Trading firms rarely advertise, but they are known for paying at the very top of the market: base salaries, bonuses and engineering teams that compete with anyone. This is every quant firm, market maker and systematic fund I track in Europe, picked by what they do. I only list €100k+ roles, refreshed daily from their career pages.
Right now 21 companies among the quant and trading firms have 346 open roles in Europe, most at QRT, G-Research and Squarepoint Capital.
By Felix · roles refreshed daily from company career pages55 open roles
Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) is a global quantitative hedge fund with major engineering hubs in London, Paris, Amsterdam, and Zurich. One of the most active EU tech hirers in the quant space—they post hundreds of roles across software engineering, data engineering, FPGA, infrastructure, and security. Senior engineers earn £91–134K in London and comparable in Paris/Amsterdam.
See QRT's 55 roles →49 open roles
G-Research is a London quantitative research and technology firm that runs one of the largest private compute platforms in Europe. Nearly all engineering is in London: software, infrastructure, Kubernetes, networking, security, and ML engineers, plus quantitative and ML researchers.
See G-Research's 49 roles →40 open roles
Squarepoint Capital is a global quantitative hedge fund with engineering offices in London, Warsaw, Madrid, and Geneva. They hire software developers for data infrastructure, quant platforms, and trading systems in Python, C++, and KDB+. Compensation is at the high end for European quant firms—£82–150K TC in London, with Warsaw and Madrid roles also well above market.
See Squarepoint Capital's 40 roles →28 open roles
Jane Street is a quantitative trading firm famous for running its entire stack in OCaml. The London office hires software engineers, FPGA/ASIC hardware engineers, Linux and network engineers, cybersecurity engineers, and ML researchers.
See Jane Street's 28 roles →26 open roles
DRW is a Chicago-born proprietary trading firm with a large London engineering office and a smaller one in Amsterdam. Engineers work on C++ and Python trading platforms, FPGA development, cloud and Linux infrastructure, and crypto systems for its Cumberland arm.
See DRW's 26 roles →22 open roles
Optiver is a global market maker headquartered in Amsterdam. They're one of the most technically sophisticated trading firms in the world, with deep expertise in low-latency systems, quantitative research, and infrastructure engineering. Their Amsterdam office is the HQ and a major engineering hub.
See Optiver's 22 roles →21 open roles
Susquehanna International Group (SIG) is a global quantitative trading firm founded in Philadelphia and one of the largest options market makers. Its European technology hub is in Dublin, where software, trading-systems, site-reliability and data engineers build and run the firm's trading platform.
See Susquehanna (SIG)'s 21 roles →19 open roles
Hudson River Trading is an algorithmic trading firm whose London office builds low-latency C++ trading systems, HPC and GPU infrastructure, hardware design, and AI research tooling, with a smaller trading-support team in Dublin. Most roles are posted for London alongside the US offices. Postings list $200–300K base.
See Hudson River Trading's 19 roles →16 open roles
Point72 is Steve Cohen's hedge fund, and its Warsaw office is a real engineering hub building trading, treasury, compliance, and market-intelligence data platforms, with quant developers and researchers in London. Roles cover software engineering, data and platform engineering, and quantitative development for its Cubist systematic arm.
See Point72's 16 roles →14 open roles
IMC is a Dutch market maker headquartered in Amsterdam, with a digital-assets engineering team in Zug. They hire C++, Java, and Python software engineers, performance engineers, HPC systems architects, ML engineers, and quant developers.
See IMC's 14 roles →13 open roles
Jump Trading is a Chicago-based quantitative trading firm with engineering and research teams in London, Amsterdam, and Paris. They hire HPC and systems engineers, SREs, FPGA engineers, ML research engineers, and quantitative researchers. An Amsterdam SRE posting lists €150–175K.
See Jump Trading's 13 roles →9 open roles
Flow Traders is an Amsterdam-headquartered ETF market maker listed on Euronext, with engineering teams in Amsterdam and London. They hire senior C++ software engineers, staff engineers for trading automation and backend platforms, research engineers, and engineering managers.
See Flow Traders's 9 roles →9 open roles
Wintermute is one of the largest algorithmic trading firms in crypto, providing liquidity across most digital-asset exchanges and OTC. Engineering is in London: C++ and Python developers building low-latency trading systems, plus ML and quant researchers.
See Wintermute's 9 roles →6 open roles
Man Group is the world's largest publicly listed hedge fund, headquartered in London, where its AHL and Systematic teams run quantitative strategies on an open-source-friendly Python stack (they built ArcticDB). London roles include quantitative developers, Python and systems engineers, and quant researchers.
See Man Group's 6 roles →5 open roles
Tower Research Capital is a high-frequency trading firm with engineering offices in London and Amsterdam. They hire software engineers and quantitative developers for low-latency market infrastructure. London roles pay £117–188K. One of the largest HFT firms globally.
See Tower Research Capital's 5 roles →4 open roles
Maven Securities is a London-based options market-making firm with an Amsterdam office. They hire C++, Python, and platform engineers for low-latency trading systems. Senior engineers earn £99–180K. Small team, high impact—if you want to work close to the trading systems at a prop shop with genuine EU presence, Maven is worth a look.
See Maven Securities's 4 roles →3 open roles
GSA Capital is a London-based quantitative trading firm. Small, technical team focused on systematic strategies. Senior software engineers earn £101–184K. They don't post many roles but when they do, they're looking for strong engineers who can work close to the trading systems.
See GSA Capital's 3 roles →3 open roles
Virtu Financial is a NASDAQ-listed market maker whose European engineering is centred in Dublin, with a smaller team in London. Dublin hires full-stack developers, FPGA hardware engineers, and quantitative strategists, and London hires Java software engineers.
See Virtu Financial's 3 roles →2 open roles
XTX Markets is a London-based algorithmic trading firm and one of the largest liquidity providers in global markets, running on a massive in-house GPU research cluster. Engineering is in London: C++ software engineers, ML performance engineers, and security and shared-platform engineers.
See XTX Markets's 2 roles →1 open role
Five Rings is a proprietary trading firm with offices in London and Amsterdam. They hire software developers and systems engineers who work on low-latency trading infrastructure in C++ and Python. Compensation is at the top end of the market—£137–198K TC for London roles.
See Five Rings's role →1 open role
Old Mission Capital is a global market-making firm with a London engineering office. Their C++ and Python engineers work on options and ETF market-making systems. One of the higher-paying firms in the space—$230K+ total comp for experienced engineers.
See Old Mission Capital's role →
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