Quant Trading Developer | Java, Production-Ready Strategies

Morgan McKinley; Greater London; On-site; GBP 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Morgan McKinley is partnering with a premier global institutional trading platform to hire a hands-on Quant Trading Developer for their quantitative engineering group in London. This role sits at the intersection of quantitative research and software engineering, translating strategy ideas into high-performance, live production code across the trading lifecycle.

Note: Prior crypto experience is not required.

Qualifications

• Strong Java development experience in a front-office, production environment.
• Background in quantitative development and desk strats or algorithmic trading.
• Experience taking models from research/backtest to live trading systems.

Responsibilities

• Develop, test, and deploy quantitative trading strategies into production systems.
• Translate complex models from researchers into efficient Java code for live desks.
• Optimize trading engines for throughput, latency, and resilience.
• Own components of the strategy lifecycle including data integration and risk checks.

Skills

Java

Quantitative development

Production experience

Front-office trading

Job description

Morgan McKinley is partnering with a premier global institutional trading platform to hire a hands-on Quant Trading Developer for their quantitative engineering group in London. This role sits at the intersection of quantitative research and software engineering, translating strategy ideas into high-performance, live production code across the trading lifecycle.

Note: Prior crypto experience is not required.