Quantitative Trader

TU Berlin; Greater London; On-site; GBP 106,000 - 174,000; Full time

Job summary

Jane Street in London seeks analytically minded individuals to identify market signals, analyze and execute strategies, and build quantitative models. You will work closely with trading teams in a collaborative environment, gaining practical trading responsibilities quickly.

You will access extensive data resources and an educational curriculum designed to accelerate your growth in finance, statistics, and technology.

Qualifications

• Strong quantitative thinking and problem-solving abilities.
• Fluent in English and able to communicate clearly.
• Willingness to learn, adapt, and collaborate in a fast-paced team.
• General programming experience is a plus but not required.

Responsibilities

• Identify market signals and analyze trading strategies.
• Assist in developing and testing quantitative models and systems.
• Participate in ongoing research and educational curricula.

Skills

Critical thinker

Quantitative mind

Collaborative problem-solver

Proactive & reliable

Organisational skills

Fluent in English

General programming

Job description

Aufgabenbeschreibung

About the position

At Jane Street, quantitative traders identify market signals, analyse and execute strategies, construct quantitative models, conduct statistical analyses, build algorithmic trading systems, manage risk, develop new businesses, and more.

Our trading desks are central to our collaborative and cooperative office environment. You can expect to work side by side with experienced traders who are committed to teaching, guiding, and supporting our newest hires. Through hands‑on, interactive training, you'll acquire significant trading responsibilities within weeks to months of being on the desk. In parallel, you will participate in our robust year-long firmwide educational curriculum.

At Jane Street, the lines between research, technology, and trading are intentionally blurry, and you'll have access to petabytes of data, a computing cluster with hundreds of thousands of cores, and a growing GPU cluster containing tens of thousands of high‑end GPUs. We don't believe in "one-size-fits-all" modelling solutions; we are open to and excited about applying all different types of statistical and ML techniques, from linear models to deep learning, depending on what best fits a given problem.

Erwartete Qualifikationen

About you

If you've never thought about a career in finance, you're in good company. Many of us were in the same position before working here. We're looking for smart people who enjoy solving interesting problems, and we're more interested in how you think and learn than what you currently know. You should be:

• A critical thinker with a strong quantitative mind
• A collaborative problem-solver who enjoys working on a team
• Proactive, reliable, and courteous with strong organisational and communication skills
• Eager to ask questions, admit mistakes, and learn new things
• Fluent in English

A profitable trading strategy is only as strong as the technology it runs on, and we consider ourselves as much a technology company as a trading firm. General programming experience is a plus, but knowing a particular programming language is not required.

If you'd like to learn more, you can read about our interview process and meet some of the team.