Quantitative Developer

Tanqeeb; Dubai; On-site; AED 450,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Tanqeeb is seeking a Quantitative Developer to join a small, fast-growing hedge fund expanding its quantitative development team. You will lead development of risk and middle office systems, building the data platform and supporting trading workflows.

Candidates should have 10+ years in software or quantitative development, strong Python/SQL production experience, and solid hedge fund or asset management exposure. A leadership path is expected from a sole contributor role.

Qualifications

• 10+ years software engineering and/or quantitative development experience.

Responsibilities

• Build out risk and middle office systems.
• Initial focus on building the fund’s data platform.
• Support trading and risk workflows.
• Potential to move toward broader leadership from a solo contributor role.

Skills

Quant dev experience

Hedge fund experience

CI/CD

Orchestration

Observability

Leadership

Python

SQL

Education

Degree in CS/Engineering/Finance

Tools

Python

SQL

Job description

Quantitative Developer – Hedge Fund

A small but rapidly growing hedge fund are expanding their quantitative development team and are looking for an experienced Quantitative Developer to play a key role in building out risk and middle office systems.

You will have a strong understanding of risk management, portfolio management, and market data systems, as well as traded financial products, and initially help build out the fund’s data platform, then supporting trading and risk workflows.

Significant progression for the successful candidate is expected. This is a highly business-visible role within a smaller company with significant investment and aspiration, and as such this person is expected to provide leadership from a sole contributor perspective, but later progress to a broader leadership position.

You should apply for this role if you are/have:

10+ years software engineering and/or quantitative development experience Significant hedge fund, asset management, and/or sales/trading environment experience Proven experience building production systems form scratch in Python and SQLSignificant experience implementing CI/CD, orchestration, and observability solutions Understanding of traded financial products (equities, fixed income, FX) Degree educated or higher form a leading academic institution

This is a permanent role with a base salary + bonus compensation structure. Package dependent on experience.