Senior Quantitative Engineer – AI-Driven Asset Allocation

Allocation Strategy Ltd.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity participation

Direct influence over core technology

Impact on research direction

Job summary

Allocation Strategy Ltd. in London is seeking a Senior Quantitative Engineer to join our technology team.

This hands-on, early‑stage role spans software engineering, quantitative modelling, applied AI, and investment analytics, working with founders to design, evolve our data, analytics, and modelling platform. You will own end‑to‑end development across frontend dashboards (React/Next.js), backend services, data pipelines, and production modelling, translating research into scalable software for

Qualifications

• Master's or PhD in a quantitative discipline (or equivalent).
• 5+ years of relevant professional experience in quantitative modelling, software engineering, or applied research.
• Strong software engineering skills with production‑quality systems experience.
• Expert‑level Python with numerical/ML libraries (NumPy, pandas, PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow).
• Deep understanding of statistical modelling, optimisation or ML techniques.
• Experience building and operating backend systems and data pipelines in a cloud environment (AWS, GCP or Azure).
• Experience validating, testing, and deploying quantitative or ML models.
• Comfortable with high ownership in a small, senior team.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and evolve Allocation Strategy's core modelling, analytics, and client‑facing platform.
• Develop frontend dashboards and component libraries using React/Next.js.
• Build and maintain backend services, APIs, databases and data pipelines.
• Prototype and productionise modelling approaches, translating research into production code.
• Prepare, clean, analyse, and maintain financial datasets for modelling and analytics.
• Harden new tooling and models for scalable, reliable performance.
• Contribute to cloud infrastructure evolution on GCP and related tooling.

Skills

Python

Quantitative modelling

Software engineering

Data analysis

Cloud computing

Communication

Education

Master's or PhD in quantitative discipline

Tools

NumPy

pandas

PyTorch

JAX

TensorFlow

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Allocation Strategy Ltd. in London is seeking a Senior Quantitative Engineer to join our technology team.

This hands-on, early‑stage role spans software engineering, quantitative modelling, applied AI, and investment analytics, working with founders to design, evolve our data, analytics, and modelling platform. You will own end‑to‑end development across frontend dashboards (React/Next.js), backend services, data pipelines, and production modelling, translating research into scalable software for