VP C++ Quant Developer, Electronic Rates (Strats)

London, hybrid (4 days office) | Up to £320,000 total compensation

A leading electronic rates trading desk in London is hiring a VP-level C++ quant developer into its strats team. This is a front-office, desk-facing role writing the core trading and pricing logic behind a systematic market-making business. It is not a platform or infrastructure seat.

You'll sit with the traders and write the strategies and pricing models that actually trade, across products like SOFR, EURIBOR and SONIA futures, EGBs and US Treasuries. It's a mix of greenfield build in modern C++ and evolving a live production platform, and the coverage is expanding.

What you'll do

• Write the core trading, pricing and market-making strategy logic in modern C++ (17/20/23)
• Build greenfield components while improving the live production platform
• Work directly with traders, turning strategy ideas into production code
• Own performance across the trading path

What we're looking for

• Strong, hands-on modern C++ in a production trading environment
• Experience writing trading strategies, pricing or execution logic yourself, close to a desk
• A real understanding of markets and the business, not just the technology
• Around 5+ years, VP-calibre

Asset class is open. Rates or fixed income is ideal, but strong strat-developers from FX or electronic equities are equally welcome, since the mindset transfers.

Nice to have

• Rates, fixed income or futures electronic trading
• Systematic market-making or quoting experience
• Greenfield build experience

Just so it's clear, this role is not:

• A market data, exchange connectivity or infrastructure seat, that sits with a separate team
• A pure quant research, risk or pricing-library role

This seat writes the strategies that trade.

Process
A short, senior process: a first-round conversation with the hiring manager, then one further stage. No lengthy take-home tests.