Equity Quantitative Developer

Salary: £54,000 - 94,000 per year

Requirements:

• Advanced Java programming skills, including low-latency Java approaches such as lock-free data structures and low-garbage programming techniques.
• Proven experience designing and implementing low-latency, high-throughput, event-driven algorithmic trading platforms.
• Strong business knowledge of electronic trading, ideally Cash Equities and EU / US / Asia market structure.
• Experience collaborating with quantitative traders to design and implement algorithmic trading models and controls.
• Experience producing model documentation and partnering with governance and second line of defence functions.
• Beneficial to have low-level experience with messaging libraries and protocols including Aeron, Kafka, EMS, SBE, FIX, ITCH, and OUCH.
• Familiarity with time-series databases, preferably KDB, and Python for building analytics and reports.
• Full stack development experience is an advantage, preferably React, particularly for building monitoring dashboards and trader-facing tools.
• Curiosity to explore how AI can improve how we build, deliver, and optimize workflows, with sound judgment and alignment to policies, risk standards, and ethical use.

Responsibilities:

• Join our Cash Equities CRB Quantitative Developer team within UBS Global Markets.
• Help develop and enhance our best-in-class Cash Equities platform.
• Operate within our Global Markets Principal Flow Trading stream and business reporting line.
• Take ownership of initiatives from initial analysis through to design, implementation, and delivery.
• Proactively suggest and drive improvements to our platform and framework.
• Work across all aspects of algorithmic trading, including market connectivity, hedging, risk management, execution strategies, analytics, latency analysis, optimisation, and enhancement of our proprietary eTrading framework.
• Collaborate within a fast-paced, highly technical, innovative, agile, and diverse quant development team.
• Release to production multiple times per day and help drive meaningful change.
• Partner with traders and relevant control functions to support model design, implementation, and documentation.

Technologies:

• AI
• Flow
• Support
• Java
• Kafka
• Python
• Quant
• React

More:

We are UBS, a leading and truly global wealth manager and the leading universal bank in Switzerland, with diversified asset management solutions and focused investment banking capabilities. Our Cash Equities CRB Quantitative Developer team sits within our Global Markets Principal Flow Trading stream in London, and we operate in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment. We value innovation, automation, performance, and teamwork, and we offer new challenges, a supportive team, opportunities to grow, and flexible working options when possible. We welcome applications from career returners and are committed to disability inclusion, equal opportunity, and an inclusive culture.

last updated 34 week of 2026