Edge-Driven Quantitative Developer (Research to Production)

Fintal Partners; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Fintal Partners is seeking a Quantitative Developer to own the journey from research to live trading. The role sits between research and engineering, enabling fast feedback loops from idea to execution and directly impacting trading results.

You’ll build systems that bridge research and production, develop backtesting and simulation infrastructure, and define feature pipelines across instruments and time horizons. Collaboration across research and engineering is essential to success.

Qualifications

• 3–7 years of quantitative software development experience.
• Strong Python production skills and data analysis using Pandas/Polars.
• Background in probability, statistics and time series analysis.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain systems bridging research and production for fast iteration.
• Develop realistic simulation and backtesting infrastructure.
• Define and manage features across instruments, regimes and horizons.
• Own feature and signal pipelines from research to execution.
• Help optimize strategies considering practical constraints.
• Troubleshoot end-to-end across research and execution.

Skills

Python

Data analysis tools

Time series analysis

ML for trading

Low-latency systems

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

Pandas

Polars

Back-testing frameworks

Job description

Fintal Partners is seeking a Quantitative Developer to own the journey from research to live trading. The role sits between research and engineering, enabling fast feedback loops from idea to execution and directly impacting trading results.

You’ll build systems that bridge research and production, develop backtesting and simulation infrastructure, and define feature pipelines across instruments and time horizons. Collaboration across research and engineering is essential to success.