Rates Quant Trader: Production-Driven Quant Research

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in London invites engineers and scientists to join the Quantitative Trading & Research group focused on systematic models powering trading across FX, Rates, Commodities and Credit.

As an Analyst or Associate in the Rates team, you will design, build and operate production components of our swaps trading stack, backtest models, analyze data, and contribute to live trading with strong collaboration across teams.

Qualifications

• Degree in computer science, mathematics, physics, engineering or another quantitative field.
• Relevant full-time experience in systematic trading, software engineering or a comparable technical role.
• Strong programming ability in Java or C++, together with proficiency in Python for research and data analysis.
• Evidence of owning software end to end, covering design, testing, deployment, and operating it once live.
• Knowledge of probability, statistics, and experience with advanced data analysis techniques.
• Attention to detail, adaptable, driven and collaborative.
• Active interest in markets and quantitative trading.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate production components of our systematic swaps trading stack from design through deployment and incident resolution.
• Build the research and data infrastructure, including backtesting, pipelines and reproducible analysis over large historical datasets.
• Take models and strategies from prototype to production, tested, live and aligned with research.
• Analyze trading data to identify patterns and opportunities to improve pricing, hedging and execution.
• Research, backtest and calibrate improvements to our quantitative models and trading strategies.
• Expand the team's libraries of modelling, analytics and automation tools.
• Support the live trading system day to day, with monitoring and controls.

Skills

Java

C++

Python

End-to-end ownership

Statistics

Attention to detail

Team player

Markets interest

Education

Quantitative degree

Job description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in London invites engineers and scientists to join the Quantitative Trading & Research group focused on systematic models powering trading across FX, Rates, Commodities and Credit.

As an Analyst or Associate in the Rates team, you will design, build and operate production components of our swaps trading stack, backtest models, analyze data, and contribute to live trading with strong collaboration across teams.