Quant Engineer Electronic Trading & Risk New York

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