Real-Time Quant Developer — Risk & Data Platforms (London)

Winston Fox; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Global Hedge Fund in London seeks an exceptional Quant Developer to join the Risk team and own high‑impact engineering across real‑time data pipelines and risk platforms. You will work on scalable systems, distributed architectures and modern cloud infrastructure, collaborating directly with Risk and Investment stakeholders.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of experience, expert Python and SQL, and a proven track record delivering production risk tools at top-tier financial institutions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in quantitative development or equivalent
• Exceptional programming ability in Python and strong SQL
• Deep understanding of software engineering, system design, and architecture
• Experience with distributed systems and sophisticated production environments
• Experience with Kafka or similar messaging/streaming tech
• Strong infrastructure experience using Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, cloud and microservices
• Experience applying AI into workflows
• Excellent communication with senior non-technical stakeholders
• Strong project ownership from inception to support
• Records of delivering high-quality production risk systems at top-tier firms

Responsibilities

• Design overall systems architecture
• Build and evolve high-performance data pipelines and real-time apps
• Engineer real-time, scalable processing systems
• Work with distributed systems, messaging and event-driven architectures
• Develop data platforms spanning relational DBs, pipelines and lakehouse tech
• Improve performance, resilience and observability of critical systems
• Collaborate with Risk/Investment users directly
• Raise engineering standards across Risk function
• Take meaningful technical ownership and leadership without people management
• Maintain hands-on engineering focus and excellence

Skills

Python

SQL

Distributed systems

Kafka

Kubernetes

Docker

Helm

Tools

Kafka

Kubernetes

Docker

Helm

Job description

Global Hedge Fund in London seeks an exceptional Quant Developer to join the Risk team and own high‑impact engineering across real‑time data pipelines and risk platforms. You will work on scalable systems, distributed architectures and modern cloud infrastructure, collaborating directly with Risk and Investment stakeholders.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of experience, expert Python and SQL, and a proven track record delivering production risk tools at top-tier financial institutions.