Durlston Partners

Quantitative Researcher – APAC, US, Europe, London, UAE, Remote

Durlston Partners is working with several top-tier Systematic Trading firms that are looking for Quant Researchers, where you’ll develop statistical models, uncover market inefficiencies, and work closely with engineers and traders to bring strategies from idea to production.

What You’ll Do:

• Research, design, and test systematic trading strategies
• Analyse large, noisy datasets to identify predictive signals
• Build and refine models using statistical, ML, or econometric techniques
• Collaborate with engineering to deploy and monitor live strategies

What They’re Looking For:

• Strong quantitative background (math, physics, CS, statistics)
• Proficiency in Python, R, or similar research languages
• Experience with statistical modeling, time-series analysis, or machine learning
• Curiosity, rigor, and a passion for data-driven decision-making

Perks:

• Highly competitive pay and bonuses
• Cutting-edge tech and challenging problems
• Strong project ownership
• Great benefits package

How to Apply:

• Please apply to the advert to register your interest. Alternatively, please feel free to reach out to me for a confidential discussion: [email protected]

C++ Trading Engineer – Prop Trading Firm – Dubai, UAE – Greenfield Low-Latency Platform

Comp: USD $100k – 200k base DOE

Build something new from the ground up.

We’re partnering with a high-performing trading team embarking on an ambitious greenfield project – developing a next-generation, low-latency trading platform that connects directly to global exchanges across equities, derivatives, and commodities.

They’re looking for C++ Trading Engineers (varying levels of experience) who thrive on solving complex engineering problems and want to shape a new system from day one.

What You’ll Do

• Design and build ultra-low-latency, event-driven systems in C++ and Python.
• Develop exchange connectivity to leading markets including NSE, BSE, MCX, CME, and Gift City.
• Work on parallel programming, concurrency, and real-time data processing.
• Apply test-driven development and performance tuning to deliver clean, high-quality code.
• Collaborate with experienced engineers on a brand-new trading platform – no legacy systems, no red tape.

What You’ll Bring

• Strong experience in modern C++ and a solid grasp of Python.
• Deep understanding of low-latency design, multithreading, and event-driven architectures.
• Hands-on experience with FIX protocol or building connectivity to financial exchanges.
• Excellent troubleshooting and profiling skills for real-time systems.
• (Bonus) Familiarity with trading concepts, order flow, and market data structures.

What’s In It For You

• A greenfield environment where you can influence architecture, design, and technology choices.
• High-impact work – your code will directly power real-time trading on global markets.
• A collaborative, high-calibre team focused on technical excellence, not bureaucracy.
• Competitive compensation, strong career progression, and exposure to cutting-edge systems design.

Chief Legal Officer (CLO) – Europe Relocation (or 50% travel commitment) – Global Crypto HFT

Requirement: Strong mix of business & legal acumen

Package: £250k – £300k base + performance-based bonus (cash & equity)

Additional: Opportunity to purchase equity or invest directly in the fund

Location: Europe (relocation or 50% travel required), location confidential until initial call

Are you ready to shape the legal and regulatory strategy for one of the world’s most ambitious high-frequency crypto trading firms?

This Global Crypto HFT is already one of the largest by trading volume and are now looking for a Chief Legal Officer (CLO) to join their senior leadership team. You’ll be the firm’s legal compass, navigating complex global regulations, scaling processes to match hypergrowth, and working shoulder-to-shoulder with engineers, quants, and traders who thrive on pushing boundaries.

The Opportunity

• Lead the legal and regulatory agenda for a global HFT with multi-jurisdictional operations.
• Partner directly with founders and C-suite to shape strategy as the firm expands its international footprint.
• Drive engagement with regulators and advise on financial markets, derivatives, and securities law.
• Build and lead a world-class legal function to match the pace of a rapidly scaling trading firm.

About You

• 10+ years’ PQE, ideally qualified in a common law jurisdiction.
• Prior experience as CLO or General Counsel within trading, financial services, or digital assets.
• Deep understanding of capital markets, international structuring, and regulated activities.
• Resourceful, decisive, and unafraid to make calls with imperfect information.
• A natural communicator who values integrity, directness, and transparency.

Why This Firm?

• No politics, no fluff, a culture built on trust and radical transparency.
• A chance to own part of what you help build – with equity participation and investment options.
• Join a close-knit team of engineers, traders, and quants driven to become the world’s best crypto trading firm.

If you’re excited by complex challenges, regulatory grey zones, and the idea of building something enduring in crypto, this is where you belong.

Senior Data Engineer | Remote (UK or Europe)

A leading prop trading firm is hiring a Senior Data Engineer to take ownership of their trading and market data infrastructure. Operating globally with connectivity to dozens of exchanges, the firm executes millions of trades daily with data playing a mission-critical role in every aspect of the business.

