Index Rebalance Quant Trader - Strategy Owner & Growth

Selby Jennings; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Selby Jennings is seeking an Index Rebalance Quant Trader for its London desk, joining a rapidly expanding proprietary trading firm. The role combines alpha generation, live trading, and strategy ownership within a well-resourced environment.

You will develop and manage index rebalance strategies, work with researchers and technologists, and contribute to risk management and capital allocation decisions. London-based, with access to institutional-grade infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in a proprietary trading, hedge fund, or systematic trading environment.
• Proven ability to develop and deploy systematic index rebalance strategies.
• Strong coding and quantitative research skills.

Responsibilities

• Research, develop, and deploy systematic index rebalance trading strategies.
• Identify opportunities from benchmark changes and corporate actions.
• Generate and evaluate alpha sources across equities and index products.
• Manage live trading, capital deployment, and strategy performance.
• Conduct post-trade analysis and refine trading models.
• Collaborate with researchers, developers and trading tech teams.
• Support portfolio construction, risk management, and capital allocation.
• Contribute to growth and buildout of the trading desk.

Skills

Quantitative research

Coding

Portfolio construction

Risk management

Live trading

Equities/index strategies

Alpha generation

Collaboration

Job description

Selby Jennings is seeking an Index Rebalance Quant Trader for its London desk, joining a rapidly expanding proprietary trading firm. The role combines alpha generation, live trading, and strategy ownership within a well-resourced environment.

You will develop and manage index rebalance strategies, work with researchers and technologists, and contribute to risk management and capital allocation decisions. London-based, with access to institutional-grade infrastructure.