Tech Lead – Quant Risk & Multi-Asset (Hands-On)

Zygo People; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 180,000; Full time

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Benefits

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Job summary

Zygo People seeks an accomplished Tech Lead – Quant Engineering (Risk & Multi-Asset) in London. You will own critical build decisions, write specs, validate models and implement where needed.

You’ll operate in a flat, fast-moving team with direct exposure to leadership, and mentor juniors as the London hub grows. Expect deep quant finance work, multi-asset risk focus, and strong software engineering across Python, C++, Node/TS, with room to expand into JVM/Kotlin.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering and quant finance.
• Genuine quant finance exposure: formulas, models and implementation.
• Multi-asset risk awareness.
• Hands-on software engineering with leadership potential.
• Adaptable to new languages and stacks.
• Thrives in a startup-paced, low-hierarchy environment.

Responsibilities

• Write specs, validate models and implement them where relevant.
• Mentor as the London team grows and take ownership of platform parts.
• Collaborate directly with product and risk leadership from early on.

Skills

10+ years

Quant finance exposure

Multi-asset risk

Software engineering

Startup environment

New languages/stacks

Job description

Zygo People seeks an accomplished Tech Lead – Quant Engineering (Risk & Multi-Asset) in London. You will own critical build decisions, write specs, validate models and implement where needed.

You’ll operate in a flat, fast-moving team with direct exposure to leadership, and mentor juniors as the London hub grows. Expect deep quant finance work, multi-asset risk focus, and strong software engineering across Python, C++, Node/TS, with room to expand into JVM/Kotlin.