About the Position
We're looking for a Securities Financing Specialist to support and develop Jane Street's financing capabilities. The ideal candidate has prior experience in financing or securities lending at a bank or buy-side firm, along with strong external relationships with counterparties.
You can expect to work with a broad range of internal teams to understand and manage the various constraints of a quantitative trading firm. You'll also have the opportunity to execute real-time financing decisions and improve our long-term financing strategy.
Additional responsibilities of this role will include
- Working closely with trading desks and infrastructure teams to optimize the financing and securities lending transactions across various products
- Maintaining and developing relationships with prime brokers and other external financing counterparties
- Being a reliable subject matter expert in the financing markets to support our trading desks' decisions
- Helping to form our long-term financing strategy by improving and expanding our financing activity and capacity
- Working with all groups within our Finance department to find robust solutions to strategic and tactical problems
- Learning about and supporting other products, financing structures, and trading desks within Jane Street
Candidate Profile & Mindset
- Have 2-5 years of relevant financing experience at a buy-side firm or bank (some exposure to credit financing, ideally in corporate bonds, is preferred)
- Excited and able to cultivate relationships with prime brokers and other external financing counterparties
- Have strong analytical skills and experience with performing technical data analysis to solve problems (e.g., through previous work experience, STEM coursework)
- Intellectually curious and motivated to learn about new products, funding trade types, and strategies
- An effective communicator who works well in a team environment
- Fluency in Python, SQL, or other programming languages is a strong plus If you're a recruiting agency and want to partner with us, please reach out to agency-partnerships@janestreet.com.
About Jane Street
Jane Street, founded in 2000 in New York, is a quantitative trading firm and major liquidity provider in equities, ETFs, options and crypto. It trades $20B+ daily with 2,600+ employees across New York, London and Hong Kong, known for deep OCaml and functional programming culture and rigorous research. In Web3, Jane Street trades spot and derivatives on centralized and decentralized venues and invests via its crypto arm. The process stresses mathematics, reasoning under uncertainty and collaborative problem solving over crypto-native background. Jane Street combines quantitative research, cutting-edge market microstructure analysis, and high-concurrency systems engineering to provide continuous liquidity across global digital asset markets.