Winter Quant Developer Intern, Fixed Income Platform

Mackenzie Investments; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 68,000 - 78,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Hybrid work arrangement

Job summary

Mackenzie Investments is seeking a Quantitative Developer Intern for the winter term (January–April 2027) in Toronto. You will support portfolio managers and quantitative analysts, implementing key elements of investment processes within the Fixed Income Platform Engineering group.

This full-time role runs 37.5 hours weekly with eligibility for paid time off. The position emphasizes hands-on software development, data workflows, and collaboration across Fixed Income teams in a hybrid office

Qualifications

• Proven academic performance in a quantitative discipline such as Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Economics, or Finance.
• Active programming proficiency, with fluency in Python; experience with other languages like JavaScript/TypeScript, C++/Java, MATLAB, R, or Rust is an asset.
• Hands-on experience working with large datasets, particularly within the Python ecosystem (e.g., NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, Polars), and working knowledge of both SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Enthusiasm for applying modern development tools and best practices across the entire software application lifecycle.
• Foundational understanding of financial markets, and a motivation to deepen knowledge of fixed income and quantitative finance.
• Familiarity with statistics, econometrics, and related forecasting techniques.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design and implementation of analytics, research workflows, and decision-support tools for fixed income portfolio management.
• Build and maintain software and infrastructure that power systematic research and data workflows.
• Help monitor, troubleshoot, and improve live production processes, gaining exposure to real-world systems at scale.
• Collaborate with teammates across the platform and portfolio engineering teams, as well as with researchers and portfolio managers across Fixed Income.
• Participate actively in a modern software development environment, including version control, testing, and code review.

Skills

Python

SQL/NoSQL

Data analysis

C++/Java

Statistics/econometrics

Education

Bachelor's degree in a quantitative discipline

Tools

NumPy

SciPy

Pandas

Polars

Job description

Mackenzie Investments is seeking a Quantitative Developer Intern for the winter term (January–April 2027) in Toronto. You will support portfolio managers and quantitative analysts, implementing key elements of investment processes within the Fixed Income Platform Engineering group.

This full-time role runs 37.5 hours weekly with eligibility for paid time off. The position emphasizes hands-on software development, data workflows, and collaboration across Fixed Income teams in a hybrid office