Quant jobs / HSBC

FX Options Electronic Trading Quant & Product Owner – Associate Director

A hands-on role on the FX options desk that owns the roadmap for electronic trading tools. You work with quant research and technology to deliver pricing, vol marking and execution.

What you’d work on

Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.

Prioritise and deliver automated pricing and vol surface marking tools
Prototype pricing and decision logic in Python and test it against live market behaviour
Build backtesting and analytics tools to rank improvements
Support streaming and RFQ pricing for vanillas and exotics
Handle release, testing and post-release support with traders and tech

What they ask for

Required

FX or rates/equity derivatives e-trading experience
Strong maths background
FX option pricing, vol surfaces and Greeks
Python and/or C++
Auto-quoting or e-pricing systems experience
Stakeholder management

Preferred

Experience with exchange-listed FX options execution
AI/ML workflow improvements

Education: Not stated
Experience: Demonstrable FX (or rates/equity derivatives) electronic trading experience as quant, strat, quant developer or product owner
Languages and tools: Python
C++
Markets: fx, options

How to prepare

Build a vol surface from market quotes and mark it consistently, including risk reversals and butterflies
Learn second-order Greeks such as vanna and volga and how they drive exotic books
Prototype a simple auto-quoter in Python and test it on historical data
Study how RFQ and streaming pricing differ and what controls surround them

What to study

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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with HSBC and doesn’t handle applications.