Quantitative Trading Analyst (Equity Options)

Location: London, United Kingdom

Company

hirify.global is a diversified trading firm combining sophisticated technology and quantitative expertise to trade multiple asset classes and non-traditional strategies across global markets.

What you will do

• Analyze market behavior, volatility dynamics, and trading performance across European equity index options.
• Develop quantitative models and analytical tools for pricing, risk management, and execution.
• Analyze large datasets to identify trading opportunities, market inefficiencies, and performance drivers.
• Build dashboards, visualizations, and research pipelines for trading ideas and strategies.
• Monitor live trading metrics, investigate anomalies, and conduct post-trade analysis.
• Collaborate with traders, quantitative researchers, and software engineers to automate workflows and deploy models into production.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in mathematics, statistics, physics, computer science, engineering, economics, or a related quantitative discipline.
• Strong programming skills in Python; experience with C++, Java, or other high-performance languages is advantageous.
• Knowledge of derivatives, options pricing, volatility modeling, or quantitative finance.
• Solid understanding of probability, statistics, linear algebra, and optimization.
• Experience working with large datasets and writing efficient data analysis code.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and attention-to-detail skills, with familiarity with European equity index products or similar markets.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a high-performance options market-making environment using the firm’s own capital.
• Collaborate across trading, quantitative research, and software engineering functions.
• Operate in a culture emphasizing autonomy, innovation, integrity, curiosity, and challenging consensus.