Quant Capital

About the Company

Executive Search and Recruitment to the Quantitative Trading and Financial Technology space.

We provide a discrete search capability for the best known and most prestigious Hedge Funds & Prop Trading firms in the world.

Our specialized experience, market knowledge, extensive network, and commitment to client service ensure that every search is conducted effectively.

Quant Capital has been the Recruitment Partner to the Fintech50 for many years.

Our goal is to be recognised as a partner to the most interesting trading and financial technology businesses in the market.

Listed Jobs

Company Name

Quant Capital

Job Title

Windows Powershell Specialist

Job Description

Windows Engineer with PowerShell specilisation– Quant Trading

£100,000-150,000 plus benefits and bonus Hybrid

Quant Capital is urgently looking for a Windows PowerShell Engineer to join our high-profile client.

This is an environment of Google or a startup where tech is number 1 with a huge budget allocated towards technology. The firm is known globally for its attitudes and rigour more importantly, you will be surrounded by smart people deeply interested learning and in teaching what they know, as well as learning from you.

My client is a very well know quantitative trading firm and marketmaker. This team has some of the best minds in Windows and Powershell Engineering.

My client has a mixed Windows and Linux environment spread across physical and virtual machines. This position suits a talented Windows Engineer with an appetite to fidn the best way to solve a problem and a strong level of Powershell programming and automation focus.

As an Engineer you will focus on platform engineering designs, maintaining the firm's operating systems, authentication systems, databases, virtualization infrastructure, core network services, and messaging as well as endpoints on Windows and Linux in both our internal- and external-facing environments.

You will will be tasked with the design, implementation, and integration of infrastructure systems, on Windows-based systems

The ideal Windows Engineer will have:
A STEM degree
Significant Windows systems automation experience is required.
Powershell (ideally some c# exposure)
An in-depth understanding of the Windows platform and related technologies (e.g., Active Directory and Failover Clustering) is required, as are excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills, and familiarity with a variety of tracing tools.
Experience with common Windows Server applications and management tools (e.g., Exchange, SQL, SCCM, Hyper-V, and ADFS, etc.) is also preferred.
A working knowledge of network protocols, Linux, and information security concepts is
Experience integrating systems across on-premises and cloud-based environments
Experience working with containers on Windows and Linux is preferred.
This role suits a candidate who has had responsibility early on in their career, someone who has worked in smaller agile companies with continual change. You must be hands-on and have excellent experience of working in a demanding or jack-of-all-trades but a specialist environment. You will also be a techie motivated by technology. In return, you will be rewarded with an excellent culture, work-life balance, benefits and remuneration.

My client is based in London

London, United Kingdom

Remote

18-02-2025

Company Name

Quant Capital

Job Title

Infrastructure Engineer

Job Description

Infrastructure Engineer Quant Trading Firm

Contract - 6 Months Outside IR35 - 5 days in the office

Quant Capital is urgently looking for an Infrastructure Engineer to join our high profile client.
Our client is a $500 million strong systematic quant commodity trading fund with excellent recent performance.

The role will involve all aspects of support from desktop to cloud in a trading environment, reporting directly to the Chief Investment Officer and Head of Development. The role needs strong communication skills as this will involve work with the trading business.
The environment is that of Facebook or Google, relaxed open with time to think and make the right decisions. The atmosphere is calm and relaxed with an open dress code. This is a role for techies, those who are motivated by the sharp end of technology and the possibility of making serious money doing something you are passionate about.

Responsibilities:
Ensuring seamless operation while setting up a scalable IT platform
Managing cloud & on-prem infrastructure
Ensuring exceptional front-line user support, with a particular focus on the trading desk
Responsibility for incident management
Coordinating business continuity planning and testing

Infrastructure Engineers MUST have:
A BSc in computing or another STEM subject
Experience supporting a trading desk
Windows
Some basic Linux
Azure
Experience managing highly available infrastructure including infrastructure-as-code
Experience managing and prioritising multiple deliverables in a real-time environment
The ability to communicate precisely and efficiently with senior and executive stakeholders
Experience selecting and managing external partners

Our client is based in London

London, United Kingdom

On site

18-02-2025

Company Name

Quant Capital

Job Title

Graduate Trading Operations Engineer

Job Description

Graduate Trading Operations Engineer - Quant Trading

Immediate or Autumn start

Quant Capital is urgently looking for a Graduate Trade Desk Engineer to join our high profile client.

Our client is a top-tier global proprietary trading firm that leverages the latest technology, sophisticated algorithms and deep knowledge to trade in capital markets globally.

This is an environment of science and intellectuals. The firm is known globally for its attitudes and rigour more importantly, you will be surrounded by smart entrepreneurial people deeply interested in the sector who are ready to teach what they know.

We are looking for a junior or graduate with sub 2 years of experience and the ability to deal with quick, difficult maths problems. You will interface with various groups within the business to ensure that all trades are reflected accurately in all systems. Specifically, the Trade Desk Engineer Analyst will be involved with research, rapid development execution of trade orders, automation of processes, and personal projects.

This position sits directly in a trading team and is a highly sought-after role. The role requires close collaboration with the traders, researchers and technical parts of the business to best align technical solutions with the schedules and analytic needs of various strategies.

This is a role for someone with a strong level of applied mathematics or engineering with an interest in solving problems and working in a fast-paced, rewarding environment.

Trade Desk Operations Analyst MUST have:
A at A-level Maths or equivalent
Excellent Excel skills
Logical thought processes
A STEM degree from a top ranked University
An interest and some coding ability (VBA, Ruby, Go, Lua, Scala, Python or C++ or OO Language)
An appetite for delivering solutions to complex problem

My client is based in London

London, United Kingdom

Remote

18-02-2025

Company Name

Quant Capital

Job Title

Java Developer Contract

Job Description

Senior Java Engineer – Hedge Fund
£1000 per day Contract Outside IR35
Jan Start
Hybrid

Quant Capital is urgently looking for a Senior Java Engineer to join our high profile client.

Our client is a well known Systematic Trading Hedge Fund. They like technology especially the opensource variety as well as scalability and robust performance (much like their track record). They currently run around £2 billion in liquid capital.

The business has expanded continuously and is building a new risk engine for their systematic fund clients. This role will be working with a large distributed system (Built in Java) automating a large volume of realtime data into a portfolio management system. I am looking for a proficient developer with good data knowledge and an understanding of latency.
I am looking for an engineer with strong core Java knowledge who is happy to learn risk. You should be happy to expand a data platform from scratch with some serious help on the financial side.
The Java Engineer Must have:

2:1 Computer Science degree
15+ years plus commercial development experience
Strong and demonstrable low-level Java experience
Strong Database skills
AWS
Code generation
Currently using Java 8 +
Object orientated programming, threading, concurrency and distributed systems



My client is based in Central London but does not require office work unless a core meeting is called.

Distributed Systems , Scale, Java, EC2, DevOps, Linux, AWS, Java, CLoudwatch

London, United Kingdom

On site

26-02-2025