Risk Tech Engineer – Front Office Analytics

Capstone Investment Advisors; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Training and development

Wellness resources

Time-off and retirement

Gym reimbursement

Job summary

Capstone Investment Advisors in London is seeking a Risk Engineer at Associate or VP level within Risk Technology. You will design and build investment-facing risk and decision-support capabilities, staying close to code, data and users from problem to production.

This hands-on role spans software engineering, risk analytics and derivatives, offering broad exposure across strategies and asset classes. You will own meaningful components of the Risk Technology platform and collaborate with Risk

Qualifications

• 3–8 years of relevant experience in software engineering, quantitative development or risk technology within a hedge fund, asset manager, investment bank or comparable capital-markets environment.
• Experience building and supporting production software, ideally within risk, pricing, trading or other front-office applications.
• Strong Python / Java and SQL skills, together with experience in another object-oriented language; familiarity with APIs, databases, data pipelines and distributed systems.
• Good understanding of derivatives and risk analytics, including some combination of option pricing, Greeks, scenario analysis, stress testing or VaR.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to investigate issues across data, models and implementation and work through problems systematically.

Responsibilities

• Build and enhance production-grade components of Capstone’s Risk Technology platform, focusing on performance, reliability, scalability and usability.
• Develop cross-asset risk capabilities spanning Greeks and sensitivities, stress scenarios, VaR, P&L vectors and attribution, limits, factor analytics, margin and exposure aggregation.
• Work directly with Portfolio Managers, Risk Managers and Quant Research to translate investment and risk problems into technical solutions.
• Build APIs, data pipelines and interactive decision tools that help users understand changes and actions at trade level.
• Translate pricing and risk methodologies into robust production implementations with proper validation and controls.
• Contribute to Capstone’s Risk Intelligence strategy by turning research and analytics into actionable investment insight.
• Develop and support resilient risk services, integrating data and analytics with strong testing and data quality controls.
• Collaborate with engineers across Technology, Data and AI and participate in design/code reviews and engineering standards.

Skills

Python

Java

SQL

APIs

Data pipelines

Distributed systems

Derivatives

Risk analytics

Option pricing

Greeks

VaR

P&L vectors

Tools

Cloud infrastructure

Containers

CI/CD

Streaming

Observability

Job description

Capstone Investment Advisors in London is seeking a Risk Engineer at Associate or VP level within Risk Technology. You will design and build investment-facing risk and decision-support capabilities, staying close to code, data and users from problem to production.

This hands-on role spans software engineering, risk analytics and derivatives, offering broad exposure across strategies and asset classes. You will own meaningful components of the Risk Technology platform and collaborate with Risk