Junior Quant Analyst – Trading
Quant Capital
Overview
As a Junior Quant Analyst, you will support the design and development of trading algorithms within a fast-paced, cross-asset trading firm. You’ll collaborate with the Head of Trading and the quant team to enhance strategies and help build a new low-latency platform from a quantitative perspective. The role involves interfacing with exchanges, supporting traders, and working with developers to solve complex problems. This is an opportunity to gain high-frequency trading exposure in a collaborative, flat-structured environment.
Pay / Benefits- base salary 50,000 GBP
- 40% annual bonus
- competitive, growth-focused environment
- Support design and development of new trading algorithms
- Assist in engineering a greenfield, low-latency trading platform
- Work on connectivity to Financial Exchanges
- Provide client trading support
- Improve and maintain existing trading strategies
- Collaborate with traders and developers to translate requirements into applications
- Resolve issues and contribute to project work
- Engage with a collaborative team focused on cross-asset trading
- STEM Masters or PhD from a top 40 university
- Proficiency in Python and R
- Strong SQL skills
- Solid understanding of general programming concepts
- Diligent, detail-oriented coder
- Interest in capital markets; crypto market making is a plus
- collaborative mindset
- strong problem-solving ability
- ability to work with cross-functional teams
- Python
- R
- SQL
Reference: WJ-747_31174648