Senior Java Algo Quant Developer

UBS•New York, NY

11d•$225,000 - $242,500•Onsite

About The Position

We are looking for a Senior Java Algo Quant Developer to join our Principal Algorithmic Trading Equity Derivatives crew. This role is within the front office of an investment bank, focusing on algorithmic trading technology and building real-time, low-latency pricing systems. The developer will leverage AI to automate workflows, surface insights, and deliver robust, scalable Java server-side platforms. The position involves architecting and delivering a new global equity options RFQ, auto-pricing, and electronic trading platform. The role requires translating complex business and regulatory requirements into automated solutions, applying AI for business flow automation and next-generation analytics, and ensuring the quality, security, reliability, and compliance of solutions. Collaboration with the global team to evolve the platform, build observability, monitor production health, and resolve incidents is also key. The role also includes sharing knowledge, mentoring colleagues, supporting hiring, and contributing to the engineering culture.

Requirements

Ideally 5+ years’ experience in the Equity Derivatives asset class
Excellent Java software development skills, ideally with exposure to real-time, low-latency pricing systems
Hands-on technical expertise with demonstrable AI experience across software engineering, automation, analytics or trading workflows
Take an automated approach to testing to ensure delivery of high-quality solutions
Experience establishing and exploiting DevOps capabilities
A strong communicator with experience working in a front-office environment, facing off to the business and picking up business knowledge at every opportunity
Experience playing a full part in a close-knit team environment
Curious to explore how AI can improve how we build, deliver, and optimize workflows
Validate outputs and align with policies, risk standards, and ethical use

Responsibilities

Architect and deliver our new global equity options RFQ, auto-pricing and electronic trading platform
Work alongside business users to translate complex business and regulatory requirements, manual processes and trading flows into innovative, automated solutions
Leverage AI to further automate business flows and deliver next-generation analytics and signals into the platform
Apply a broad range of software engineering practices to ensure the quality, security, reliability and compliance of our solutions, focusing on both functional and non-functional needs
Work closely with the global team to evolve the platform, build observability into our solutions, monitor production health, resolve incidents and remediate the root causes of risks and issues
Share AI, technical and domain knowledge with the team, mentor colleagues, support hiring and contribute regularly to our engineering culture and internal communities