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HFT and finance are still mostly in-office. If you join as a front-office dev on a trading team, chances are you will not be remote much and people will be in the office trading.

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I've never been too interested in working for HFT/traditional finance, but depending on how office trends continue I might change my mind (especially living in NYC, though I'm also considering moving).

Chicago, London and Singapore are also good places, although nowadays there are funds everywhere (Boston, SF, Miami).

This is a wild overgeneralisation but in descending order of fun levels/friendliness of HFT teams it goes Chicago, London, Singapore, NYC.

Seems to hold across most HFTs I have met/worked at. Not sure about hedge funds or other finance roles.

Edit: Crypto HFT firms also abound but they are generally more remote-friendly than TradFi (the latter have regulators that need you to have an office and stuff).

Generally true, but working from home is also becoming increasingly common even for front office roles (at least in the UK, not sure how that generalises).

And also front-office dev isn't everybody's cup of tea (though I am sure this can be said of any type of role).

(Source: worked in finance/trading for 10+ years before jumping ship.)

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