Risk Tech Engineer - Front‑Office Quant (Assoc/VP)

Capstoneinvestmentadvisors; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Training and development opportunities

Wellness resources

Time-off, retirement and commuter

Gym reimbursement and discounts

Job summary

Capstone Investment Advisors in London seeks a Risk Engineer at Associate or Vice President level to design and build investment-facing risk and decision-support tools. You will work close to code, data and users, spanning risk analytics, derivatives and capital allocation across multiple asset classes.

You will collaborate with Risk Managers, Portfolio Managers, Quant Research and wider Technology teams to deliver scalable risk solutions and robust production systems with strong testing and

Qualifications

• 3–8 years of relevant experience in software engineering, quantitative development or risk technology within hedge funds, asset managers, investment banks or equivalent capital‑markets environments.
• Experience building and supporting production software, ideally within risk, pricing, trading or other front‑office applications.
• Strong technical fundamentals and ability to translate complex problems into robust software solutions.

Responsibilities

• Build production-grade components of Capstone's Risk Technology platform with focus on performance and reliability.
• Develop cross-asset risk capabilities spanning Greeks, stress scenarios and VaR.
• Collaborate with Portfolio Managers, Risk Managers and Quant Research to translate investment problems into technical solutions.
• Build APIs, data pipelines and interactive tools to show what changed and what action to consider at trade and fund level.
• Translate pricing and risk methodologies into robust production implementations with proper controls.
• Contribute to the Risk Intelligence strategy by turning analytics into actionable insight.
• Develop resilient risk services, integrating data and analytics with testing and data quality controls.
• Collaborate across Technology, Data and AI teams, contributing to design reviews and standards.

Skills

Python

Java

SQL

APIs

Data pipelines

Distributed systems

Risk analytics

Derivatives

Portfolio risk

Communication

Ownership

Tools

Cloud infrastructure

Containers

CI/CD

Streaming

Observability

Job description

Capstone Investment Advisors in London seeks a Risk Engineer at Associate or Vice President level to design and build investment-facing risk and decision-support tools. You will work close to code, data and users, spanning risk analytics, derivatives and capital allocation across multiple asset classes.

You will collaborate with Risk Managers, Portfolio Managers, Quant Research and wider Technology teams to deliver scalable risk solutions and robust production systems with strong testing and