Real-Time Equity Risk Platform Engineer

Jain Global (UK) Partners LLP; Greater London; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Ownership of platforms

Global exposure

Career development

Job summary

London-based Quantitative Developer – Risk Technology role at Jain Global (UK) Partners LLP requires building and owning the equity-volatility risk platform. You will work with risk managers to deliver near real-time exposure and limit information across low-latency services and large-scale data pipelines.

You’ll translate models into production code, backtest, and optimize for performance and reliability in a fast-moving hedge fund setting.

Qualifications

• Strong Python and systems programming background with production experience.
• Experience in distributed systems, latency-sensitive risk platforms, and API design.
• Solid discipline: automated testing, CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure as code.
• Familiarity with performance profiling, benchmarking, and latency/throughput reasoning.
• Knowledge of streaming/messaging (Kafka/Redis) and orchestration (Airflow/Dagster).
• Hands-on with containers, Kubernetes, and major cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own risk calculation and exposure aggregation services end-to-end.
• Develop real-time risk monitoring, breach detection, alerting, and drill-down UI.
• Create APIs and services (REST/gRPC, streaming) for downstream use.
• Deliver tooling and dashboards to slice risk by strategy, desk, asset class, and counterparty.
• Maintain pricing and Greeks infrastructure and support model backtesting and calibration.

Skills

Python

Distributed systems

Concurrency

API design

Automated testing

CI/CD

Observability

Infrastructure as code

Performance profiling

Latency optimization

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics

Tools

Kafka

Redis

Airflow

Dagster

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

London-based Quantitative Developer – Risk Technology role at Jain Global (UK) Partners LLP requires building and owning the equity-volatility risk platform. You will work with risk managers to deliver near real-time exposure and limit information across low-latency services and large-scale data pipelines.

You’ll translate models into production code, backtest, and optimize for performance and reliability in a fast-moving hedge fund setting.