Real-Time Equity Risk Platform Engineer

Jain Global; Greater London; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Jain Global is hiring a Quantitative Developer - Risk Technology in London to own the equity-volatility risk platform end-to-end. You will design and operate real-time risk calculations, exposure aggregation, and dashboards for risk managers and PMs, collaborating with quantitative researchers to ensure fast, reliable production code.

The role emphasizes building low-latency, scalable systems, modern APIs, and robust data pipelines, with leadership and engineering-best-practices at the fore.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and operating production systems with Python and at least one systems language.
• Strong grounding in distributed systems, concurrency, service design, and API design for production use.
• Solid engineering discipline: automated testing, CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure as code.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own risk calculation and exposure aggregation services from capture to risk numbers.
• Develop real-time risk monitoring systems, limit frameworks, breach detection, and alerting.

Skills

Python

Systems language

Distributed systems

CI/CD

Performance profiling

Testing

Education

BS/MS in CS or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Kafka

Redis

Airflow

Job description

Jain Global is hiring a Quantitative Developer - Risk Technology in London to own the equity-volatility risk platform end-to-end. You will design and operate real-time risk calculations, exposure aggregation, and dashboards for risk managers and PMs, collaborating with quantitative researchers to ensure fast, reliable production code.

The role emphasizes building low-latency, scalable systems, modern APIs, and robust data pipelines, with leadership and engineering-best-practices at the fore.