Senior Quantitative Engineer - Energy Trading Front Office

EDF Trading; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

EDF Trading is seeking a senior quantitative development professional to join the Quantitative Solutions/Engineering teams in London. You will build and support pricing, risk, and analytics tools for multiple energy and environmental products in a fast-paced front-office environment.

You will work across C#/.NET and C++ interop, leverage modern CI/CD pipelines with Docker/Kubernetes, and collaborate with quantitative analysts and developers to deliver robust, scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• Software development experience (10+ years).
• Commodities product knowledge and experience (Power / Gas / Complex Derivatives).
• Experience on a technology team within a financial institution, ideally in a front office.
• Previous experience in a trading operation, preferably energy or other commodity trading.
• Understanding of financial products including derivatives and options; familiarity with physically delivered commodities desirable.
• Mathematically minded with exposure to financial math theory.

Responsibilities

• Engage with users to gather requirements and own delivery within timelines.
• Adhere to standards including documentation, testing and peer review.
• Provide full visibility of work via backlog and develop high-quality code with test coverage.
• Refactor and enhance existing components to standardise and reduce duplication.
• Provide detailed documentation of features and assist production operations during rollout and support.
• Advise on architecture, data model, and system design per project.

Skills

C# & .NET

C++ interop

Distributed architecture

CI/CD

APIs

GIT

Front end development

Analytical mindset

Problem solving

Trading domain knowledge

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

SQL Server

MongoDB

Memcached/Redis

Entity Framework Core

Job description

EDF Trading is seeking a senior quantitative development professional to join the Quantitative Solutions/Engineering teams in London. You will build and support pricing, risk, and analytics tools for multiple energy and environmental products in a fast-paced front-office environment.

You will work across C#/.NET and C++ interop, leverage modern CI/CD pipelines with Docker/Kubernetes, and collaborate with quantitative analysts and developers to deliver robust, scalable solutions.