Quantitative Developer

Vertexsearch; City Of London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading quant trading firm in London is seeking a talented Quantitative Developer to join their front office team. You will develop and run production signal pipelines, collaborating closely with quant researchers and engineers. The ideal candidate will have strong software engineering skills, proficiency in Python or C#, and a solid grounding in software architecture and algorithms. This full-time position offers exciting challenges in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Strong experience of software engineering and end-to-end solutions ownership.
• Proficiency with Python and / or C#.
• Solid understanding of software architecture and algorithms.

Responsibilities

• Develop and run production signal pipelines.
• Contribute to enhancing trading capabilities.
• Work closely with quant researchers and engineers.

Skills

Software engineering

Python

C#

Data structures

Algorithms

Quant finance

Python data science stack

Education

Top-tier university degree

Job description

Job Description

Quantitative Developer - London - leading quant trading firm base 50-100% bonus!

We are working with a leading systematic hedge fund who are seeking talented Quantitative Developers to work in the front office space alongside quant researchers, data scientists and engineers of various disciplines. As an embedded quant developer you will work closely with the business to analyse data and develop and run production signal pipelines. You will contribute ideas, tools and systems to enhance trading capabilities. Embedded engineers get to see the impact of their actions including visibility of daily P&L attribution. The role is broad and not limited to performance optimisation, rearchitecting systems, enabling large‑scale ML model training, building out research tooling and much more.

About you

• Strong experience of software engineering and end-to-end solutions ownership.
• Proficiency with Python and / or C# (other OO languages are a plus)
• Solid understanding of software architecture, algorithms, data structures and computer science fundamentals
• Interest or experience in quant finance
• Advanced knowledge of the Python data science stack (Pandas, NumPy, SciPy) is a plus
• Strong academic background from a top‑tier university a major plus

If this sounds of interest wed love to hear from you! Vertex Search is acting as a recruitment agency on this engagement.

Employment Type: Full‑Time

Experience: years

Vacancy: 1