This is a high-impact, high-autonomy role in a lean engineering environment. You’ll design and maintain real-time and historical data systems, power internal analytics tooling, and ensure data quality, reliability, and observability across production systems. Ideal for someone who thrives in fast-paced, trading-led environments where precision and performance are non-negotiable.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain low-latency distributed data pipelines
• Develop and run real-time time-series data collectors
• Automate monitoring and data quality checks
• Create tools and APIs for data access
• Collaborate with traders and developers on data needs
• Ensure 24/7 pipeline reliability

What We’re Looking For

• Strong Python and SQL
• Experience with trading/market data in production
• Proven work on real-time, high-volume pipelines
• Familiar with distributed SQL/NoSQL

Bonus Skills

• Clickhouse and S3/data lakes
• C++ on Linux
• Terraform or similar IaC
• Network protocols and exchange data

What’s on Offer

• Fully remote role (UK or Europe only)
• Flat structure, strong engineering culture
• Competitive base + performance-linked bonus
• Flexible working hours
• Biannual off-sites to meet the global team in person

You may not have previously been aware, but if you have skills which involve tuning trading logic for maximum performance in C++, you may have a new home in Dubai.

This team will be looking at you for your expertise around high-frequency trading algorithms. Deploying trading ideas in the market is what you’re likely to be known for, especially when you know how to improve other things like resource scheduling, data caching and how compute is distributed.

Other things you’ll be doing:

• Working within a Linux/Cloud environment with a strong focus on system and processor performance, networking, and distributed systems
• Balancing high-level architectural design with detailed low-level system optimization, ensuring fault tolerance, simplicity, and robustness
• Taking ownership of projects and contributing to the technical direction of research and trading platforms

Interestingly, you’ll be deploying strategies in an almost entirely cloud-based environment in this shop, so don’t see this role merely as a repeat of what you’re doing. Look at it as somewhere where you’ll be solving new quantitative trading problems and working with engineers who can teach you about the very interesting networking problems they’re solving as well.

Want to know more about a business with only 2 departures in 7 years (hint; this means they pay everyone very well)? Please apply to the link provided!

Client trading in crypto is an expensive business. If it’s not the cost of market leading technology, you’re certainly going to need a strong balance sheet to be taking seriously.

Thankfully, our client can boast about having both. This is a crypto trading firm which has an exceptional DNA; the world’s best technologists and traders have been reliably making money hand over fist for the past few years.

What this means, is that they are now looking to offer institutional clients with access to crypto liquidity in the US.

Your role in this setup, will be to build and manage client relationships, suggest/execute trades and drive revenue growth. In the words of who you’ll be working with: “I need someone who really knows how to get flow going!”

Your responsibilities?

• Client Acquisition & Relationship Management
• Trade Execution & Liquidity Provision
• Revenue Growth & Strategy
• Market Expertise & Thought Leadership
• Collaboration with Internal Teams

The expertise the team is looking for?

• 5+ years of experience in sales trading, execution services, or institutional coverage at a crypto trading firm
• Deep understanding of crypto markets (spot, futures, options, OTC) and trading dynamics.
• Existing network of institutional clients in crypto/traditional finance (strong rolodex required)
• Entrepreneurial mindset – comfortable being the first US hire and scaling the desk.

If you’re keen to take the bull by the horns and run with the buildout of a new desk, being compensated with maximum upside for the risk you’ll be assuming, please apply to the link.

Note: This is measured risk, given the firm has generated 9 figure profits with their on exchange trading activites.

A leading systematic hedge fund, known for its specialisation in FX market making, is expanding into the crypto space and hiring a Crypto Quant Trader to help drive this growth. This is a highly applied research role with full PnL ownership, reporting directly to the CIO.

What You’ll Do:

• Design and implement high-frequency, fully automated trading strategies
• Conduct market microstructure research across crypto spot, perps, and futures (no options)
• Build and refine trading infrastructure in collaboration with a small, expert team
• Operate in a greenfield build-out environment with room to scale a team over time

Who You Are:

• 3-10 years of experience in exchange market making (HFT only)
• Strong background in market microstructure research
• Python expertise (Java is a plus – core systems are in Java)
• TradFi background with a move or serious interest in crypto
• Builder mentality – someone who drives infrastructure and strategy

Team Vision:

• Crypto business currently in early build-out phase
• Opportunity to build out a team under you

For high-frequency researchers with a builder mindset and a passion for crypto market making, this is a rare ground-floor opportunity.

Do you dream in pointers and measure time away from your keyboard in clock-cycles?

If so, I’m working with a development team for whom latency isn’t a metric, it’s treated as an existential crisis. They will need you (person who unironically loves 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐫) to continue shaving off micros until they’re down into the nanos.

