FX & Rates E-Trading Quant — Algorithmic Trading Innovator

bankkarriere.at; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

UBS in London seeks an E-Trading Quant to design and deploy algorithmic strategies for FX and rates. You will back-test, refine models, and monitor live performance using data-driven techniques in a fast, collaborative environment.

The role combines finance, software development, and analytics, offering opportunities to advance in a highly technical trading team and work on cutting-edge electronic trading infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Degree in a quantitative field (e.g., physics, mathematics, engineering, statistics).
• Strong programming skills and ability to write clean, efficient code.
• Experience applying statistics or ML to financial data.

Responsibilities

• Design, back-test, and implement algorithmic trading strategies for FX & rates.
• Apply statistical analysis and ML to optimise pricing and risk management.
• Contribute to the full lifecycle of trading strategies from research to deployment.
• Monitor performance, PnL, and risk exposures of strategies in production.
• Collaborate with traders, software engineers, and quants to improve tools.

Skills

Quantitative analysis

Programming (Java or C++)

Data analysis

Communication

Self-starter

Team collaboration

Financial market awareness

AI/ML interest

Education

Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field

Tools

FIX protocol

KDB/Time-series databases

Data analysis libraries

Job description

UBS in London seeks an E-Trading Quant to design and deploy algorithmic strategies for FX and rates. You will back-test, refine models, and monitor live performance using data-driven techniques in a fast, collaborative environment.

The role combines finance, software development, and analytics, offering opportunities to advance in a highly technical trading team and work on cutting-edge electronic trading infrastructure.