Desk-Aligned Python Engineer- Market-Leading Global Hedge Fund | London, UK

Oxford Knight; London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading investment firm is seeking a Desk-Aligned Python Engineer to join their Commodities team. This hands-on role involves collaboration with various teams to develop and enhance trading tools using advanced technology and large datasets. The ideal candidate will have strong Python skills with a solid background in software engineering, contributing to innovative problem-solving in a dynamic industry.

Benefits

Significant salary + bonus + benefits package

Work with the latest technologies on complex problems

Positive, friendly culture

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 - 7 years of software engineering experience.
• Fluent in Python or comparable language.
• Experience with complex, multi-site systems architectures.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with trading, research, and data teams to create technical solutions.
• Work with large datasets to build data analytics trading tools.
• Improve model frameworks and performance.

Skills

Python

Unix

Database technologies

Education

BS degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Job description

Desk-Aligned Python Engineer- Market-Leading Global Hedge Fund

Summary

Industry-leading investment firm using innovative and cutting-edge technology, with data at the core of the investment process. They've developed an advanced technology platform to quickly understand patterns within a market or product and conduct scenario analysis that help maintain competitive advantage.

Now looking for a top-level software engineer - well-versed in Python - to join their Commodities team.

In this hands-on role, you'll collaborate with trading, research and data teams to understand business challenges and design technical/quantitative solutions. This will involve working with large datasets, building data analytics trading tools and improving model frameworks and performance.

The successful candidate will have fantastic technology skills, ideally in multiple programming languages.

Requirements

• Minimum 3 - 7 years of software engineering experience
• Fluent in Python (or comparable language)
• Minimum BS degree in Computer Science/Engineering; or equivalent experience
• Experience with complex, multi-site systems architectures
• Strong proficiency with Unix operating systems
• Exposure to a variety of database technologies

Benefits

• Significant salary + bonus + benefits package
• Work with the latest technologies on complex problems
• Positive, friendly culture

Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.

Contact
If this sounds like you, or you'd like to know more, please get in touch!

Tara Neville
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linkedin.com/in/tara-neville-1b19961a8

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