VP, Quantitative Developer

Company:  Morgan McKinley
Location: London
Closing Date: 07/07/2026
Hours: Full Time
Type: Permanent

Job Description

🚀 VP, Quantitative Developer | London

I'm partnering with a highly innovative electronic trading business operating at the intersection of quantitative finance, market structure, and next-generation digital markets.

The team is looking for a Quantitative Developer to work directly alongside traders, quants, and engineers, building and optimising market making and systematic trading strategies within a real-time trading environment.


Key responsibilities:

▪ Build and optimise quantitative trading models and execution logic

▪ Develop high-performance Java-based trading systems

▪ Work closely with traders to translate strategy into production code

▪ Integrate and process real-time market data feeds

▪ Improve latency, scalability, and resilience across live trading infrastructure

▪ Contribute to greenfield trading initiatives and new market opportunities


Ideal background:

✔ Strong Java development experience

✔ Experience within algorithmic trading, eTrading, FX, or digital asset markets

✔ Low-latency and high-performance systems expertise

✔ Tick data analytics and market data processing

✔ Quantitative modelling and systematic trading exposure

✔ Experience supporting production trading environments


Particular interest in individuals who enjoy solving complex market microstructure problems and building systems that operate at scale in fast-moving markets.

London-based.


If you'd like to learn more, feel free to get in touch.

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