Senior Quantitative Trader: Market-Making & Research Lead

iSAM; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

iSAM is a leading quantitative trading firm with exchange market making activities across FX, metals and Crypto, based in London. We seek an experienced Quantitative Trader to shape and develop our market-making capabilities, working with researchers, engineers and infrastructure specialists to drive strategy and capacity growth.

This senior role offers leadership opportunities and a pathway to research leadership within the firm.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in a quantitative field.
• Significant experience in quantitative research for exchange market making.
• Strong domain expertise in market microstructure and electronic limit-order-book markets.
• Experience researching strategies using high-frequency market data at tick, order, or message level.
• Strong statistical and mathematical modelling skills.
• Experience taking quantitative research from hypothesis to deployment and monitoring.
• Excellent Python skills; exposure to C++ desirable.

Responsibilities

• Research and develop exchange market-making and OTC inventory liquidation strategies across FX, precious metals, futures and Crypto markets.
• Analyse limit-order-book behaviour, order flow, queue dynamics, liquidity, adverse selection, and short-term price formation.
• Build rigorous research methodologies, including realistic simulation and back testing.
• Monitor live strategy performance and identify opportunities to improve profitability, robustness, capacity, and operational resilience.
• Investigate venue-specific behaviour, matching-engine mechanics, fee structures, ticksizes, market participants, and market-quality differences.
• Establish strong standards for research quality, reproducibility, and model governance.
• Contribute to the firm’s broader trading, risk, and technology roadmap.
• Over time, recruit, mentor, and lead a team of quantitative traders.

Skills

Python

C++

Quantitative analysis

Leadership potential

Education

Advanced degree in quantitative field

Tools

Python tooling

Backtesting framework

High-frequency data analysis

Data visualization

Job description

iSAM is a leading quantitative trading firm with exchange market making activities across FX, metals and Crypto, based in London. We seek an experienced Quantitative Trader to shape and develop our market-making capabilities, working with researchers, engineers and infrastructure specialists to drive strategy and capacity growth.

This senior role offers leadership opportunities and a pathway to research leadership within the firm.