Senior Quant Engineer: Front-Office, Greenfield Build, Remote

Barclay Simpson; United States; Remote; GBP 140,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclay Simpson is partnering with an ambitious quant technology business to recruit a senior Quant Developer for remote, greenfield front-office pricing work. The role offers direct exposure to desk quants and trading teams across major institutions, with leadership input on architecture and technical direction.

You will build pricing libraries from scratch, develop quant tooling used by traders, and tackle challenging computational finance problems from day one in a highly entrepreneurial

Qualifications

• Strong mathematical and quantitative background.
• Deep understanding of numerical methods and computational finance.
• 10+ years experience building pricing libraries, quant frameworks or analytics platforms.
• Excellent software engineering capability, ideally with strong C++ expertise.
• Knowledge of derivatives pricing and capital markets products.
• Experience developing production-grade quant systems.
• Desire to create practical solutions that users actually want to use.
• Asset class expertise and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Build pricing libraries from scratch.
• Develop front-office quant tooling used by traders and desk quants.
• Solve complex numerical and computational finance challenges.
• Design scalable quant infrastructure and frameworks.
• Improve performance, deployment and usability of pricing systems.
• Work closely with Heads of Quant and senior stakeholders at leading banks.
• Influence product strategy, architecture and technical direction.
• Join a business where your contribution will have visible impact.

Skills

Mathematics

Numerical methods

C++ expertise

Derivatives pricing

Quant systems

Pricing libraries

Front-office tooling

Job description

Barclay Simpson is partnering with an ambitious quant technology business to recruit a senior Quant Developer for remote, greenfield front-office pricing work. The role offers direct exposure to desk quants and trading teams across major institutions, with leadership input on architecture and technical direction.

You will build pricing libraries from scratch, develop quant tooling used by traders, and tackle challenging computational finance problems from day one in a highly entrepreneurial