Rates E-Trading Strat

Location: London, UK; hybrid working with at least four days per week or 80% of working time at the London office

Company

hirify.global is transforming its UK banking business, technologies, workplaces, and financial services.

What you will do

• Develop and enhance rates curve construction and pricing models for Rates products.
• Build risk and trading tools that provide insight into positions, exposures, and P&L.
• Contribute to electronic pricing, market-making, execution tools, analytics, monitoring, and controls.
• Use market and trading data to develop pricing metrics, relative-value metrics, trading signals, and practical solutions for interest-rate swaps, inflation swaps, and government bonds.
• Translate trader and business requirements into robust models, tools, and technology while explaining market and technical concepts clearly.
• Automate and simplify trading and risk-management workflows, maintain documentation, and support governance with colleagues across Global Markets, Quantitative Research, Engineering, and control teams.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience with the pricing and risk of Rates products, ideally including interest-rate swaps, government bonds, and/or inflation products, plus experience with pricing, risk, P&L, or other trading tools.
• Strong understanding of Rates markets, product pricing, trading, risk management, interest-rate curve construction and modelling, and the instruments and market conventions used to construct and calibrate curves.
• Strong quantitative, analytical, and problem-solving skills, including experience using market and trading data to understand problems and develop practical solutions.
• Programming experience in one or more of Python, C#, Java, or C++, including development of system components and services and use of Software Development Lifecycle processes and tools.
• Ability to work effectively with traders and business and technical colleagues, translating market requirements into robust technical solutions.
• Awareness of risk, control, and conduct requirements, with understanding of the wider financial services industry and relevant regulatory, economic, and market developments.

Nice to have

• Experience using AI-assisted tools for research, analysis, or software development.
• Familiarity with Excel and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA).

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working with flexibility in office attendance, location, and working patterns where reasonable adjustments apply.
• Commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, learning, development, and workplace accessibility.
• Pension contribution of up to 15%, annual performance-related bonus, and share schemes including free shares.
• Adaptable lifestyle benefits, 30 days of holiday plus bank holidays, wellbeing initiatives, and parental leave policies.

Hiring process

• Reasonable adjustments are available throughout the recruitment process; applicants can request the support they need.
• Eligible applicants with a disability, long-term health condition, or neurodivergent condition may receive an interview guarantee through the Disability Confident Scheme when they meet the minimum criteria.