunities employer. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, ethnic or national origins, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, socio-economic background, responsibilities for dependants, physical or mental disability or other applicable legally protected characteristics. TradingHub selects candidates for interview based solely on their skills, experience and qualifications.

We are committed to making our recruitment process accessible to all and we encourage candidates to inform us of any required adjustments. A full copy of our diversity, equity and inclusion policy will be made available to you upon request.