They treat undefined behaviour for C++2a and C++2b like a personal insult and will be very keen to hear if you have made 𝐬𝐭𝐝::𝐜𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐨 cry before. Other things that matter to them would be experience with lock-free programming and strong networking chops (gm Mr./Mrs. Kernel Bypass).

Bonus points if you’ve used 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟 to format your morning routine as well!

What this team offers in return:

• A comically powerful compute estate
• No legacy code (okay, maybe 1 or 2 𝐠𝐨𝐭𝐨 statements)
• A nerf gun arsenal for settling debates about RAII vs. GC
• Free therapy sessions (just kidding—valgrind –tool=callgrind is your therapy

We’re working with a crypto trading firm which prides itself on having some of the most high performance trading infrastructure in the industry. Sure, there are limits to how fast the orders can reach an exchange but this team has future-proofed its infra all the same. 

So what skills do these engineers have and what would they like you to share expertise in?

They’ve come from firms where the work they did was measured in nanos, not micros and typically have the following skills:

Optimising hardware for performance (CPU / GPU).

• Can you leverage SIMD and multiple cores?

Exceptional memory management skills.

• Would you know why reference-counted smart pointers (e.g., std::shared_ptr) still lead to memory leaks?

Networking skills which reduce OS kernel involvement for direct hardware access. 

• When comparing RDMA and DPDK; which one is your go-to for HFT?

The team has not lost any Engineers since they joined the team. What does this tell us? They are paid market-leading compensation and the work they do is intellectually stimulating enough, that they don’t need to go elsewhere for the most fun challenges in crypto trading.

Prior experience in HFT is heavily preferred but if you have a strong track record solving these problems outside of that niche, you may still have a shot!

Work authorisation in Singapore and the US will be required. Sponsorship is available for exceptional candidates to relocate to the UK.

Imagine joining a team of elite engineers, quants, and traders at the forefront of digital asset trading. This is your chance to step into an all-hands-on-deck start-up environment where cutting-edge technology meets high-performance finance.

This company, backed by some of the world’s most renowned VCs, is on a mission to redefine liquidity provisioning in the digital asset space. Their proprietary high-frequency trading (HFT) technology, built with advanced machine learning and stochastic control, gives them an edge in both centralized and decentralized markets. Now, they’re scaling their technology across the full crypto infrastructure value chain, and they need you to help make it happen.

The Role: Fullstack Engineer

In the first six months, you’ll be fully immersed, working side-by-side with traders and developers, delivering quick, high-impact solutions. This isn’t just about writing code, it’s about architecting and optimizing the very foundations of the company’s trading and infrastructure.

• Build and connect – Develop internal tools, improve trading infrastructure, and create seamless integrations across trading, finance, and compliance.
• Move fast, think smart – Tackle immediate deliverables while laying the groundwork for scalable, long-term solutions.
• Sit with the traders – Work directly with the Head of OTC Trading, a seasoned pro with a background in FX and traditional finance, who moves fast and provides direct feedback.
• Shape the company’s future – In a team of just 15, everyone plays a pivotal role. Your contributions will be visible and impactful from day one.

What You Bring:

• Must-have: Python (core backend; this isn’t a web dev role) & JavaScript
• Big plus: AWS and Pulumi / GUI development experience
• Good to have: Some C++ exposure
• Education: A strong academic background in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or a related quantitative discipline.
• Mindset matters: Entrepreneurial. Proactive. Ready to own problems and build solutions. This isn’t for someone who waits for direction, you’ll thrive if you take initiative and love a challenge.

Why Join?

• Work with an elite team of builders and innovators in an ultra-fast-moving space.
• Direct access to leadership, no red tape, just execution.
• A once-in-a-career opportunity to shape a company’s trajectory in a high-growth industry.

This is an urgent hire, the team needs this person now. If you’re ready to dive in and build the future of digital asset trading, let’s talk.

Apply now! If you don’t receive a response within three days, unfortunately, your application has not been successful.

A crypto trading firm is on the lookout for Python Software Engineers to join their dynamic team. Specialising in quantitative trading, this firm is empowering blockchain projects and traditional financial institutions to thrive.

As a Python Software Engineer, you’ll work alongside developers, traders, and quantitative researchers on high impact projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain systems for trading data, automated settlements, and real-time reconciliation.
• Work with cross-functional teams to enhance infrastructure and data systems.
• Ensure performance, scalability, and reliability of services.

Looking For

• 2+ years of Python experience and familiarity with C++ is a bonus.
• Experience with SQL databases and Linux.

If you’re a proactive, passionate developer with an interest in crypto, we want to hear from you! We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds and value potential over experience, if you’re eager to learn, we’re here to support you.

Note: If you don’t hear back within 3 days, your application was unfortunately not successful.

A top Crypto Quant fund (backed by TradFi) is looking to hire a Quantitative Researcher to spearhead their Execution research function. This is a unique opportunity to be the first dedicated hire in this area, with the potential to shape and lead execution strategies and infrastructure.

