London PM‑Facing Quant Developer: Production Trading Systems

Mondrian Alpha; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation package

Extensive benefits offering

Professional development

High-quality working environment

Job summary

Mondrian Alpha in London is seeking an experienced Quantitative Developer to join one of its investment teams. You will work with Portfolio Managers and quantitative researchers to translate ideas into robust, scalable production systems.

The role focuses on delivering data infrastructure, live production environments, and end-to-end support for systematic strategies, collaborating across research and trading lifecycles with senior investment professionals.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or another relevant technical discipline.
• Excellent Python development skills, with production-quality code.
• Several years of professional software development experience.
• Experience designing and deploying production systems with reliability and performance.
• Strong experience with large datasets, ingestion, processing and validation.
• Hands-on experience with data pipelines and workflow orchestration (Airflow) and event streaming (Kafka).
• Familiarity with CI/CD, automated testing, version control and deployment workflows.
• Experience across the software development lifecycle from design to deployment and optimization.
• Strong problem-solving and ownership of technical projects.
• Excellent communication with technical and investment professionals.
• Experience in hedge funds, prop trading, or fintech environments.
• Experience with systems used by investment, trading or quantitative research teams.
• Exposure to financial markets, derivatives, or systematic strategies.
• Experience bringing quantitative models from development to live production.
• Understanding of statistical/quantitative modelling in finance.
• Experience with parallel/concurrent computing (e.g., Dask).
• Experience deploying applications with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with AWS or cloud-based infra.
• Exposure to modern data engineering, distributed computing, or event-driven architectures.

Responsibilities

• Develop and improve systems used by the investment team.
• Work on data and research infrastructure.
• Support implementation and monitoring of systematic strategies in live environments.
• Collaborate across research and trading lifecycles with investment professionals and tech specialists.

Skills

Python

Production systems

Data pipelines

Airflow

Kafka

CI/CD

Automated testing

Version control

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Dask

Financial markets

Education

Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Airflow

Kafka

AWS

Job description

Mondrian Alpha in London is seeking an experienced Quantitative Developer to join one of its investment teams. You will work with Portfolio Managers and quantitative researchers to translate ideas into robust, scalable production systems.

The role focuses on delivering data infrastructure, live production environments, and end-to-end support for systematic strategies, collaborating across research and trading lifecycles with senior investment professionals.