Accounting & Finance

Trading Operations Engineer

Quant Capital

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

Overview

In this role you will support a fast-moving, multi-asset trading environment by maintaining reconciliations, trade support, and post-trade processes. You will build and automate workflows, monitor risk, and collaborate with brokers, exchanges, and engineers to scale the trading infrastructure. This embedded, technical role emphasizes high impact and ownership within a small, trusted operations team. You’ll shape tooling and reporting that directly influences performance and reliability.

Responsibilities
  • Daily reconciliations across cash, positions, and trading activity
  • Manage broker and exchange relationships, resolve operational issues
  • Monitor live risk and escalate accordingly
  • Develop and maintain automated tools (Python, Go, SQL)
  • Support cash, margin, and collateral flows across multiple venues
  • Handle reporting: P&L, risk, treasury, and regulatory checks
  • Participate in the team’s on-call support rota
  • Support onboarding of new products, brokers, and venues
  • Contribute to ad hoc analysis and data reporting projects
Key requirements
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Maths, Engineering, or Computer Science (min 2:1)
  • 2–3 years experience in trading operations or a similar environment
  • Solid Python or Go scripting experience; SQL for data queries/manipulation
  • Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
  • Clear communicator with experience working across teams
  • A self-starter who takes ownership of problems and builds scalable solutions
  • Familiarity with at least one asset class from an ops or support perspective
  • Clear communicator
  • Self-starter
  • Ownership of problems
  • Python
  • Go
  • SQL

Reference: WJ-747_31180523

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