Associate Quantitative Engineer

TP ICAP Group Services Ltd; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

TP ICAP Group Services Ltd in London is seeking a junior software engineer to join the Global Analytics team. You will work on the Price Discovery platform, developing and maintaining broking screens across Fixed Income, Interest Rate Derivatives, FX Derivatives, Energy, and Commodities, using C++, C#, and Python.

As a junior member, you will be guided by experienced colleagues to learn financial concepts while contributing to production-ready code and reusable libraries.

Qualifications

• Degree in CS, Engineering, or Physics.
• Proficient in at least one of C++, C#, Python.
• Builder mindset with ability to deliver and iterate.

Responsibilities

• Create, enhance, and support broking screens across multiple asset classes.
• Support existing systems and data pipelines, fix production issues, and identify where things can be improved.
• Learn how financial markets operate from the screens, the broking desks, and colleagues.
• Own and drive projects to completion, delivering high-quality results.
• Contribute to moving analytics out of screen cells into reusable library functions and documenting pricing logic.
• Contribute to building micro-services that translate business requirements into deployable components.
• Contribute to optimising and streamlining how screens are developed and deployed.
• Contribute to improving search and data retrieval capabilities to support data sales requirements.
• Leverage AI tools and modern development workflows to accelerate your own work and the team's output.

Skills

C++

C#

Python

Builder mindset

Ambiguity tolerance

Self-starter

Clear communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Physics

Job description

Group Overview

Group Overview The TP ICAP Group is a world leading provider of market infrastructure. Our purpose is to provide clients with access to global financial and commodities markets, improving price discovery, liquidity, and distribution of data, through responsible and innovative solutions. Through our people and technology, we connect clients to superior liquidity and data solutions. The Group is home to a stable of premium brands. Collectively, TP ICAP is the largest interdealer broker in the world by revenue, the number one Energy & Commodities broker in the world, the world’s leading provider of OTC data, and an award winning all-to-all trading platform. The Group operates from more than 60 offices in 27 countries. We are 5,300 people strong. We work as one to achieve our vision of being the world’s most trusted, innovative, liquidity and data solutions specialist.

Role Overview

The Global Analytics team builds and maintains the Price Discovery platform used by the broking desks globally to generate, calculate, and distribute market data to clients. Our work spans Fixed Income, Interest Rate Derivatives, FX Derivatives, Energy, and Commodities. Much of the day-to-day centres on an in-house Excel-like application, backed by C++ and C# libraries, where broking screens are developed and maintained. As a junior member of the team, you will have experienced colleagues around you to guide you through the financial domain and the platform.

Role Responsibilities

• Create, enhance, and support broking screens across multiple asset classes
• Support existing systems and data pipelines, fix production issues, and identify where things can be improved
• Learn how financial markets operate from the screens, the broking desks, and colleagues
• Own and drive projects to completion, delivering high-quality results
• Contribute to moving analytics out of screen cells into reusable library functions and documenting pricing logic
• Contribute to building micro-services that translate business requirements into deployable components
• Contribute to optimising and streamlining how screens are developed and deployed
• Contribute to improving search and data retrieval capabilities to support data sales requirements
• Leverage AI tools and modern development workflows to accelerate your own work and the team's output

A pure research or quant modelling position. You will learn financial concepts, but the day-to-day is engineering A role where every task comes with a detailed specification. You will often need to figure out the "how" yourself A passive role, as we need someone who looks for problems to solve, not someone who waits to be told what to do

Experience / Competences

• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Physics
• Demonstrable programming ability in at least one of C++, C#, or Python
• A builder mindset: you would rather deliver something and iterate than wait for a perfect specification
• Comfortable with ambiguity and with asking questions to move things forward
• A self-starter who engages with tasks of all sizes, from quick fixes to larger project work
• Genuine curiosity about how things work, in the financial markets and in the codebase
• Clear, direct communication

Desired Prior exposure to financial markets is a plus but not a requirement

Eagerness to adopt new technologies, including AI-powered tooling #LI-Hybrid #LI-ASO

Company Statement

We know that the best innovation happens when diverse people with different perspectives and skills work together in an inclusive atmosphere. That's why we're building a culture where everyone plays a part in making people feel welcome, ready and willing to contribute. TP ICAP Accord - our Employee Network - is a central to this. As well as representing specific groups, TP ICAP Accord helps increase awareness, collaboration, shares best practice, and holds our firm to account for driving continuous cultural improvement.

Location

UK - 135 Bishopsgate - London

Connecting clients, communities and colleagues for sustainable growth TP ICAP connects people, platforms, ideas, and insight across the world’s financial, energy and commodities markets. As a global leader in market infrastructure and data-led solutions, we enhance market access, increase efficiencies, and unlock possibilities.

Work with us

Joining TP ICAP puts you at the heart of markets that matter. You’ll have the freedom to innovate and act on your initiative. We’ll train you and build your abilities in your specialist area, so that you can become an expert in your field. And all within a connected network that’s there to set you up for success.

More about us

TP ICAP Group is a collection of premium brands each with a distinct, client-focused offering. Underpinning and connecting these client-facing brands is the financial security, operational strength and know-how we have as a Group. Connections are at the heart of what we do. We combine our people’s know-how with the latest technology to improve price discovery, trade execution and liquidity flow. Connections create strength. Through them, we help our clients to manage risk, realise investment strategies and expand the scope for growth. And connections act as a catalyst. Sparking richer solutions for our clients to break new ground, modernising markets for future performance, and creating dynamic careers for our people. Our capacity to connect builds trust, supports communities and gives us the power to anticipate and respond to change, whatever direction the world takes. It’s what makes TP ICAP a mainstay in the global markets, now and in the future. TP ICAP. We connect.