Role Overview

As the Execution Quantitative Researcher, you will play a pivotal role in establishing and advancing execution research efforts. This is an exciting opportunity to be the inaugural hire in this domain, allowing you to define and lead our execution strategies from the ground up and learn on the job.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategy Development: Create and enhance execution strategies aimed at capitalising on new alpha signals over various time frames, ranging from seconds to hours.
• Slippage Minimisation: Optimise order placement and scheduling techniques to effectively reduce slippage during trades.
• Market Impact Modeling: Develop comprehensive market impact models and seamlessly integrate them into the portfolio optimisation framework.
• Backtesting Validation: Leverage internal trading data to validate and improve backtesting engines, ensuring robust performance analysis.
• Collaborative Research: Work closely with fellow researchers to contribute to the overall development of trading strategies and methodologies

Qualifications and Skills

• 2-8 years in Quant trading and Execution Research
• Strong background in market microstructure analysis, transaction cost analysis (TCA), and simulator design
• Proficient in Python; C++ knowledge is a plus
• Familiarity with utility function design, rules-based logic for order execution, and multi-period optimization preferred
• Advanced degree in a quantitative field (e.g., Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics)
• Crypto trading experience is a plus but not required

Work remotely and build the orderbook for a decentralised exchange in Rust!

Did employers learn nothing from the pandemic, for what they need to do to gain access to some of the best Software Engineers in the world? If you’re currently working for a firm which isn’t continuing to give you the flexibility you’d like; this could be a good fit for you.

You’ll be joining a lean team of engineers who are predominantly based in Europe, so it’ll be useful for you to be based -/+ 3 hours from UTC. They pride themselves on bullet-proof computer science fundamentals, collaboratively solving problems and shipping new features for a decentralised trading venue.

What can they be flexible on?

You might currently speak fluent C++ or Java but they’d be happy to interview you, providing you’re happy with the following points:

1. You back yourself to complete an interview process in Rust (which will include a take home assignment)
2. You have built a high performance execution engine in either crypto or TradFi before

What they can’t be flexible on?

1. You needing an office
2. Sponsorship; you’ll need to have the right to work where you are based currently
3. If you have no experience building an execution engine before

Keen to work remotely and develop expertise in Rust’s ecosytem whilst building one of the most promising projects in DeFi? Please apply!

Become employee #9 for a DeFi Exchange?

When it comes to teams in the crypto space, not all are made equal. Some don’t have the right backing, because the market doesn’t want what they’re building. Others have great backing but don’t have the right execution.

This team has the right backing AND the right execution. I’ve been recruiting for crypto firms for almost 8 years and have yet to see a team backed by so many of the biggest names in the industry, with real A-players responsible for building the product.

Sure, the headcount is currently small but the backing is mighty and there are unlikely to be many opportunities giving you the chance to have this amount of impact.

“Cool, so what will I be doing?”

You’ll be employee #9 of a firm building brand new services which will be powering onchain transactions. It’s likely to be a good fit for you if you love owning and shipping new features as quickly as possible, especially if you’d like to do so using modern web technologies. This may include:

• Creating a real-time UI for use by external trading counterparties, ensuring load times that are as fast as possible
• Implementing Web3 functionality; interacting with smart contracts, and handling transactions using libraries like web3.js or ethers.js

“How do I know if I’m a good fit?”

• You’ve built high-performance UIs for real-time systems before; it’s likely you’ll have done this in the quantitative trading space
• You’re comfortable working asynchronously with remote team members
• You pride yourself on having bullet-proof Computer Science fundamentals which may or may not have come from a top school
• You know modern JavaScript frameworks inside out and have a strong track record creating dynamic and scalable UIs
• You have a demonstrable interest in working in crypto to tackle novel engineering problems

Options Strategist

A senior team is looking for an Options Strategist to join their mission of establishing a comprehensive options trading capability. This team focuses on systematic options trading within the group and aims to implement strategies across a wide array of asset classes, including equities, FX, and commodities. The strategist will be instrumental in developing options trading strategies that align with the fund portfolio. This is a pivotal moment to join, with the team and platform in the early stages, offering an opportunity to influence the future direction.

Key Responsibilities:

• Identify trading opportunities by analyzing market trends
• Engage in alpha research and strategy development, including idea generation and quantitative analysis
• Conduct extensive back-testing and performance evaluation
• Execute systematic trading with medium holding periods
• Initially concentrate on equities, with plans to expand into FX and commodities

Essential Qualifications:

• Proven experience in executing systematic options trading strategies
• Advanced degree (MSc/PhD) in a quantitative field such as Computer/Data Science, Physics, Statistics, Applied Math, or Finance
• Over 5 years of experience in financial markets
• Strong programming skills in Python, R, or similar languages
• Entrepreneurial mindset and approach