Senior Quant Data Scientist: Real-Time FX Pricing & Risk

Wise; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Wise is seeking a talented quantitative developer to join the Treasury Markets Data Science team. You will own the production infrastructure behind FX pricing, risk and trading systems, helping scale and improve real-time operations across USD 250bn+ of annual FX volume.

You will work in a Python-first environment, maintaining production-grade quant systems and contributing to quantitative models as you grow in the domain.

Qualifications

• 4+ years building and maintaining production Python systems.
• Strong experience with microservices, databases, and production infrastructure.
• Experience with streaming systems and real-time data pipelines (Kafka, Flink, Redis).

Responsibilities

• Own Python microservices that run quantitative models in production.
• Ensure monitoring, alerting and reliability for real-time pricing and risk systems.
• Maintain shared quant libraries used across services.
• Manage CI/CD pipelines, deployment and operational excellence.
• Investigate incidents and perform root-cause analysis for production issues.

Skills

Python

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Testing & debugging

Tools

Kafka

Flink

Redis

Spark

Snowflake

Job description

Wise is seeking a talented quantitative developer to join the Treasury Markets Data Science team. You will own the production infrastructure behind FX pricing, risk and trading systems, helping scale and improve real-time operations across USD 250bn+ of annual FX volume.

You will work in a Python-first environment, maintaining production-grade quant systems and contributing to quantitative models as you grow in the domain.