Quantitative Developer - Execution Services

London, UK Until 8/22/2026 First posted April 28, 2025 Last posted April 28, 2025
Job description
Quantitative Developer - Execution Services

    The Execution Services team is responsible for trade execution across a wide range of products and geographies, with a focus on minimizing trading costs and execution risk.

    We are looking for a highly driven, results oriented Quantitative Developer to join our team focusing on execution analytics & transaction cost analysis (TCA). We are at the forefront of industry-leading initiatives applying technology, quantitative analysis, and data-driven methodologies to our execution process.

    Principal Responsibilities

    • Collaborate with key stakeholders across Execution Services including quants and traders, to deliver key models & metrics, and to guide the overall direction & design of the platform.
    • Make large contributions to the codebase, working in an iterative and dynamic environment.
    • Support, maintain and test own code following best-practices including unit testing, documentation and automation within typical CI processes.

    Qualifications/Skills Required

    • 7+ years of KDB in a Quantitative Finance setting.
    • Highly analytical and strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
    • Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical and sophisticated concepts clearly and concisely.
    • Experience with execution analytics and global equities research highly preferred.
    • Experience with Python, ML, pykx or cloud tooling is a bonus.
    About this role

    Summary

    Develop execution analytics models and support codebase in a dynamic environment.

    Job title

    Quantitative Developer - Execution Services

    Experience level

    7+ years

    Industry

    finance

    Location requirements

    Located in London, remote work not allowed.

    Salary

    Not specified

    Management role

    No

    Skills & keywords

    Required skills

    KDBanalyticalproblem-solvingcommunication

    Preferred skills

    execution analyticsglobal equitiesPythonMLpykxcloud tooling

    Specializations

    quantitative financeexecution analyticstransaction cost analysisKDBPython
    Locations

    Structured locations inferred from the posting.

    London, UK

    On-site City