Quantitative Developer

Fruition Group Ireland; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Health benefits

Professional development

Hybrid work

Performance-related benefits

Job summary

Fruition Group Ireland seeks an experienced Quantitative Engineer to design and develop high-performance software solutions, quantitative models and scalable cloud-based applications within a growing SaaS environment.

You will architect and implement in C++, build modern tooling in TypeScript, and deploy on AWS, collaborating with product and engineering teams to translate complex business requirements into robust technical solutions.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Proficiency in C++ and performance optimisation.
• Experience with AWS and cloud-native systems.
• Experience designing scalable APIs or microservices.
• Strong knowledge of algorithms and data structures.
• Experience with Python for modelling or data processing.
• Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with CI/CD and Terraform.
• SQL and NoSQL databases knowledge.
• Agile software development experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain high-performance quantitative apps using C++.
• Build tooling using TypeScript.
• Develop scalable AWS cloud solutions.
• Collaborate with teams to translate business requirements.
• Develop algorithms and data-driven functionality for SaaS.
• Optimise apps for performance and reliability.
• Contribute to architecture, design reviews and best practices.
• Support automated testing, deployment and monitoring.

Skills

Strong analytical skills

Excellent communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Postgraduate qualification advantageous

Tools

C++

AWS

Python

TypeScript

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

SQL

NoSQL

REST APIs

CI/CD

Job description

Job Description

My client, a growing SaaS organisation, is seeking an experienced Quantitative Engineer to design and develop high-performance software solutions, quantitative models and scalable cloud-based applications.

Job Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain high-performance quantitative applications and services using C++.
• Build and enhance modern application components and internal tooling using TypeScript.
• Develop scalable, reliable and secure solutions within an AWS cloud environment.
• Work closely with quantitative, product and engineering teams to translate complex business requirements into robust technical solutions.
• Develop algorithms, models and data-driven functionality for use within production SaaS platforms.
• Optimise existing applications for performance, scalability, latency and reliability.
• Contribute to software architecture, technical design, code reviews and engineering best practices.
• Support automated testing, deployment and monitoring processes across the software development lifecycle.

Experience Required

• Minimum 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, ideally within quantitative, financial technology, data-intensive or SaaS environments.
• Strong commercial development experience with C++, including performance optimisation, data structures and object-oriented programming.
• Strong experience working with AWS and building or supporting cloud-native production systems.
• Experience designing scalable APIs, distributed applications or microservices-based architectures.
• Strong understanding of algorithms, numerical methods, data structures and software engineering principles.
• Experience working with large or complex datasets and developing reliable data-processing solutions.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to communicate technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with Python for modelling, analytics, prototyping or data processing.
• Knowledge of financial modelling, optimisation techniques, statistical analysis or mathematical modelling.
• Experience with AWS services such as Lambda, ECS, EKS, S3, RDS, DynamoDB or CloudWatch.
• Exposure to containerisation and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform.
• Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL database technologies.
• Previous experience developing commercial SaaS products within an Agile engineering environment.

Educational Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or third-level qualification in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Engineering or a related technical discipline.
• A postgraduate qualification in a quantitative or technical subject would be advantageous but is not essential.
• Permanent, full-time position.
• Hybrid working arrangements.
• Flexible working options.
• Competitive salary and performance-related benefits.
• Pension contribution.
• Health and wellbeing benefits.
• Professional development and training opportunities.
• Opportunity to work within a highly technical SaaS engineering environment using modern cloud technologies.