Electronic Trading Analyst

Attendance

On-Site

Job number

27982

Category

Professional

Status: Permanent

Type of Contract

Permanent

Schedule: Full-Time

Full Time / Part Time?

Full-Time

Posting date

14-Aug-2025

Area(s) of interest: Financial markets and treasury

Location(s): Montreal, Toronto

As an Analyst on the Electronic Trading Algorithmic Development team within the Financial Markets sector at National Bank Financial, you will dive directly into creating innovative solutions that advance our business. You will join an inspiring and curious team of technologists dedicated to improving the design, analytics, development, coding, testing and application programming that goes into creating high quality software and new products. You will work with quantitative analysts and traders to develop, implement, support and maintain a growing trading system and its strategies.

Your Job

• Design and develop trading strategies in close collaboration with traders
• Enhance existing strategies to improve performance
• Develop and enhance our pre-trade and post-trade analysis platform on AWS
• Develop and maintain automated testing
• Provide second level support to the trading platform
• Good team player and ability to work independently with minimal guidance

Your Team

You will be part of a team of 11 colleagues in the Electronic Trading Algorithmic Development team, and you will report to the Managing Director of Electronic Trading. In this role you will have a chance to explore and gain experience on FX and Fixed Income Electronic trading and its technology.

This position is based in Montreal or Toronto.

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in software engineering with 3 years of experience in software development using Java and/or C++ and/or Python, or master’s in computer science with 1 year of software development experience in Java and/or C++ and/or Python
• Ability to communicate effectively, clearly and confidently
• Able to elicit requirements from business requests
• Experience developing within low latency, real-time systems is a definitive plus
• Machine learning and cloud base app development experience is a definitive plus
• Experience developing strategies for market-making, systematic trading, or electronic trading an asset

Languages:

English, French

Reason to require this language: you will need to work closely with our colleagues outside Quebec.

Skills

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C++

Capital Markets

Communication

Java

Problem Solving

Computer Programming

Python

Initiative

Learning Agility

Automated Testing

Coding

Algorithm Development

Diversity

Equity and Inclusion

Collaboration