Quant Developer – Systematic Trading & ML Tools

Paragon Alpha - Hedge Fund Talent Business

Greater London

On-site

GBP 90,000 - 150,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

Paragon Alpha – Hedge Fund Talent Business is seeking an experienced Quantitative Developer to join a team working directly with Quant Researchers and Portfolio Managers. Embedded role bridging research, systematic trading and software engineering.

You’ll help build and evolve the research-to-production framework, improve workflows, and raise engineering standards. There will be exposure to ML-driven research and infrastructure to support development, testing and deployment of systematic

Qualifications

5+ years' experience as a Quantitative Developer, Quant Technologist or similar.
Experience working directly with Quantitative Researchers within systematic trading.
Good understanding of quantitative strategies and the underlying investment logic.
Experience taking research code and strategies into robust production environments.
Exposure to ML pipelines and production machine learning.
Strong software engineering practices across testing, architecture and code quality.

Responsibilities

Build and evolve the firm's quantitative trading and research framework, working closely with researchers to take strategies from research through to production.
Improve research workflows, productionise trading strategies, building tools and infrastructure across the strategy lifecycle.
Raise engineering standards across the research environment.
Contribute to projects involving machine learning and AI-driven research infrastructure.