Front Office Quantitative Developer

Competitive Day Rate | Inside IR35

London | 50% Onsite

We're partnering with a leading organisation in the Global Markets sector to hire an experienced Quant Developer to join a front-office electronic trading technology team.

This is a hands-on role focused on the development and enhancement of a next-generation algorithmic trading platform, supporting trading, quantitative research and execution across global markets.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and enhance core electronic trading platform components.
• Deliver strategic platform improvement and roadmap initiatives.
• Build real-time monitoring, observability and performance tools.
• Improve platform scalability, reliability and operational efficiency.
• Support release management and production environments.
• Work closely with traders, quants and technology teams on new initiatives.
• Provide technical leadership and mentor junior team members.

Required Experience

• Strong Java development experience.
• Advanced Python skills.
• Electronic trading, algorithmic trading or front-office trading technology experience.
• Background within Capital Markets, Investment Banking or Global Markets.
• Experience developing monitoring and performance tooling.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.

Platform Engineering & DevOps

This role is not purely focused on quantitative development. Successful candidates should be comfortable working across the wider platform environment, including:

• CI/CD and build pipelines
• Release and deployment processes
• Developer tooling and platform improvements
• Monitoring, alerting and observability
• Production support and troubleshooting

This is an excellent opportunity for a senior engineer who enjoys combining electronic trading, quantitative development and platform engineering within a high-performance front-office environment.