Front-Office Quant Engineer: Live Trading Systems

Selby Jennings; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Selby Jennings is partnering with a leading systematic hedge fund in London to hire a Quant Developer to join a front-office systematic trading team. This hands-on role collaborates with Quant Researchers and Strategists to build and support the technology behind live strategies in production.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in quantitative trading, proven production experience, and strong Python skills (NumPy, Pandas) across market data engineering, ML pipelines, and execution systems.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Experience building production systems for live systematic trading strategies.
• Strong Python development with NumPy and Pandas.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain real-time data processing systems.
• Develop alpha generation pipelines and ML infrastructure.
• Support strategy execution platforms and trading tech stack.

Skills

Python (NumPy, Pandas)

Production systems

Real-time data processing

ML pipelines

Job description

Selby Jennings is partnering with a leading systematic hedge fund in London to hire a Quant Developer to join a front-office systematic trading team. This hands-on role collaborates with Quant Researchers and Strategists to build and support the technology behind live strategies in production.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in quantitative trading, proven production experience, and strong Python skills (NumPy, Pandas) across market data engineering, ML pipelines, and execution systems.