Quantitative Trader

TUM International GmbH; City of London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A trading and technology firm in the City of London seeks individuals for a quantitative trading role. You will analyze market signals, develop trading strategies, and work within a collaborative environment alongside experienced traders. The ideal candidates are critical thinkers who enjoy solving complex problems and are eager to learn new skills. The role emphasizes teamwork and technological innovation, providing significant training and responsibilities early on.

Qualifications

• Strong quantitative mind with critical thinking.
• Proactive and reliable with strong communication skills.
• Enjoys teamwork and solving interesting problems.

Responsibilities

• Identify market signals and analyze strategies.
• Build algorithmic trading systems and manage risk.
• Participate in hands-on training and educational curriculum.

Skills

Critical thinking

Quantitative analysis

Collaborative problem-solving

Strong organizational skills

Effective communication

Tools

Programming experience

Job description

About the position
At Jane Street, quantitative traders identifymarket signals, analyze and execute strategies,construct quantitative models, conduct statisticalanalyses, build algorithmic trading systems,manage risk, develop new businesses, and more.

Our trading desks are central to ourcollaborative and cooperative office environment.You can expect to work side by side withexperienced traders who are committed to teaching,guiding, and supporting our newest hires. Throughhands-on, interactive training, you’ll acquiresignificant trading responsibilities within weeks to months of being on the desk. In parallel, youwill participate in our robust year-long firmwideeducational curriculum.

At Jane Street, the lines between research,technology, and trading are intentionally blurry.As our strategies grow more sophisticated, closecollaboration is essential for continuing to pushthe boundaries of what’s possible. We work withpetabytes of data, a computing cluster withhundreds of thousands of cores, and a growing GPUcluster containing thousands of high-end GPUs. Wedon’t believe in “one-size-fits-all” modelingsolutions; we are open to and excited aboutapplying all different types of statistical and MLtechniques, from linear models to deep learning,depending on what best fits a given problem.

About you
If you’ve never thought about a career in finance,you’re in good company. Many of us were in thesame position before working here. We’re lookingfor smart people who enjoy solving interestingproblems, and we’re more interested in how youthink and learn than what you currently know. Youshould be:

• A critical thinker with a strongquantitative mind
• A collaborative problem-solver who enjoysworking on a team
• Proactive, reliable, and courteous withstrong organizational and communication skills
• Eager to ask questions, admit mistakes,and learn new things

A profitable trading strategy is only as strongas the technology it runs on, and we considerourselves as much a technology company as atrading firm. General programming experience is aplus, but knowing a particular programminglanguage is not required.

If you’d like to learn more, you can read aboutour interview process and meet some of theteam.