Python Developer Software Engineer Fixed Income Finance London

eFinancialCareers; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working from home

Job summary

eFinancialCareers is recruiting a Python Quant Developer for a London asset management client. You will join a team of five quants, building production Python solutions for fixed income, rates and credit products.

You will collaborate with front-office traders, researchers and risk teams, translating models into robust software and scalable services. Strong Python, architecture, and Agile practices are essential.

Qualifications

• Excellent experience as a Python Developer/Software Engineer/Programmer.
• Strong Python design, architecture and build experience.
• An understanding of fixed income markets, ideally including exposure to credit derivatives (CDO, CLO, ABS, CDS).
• Good ability to work and collaborate with front office stakeholders such as traders, quants and researchers.
• Agile methodologies experience.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with quants to productionize models in Python.
• Work with fixed income products across rates, credit and asset-backed securities.
• Join a team of five quantitative developers dedicated to the fixed income group.
• Contribute to production-grade software delivering front-office tooling.

Skills

Python development

Software architecture

Fixed income knowledge

Front office collaboration

Agile

Job description

Python Quant Developer (Programmer Software Engineer Python Fixed Income Bonds Rates Credit Equities Commodities Derivatives Amazon Web Services AWS Azure GCP Cloud Quantitative Analysts R Asset Manager Buy Side Investment Management Fund Hedge Fund Finance Front Office Trading Asset Manager) required by our asset management client in London.

You MUST have the following:

• Excellent experience as a Python Developer/Software Engineer/Programmer
• Strong Python- strong design, architecture and build experience
• An understanding of fixed income whether rates or credit markets, ideally including some exposure to credit derivatives (CDO, CLO, ABS, CDS etc)
• Good ability to work and collaborate with front office stakeholders such as traders, quants, researchers etc
• Agile

The following is DESIRABLE, not essential:

• Buy-side- asset management, investment manager, hedge fund
• Bloomberg BQuant exposure

Role: Python Quant Developer (Programmer Software Engineer Python Fixed Income Bonds Rates Credit Equities Commodities Derivatives Amazon Web Services AWS Azure GCP Cloud Quantitative Analysts R Asset Manager Buy Side Investment Management Fund Hedge Fund Finance Front Office Trading Asset Manager) required by our asset management client in London. You will work in a team of 5 quantitative developers. This team is dedicated to the fixed income quantitative analysts and credit researchers across the company. You will collaborate with the quants to get their models into production. This will largely involve Python and will mean that you acquire an excellent knowledge of fixed income products across rates, credit and asset backed securities. This is an excellent opportunity to work in the front office, close to the business.

Your Python will be very strong. Exposure to Bloomberg BQuant, R would be beneficial but is not essential.

Hours are 9-5 but can be flexed to allow for school-runs and other commitments. There is flexible working from home.

Salary: £110-135k + 20% Bonus + 10% Pension