Remote Financial Engineer: Alpha & Signal Trading

Harrington Starr; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Profit sharing

Fully remote within UK

Job summary

Harrington Starr in the UK is seeking a Financial Engineer to sit close to the trading function within its trading and research technology team. This role focuses on alpha and signal research systems, not pure ML research, and involves building production-quality software used directly in trading.

You will work with traders and researchers, leverage AI tooling, and handle market data to understand strategies and execution. Fully remote within the UK, with some after-hours flexibility.

Qualifications

• 0-4 years' commercial experience in software engineering or quantitative development.
• Strong fundamental software engineering ability.
• Solid understanding of financial markets and trading concepts.
• Interest in quantitative/systematic trading.
• Comfortable in fast-moving, high-pressure markets.
• Language-agnostic; focus on engineering ability over one language.
• Experience using modern AI development tools.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve alpha and signal research systems.
• Develop software and tooling used within the investment and trading process.
• Collaborate with traders and researchers to understand strategies.
• Leverage AI tooling to accelerate engineering and research.
• Work with market data to build robust, production-quality systems.
• Understand trade execution and market structure.
• Take ownership in a small, fast-moving environment.

Skills

Software engineering

Financial markets

Analytical ability

Problem solving

AI tooling

Trading concepts

Ownership

Tools

AI development tools

Job description

Harrington Starr in the UK is seeking a Financial Engineer to sit close to the trading function within its trading and research technology team. This role focuses on alpha and signal research systems, not pure ML research, and involves building production-quality software used directly in trading.

You will work with traders and researchers, leverage AI tooling, and handle market data to understand strategies and execution. Fully remote within the UK, with some after-hours flexibility.