New York, New York, United States

Quant Engineer – Electronic Trading & Risk – New York

 Job Description:

We are partnering with a leading trading and financial technology firm looking to hire experienced Quant Engineers to join high-performing teams in New York.

The role will focus across quantitative engineering, electronic trading, execution systems development, working closely with traders, quants, and technology teams.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and enhance scalable trading and quantitative platforms
  • Develop high-performance Java-based systems for analytics, execution, and risk processing
  • Work closely with trading desks and quantitative teams to implement business and trading requirements
  • Build and optimize real-time data pipelines and analytics infrastructure
  • Improve system performance, reliability, and scalability
  • Support and enhance live trading and risk environments

Requirements

  • Strong Java development experience within trading or financial markets environments
  • Experience working on trading systems, execution platforms, or quantitative/risk infrastructure
  • Understanding of market data, real-time systems, and distributed architectures
  • Experience with low latency or high-performance systems is beneficial
  • Strong communication and problem-solving skills

Preferred

  • Exposure to execution trading, electronic trading, or market making environments
  • Experience within risk engineering, pricing, or quantitative analytics platforms
  • Knowledge of asset classes such as equities, derivatives, FX, or digital assets
  • Familiarity with cloud infrastructure or DevOps tooling is a plus

Location: New York
Compensation: Competitive base + bonus

  Required Skills:

Java