Low-Latency Equity Quant Developer

UBS; City Of London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

UBS, London-based, seeks an Equity Quantitative Developer to join its Cash Equities CRB team. You will own initiatives from analysis through design and delivery, building a low-latency trading platform in a fast-paced environment.

Key collaboration with quantitative traders and governance functions; focus on market connectivity, hedging, risk, and latency optimization while enhancing analytics and dashboards with modern tools.

Qualifications

• Advanced Java with low-latency techniques.
• Design and implement low-latency, high-throughput trading platforms.
• Business knowledge of electronic trading in Cash Equities and markets.
• Collaborate with quant traders to implement trading models.
• Produce model documentation and governance.
• Experience with messaging libraries and protocols (Aeron, Kafka, EMS, SBE, FIX, ITCH, OUCH).
• Familiarity with time-series databases and Python for analytics.
• Full stack development, preferably React for dashboards.

Responsibilities

• Join Cash Equities CRB Quantitative Developer team.
• Develop and enhance a best-in-class Cash Equities platform.
• Work within Principal Flow Trading quant development.
• Own initiatives from analysis to delivery.
• Drive improvements to platform and framework.
• Involve in algorithmic trading: market connectivity, hedging, risk, execution, analytics, latency, framework.

Skills

Low-latency Java

Event-driven trading

Cash equities market

Quant collaboration

Model documentation

Messaging protocols

Time-series databases

Full stack React

AI workflows

Tools

Aeron

Kafka

EMS

SBE

FIX

ITCH

OUCH

Job description

UBS, London-based, seeks an Equity Quantitative Developer to join its Cash Equities CRB team. You will own initiatives from analysis through design and delivery, building a low-latency trading platform in a fast-paced environment.

Key collaboration with quantitative traders and governance functions; focus on market connectivity, hedging, risk, and latency optimization while enhancing analytics and dashboards with modern tools.