Quantitative Developer, Commodities

Winton Capital US LLC; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Winton Capital US LLC seeks an experienced quantitative developer to join the Investment Management & Research group. You will design and implement trading systems and tools that support the firm’s trading and research capabilities within a collaborative quantitative research environment.

Responsibilities include developing reliable trading systems, designing infrastructure for research-to-live trading, and partnering with the Portfolio Manager to build data validation and monitoring frameworks.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of commercial development experience with Python.
• Experience building and deploying data pipelines.
• Familiar with modern infrastructure incl. CI/CD, Kafka and Airflow.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Strong engineering practices and timely delivery.

Responsibilities

• Develop reliable and performant trading systems and strategies.
• Design and optimise trading infrastructure from research to live trading.
• Partner with Portfolio Manager to develop data validation and monitoring frameworks.

Skills

Python development

Data pipelines

Distributed/parallel computing

Communication & collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field

Tools

CI/CD

Kafka

Airflow

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

We seek an experienced and talented quantitative developer to join the Investment Management & Research group at Winton. The role sits within our Fundamental Commodities strategy and will work closely with the Senior Portfolio Manager. You will work within a collaborative quantitative research environment to design and implement trading systems and tools that support the firm’s trading and research capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Develop reliable and performant trading systems and strategies
• Design and optimise trading infrastructure to provide a seamless path from research to live trading
• Partner with the Portfolio Manager to develop frameworks for data validation and monitoring

What We're Looking For

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field
• 5+ years of commercial development experience, with strong skills in Python.
• Hands-on experience with building and deploying data pipelines
• Familiarity with modern infrastructure (CI/CD, Kafka, Airflow)
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Detail orientated, with a commitment to best engineering practices
• The ability to prioritise, plan and deliver to projects in a timely manner

What Would Be Useful

• Experience of developing trading systems for commodity derivatives in a systematic hedge fund
• Experience of working closely with researchers and portfolio managers
• Basic knowledge of statistical modelling in a financial context
• Experience with parallel & concurrent processing, e.g. Dask
• Familiarity with containerised cloud development, deployment and management (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS)