Quantitative Developer

Trades Workforce Solutions; Greater London; On-site; GBP 200,000 - 400,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading quant trading firm is seeking a Quantitative Developer in London to work alongside quant researchers and data scientists. This role demands strong software engineering skills, expertise in Python and/or C#, and a solid understanding of algorithms and data structures. The successful candidate will contribute to production signal pipelines and enhance trading capabilities across the business. A strong academic background is preferred, and candidates with an interest in quantitative finance will excel in this position.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in software engineering and end-to-end solutions ownership.
• Proficiency with Python and/or C#, familiarity with other OO languages is a plus.
• Solid understanding of software architecture, algorithms, data structures.

Responsibilities

• Analyze data and develop/run production signal pipelines.
• Contribute ideas, tools, and systems to enhance trading capabilities.
• Enable large-scale ML model training and build out research tooling.

Skills

Software engineering

Python

C#

Quant finance

Data structures

Algorithms

Data science stack

Education

Bachelor's degree from a top-tier university

Job description

Quantitative Developer - London - leading quant trading firm - 200-400k 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 we'd love to hear from you! Vertex Search is acting as a recruitment agency on this engagement.