Senior Quant Developer: Build Fast, Exabyte-Scale Platform

Hunter Bond; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Hunter Bond in London (Hybrid) is seeking a Senior Quant Developer to scale a next-generation research platform. You will architect Python-based distributed systems that process exabyte-scale market data and work directly with quants and traders to produce production-grade solutions.

The role offers up to £200k base + bonus and benefits, with a growth path into strategy work alongside top-tier researchers.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in quant finance or large-scale distributed systems.
• Built large-scale distributed applications or data platforms.
• Strong knowledge of algorithms and data structures.

Responsibilities

• Architect distributed Python systems for exabyte-scale data.
• Build tooling and pipelines to accelerate research.
• Tune latency, throughput, and efficiency across the stack.
• Own platform components end-to-end from design to deployment.
• Collaborate with quants and traders to productionize ideas.

Skills

Python

Distributed systems

Algorithms & DS

Linux

Communication

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Tools

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Job description

Hunter Bond in London (Hybrid) is seeking a Senior Quant Developer to scale a next-generation research platform. You will architect Python-based distributed systems that process exabyte-scale market data and work directly with quants and traders to produce production-grade solutions.

The role offers up to £200k base + bonus and benefits, with a growth path into strategy work alongside top-tier researchers.