Our client is seeking a talented Quantitative Developer to help build their next-generation performance trading platform. The existing team consists of some of the brightest minds hailing from a range of backgrounds (Big Tech, startups, etc), all striving to build the next generation of performance technology.
As a Quantitative Developer, you will work across a range of projects, within which you will get end-to-end input on design and development as well as a real say in the direction that the team moves. This is an extremely tech-focused organisation who are looking for the next wave of tech-driven, entrepreneurial personalities to help expand the team.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain research platforms, building Python-based tools and libraries for backtesting strategies, analysing data, and simulating trading logic to support quant researchers.
- Implement quantitative models and signals, translating trading ideas or academic models into production-ready Python code, ensuring reproducibility, performance, and alignment with real-world trading constraints.
- Automate data pipelines, designing and managing workflows for collecting, cleaning, and storing large volumes of financial data (e.g., price, volume, fundamentals, alternative data), often using tools like Pandas, NumPy, and Dask.
- Collaborate across teams for deployment, working with researchers, traders, and DevOps teams to integrate Python models into production environments (e.g., through APIs, microservices, or containerised systems like Docker).
You will have
- 1+ years of experience as a Quantitative Developer (or related field like software engineering)
- 1+ years of experience using C++ or Python or both!
- Experience working with highly distributed, robust and scalable systems
- Strong understanding of high-level system design
- Outstanding academic background
- A curious and tech-driven personality!
The organisation is one of the most elite trading firms globally, and you can expect to find:
- Generous benefits and bonus package - market leading!
- Excellent career progression and the ability to learn from some of the best developers, researchers and traders on the planet.
- The opportunity to work with tech years ahead of competitors!
If you are a Quantitative Developer, please apply!
Job title: Quantitative Developer (C++ or Python)
Client: Elite systematic trading firm
Salary: £70,000 - £275,000 base (+ bonus)
Location: London (hybrid)