Python Developer – Quant Hedgefund
Quant Capital · London, United Kingdom ·
- Category
- Software engineering
- Experience
- 2+ years
Overview
In this front-office Python Developer role, you will help design and maintain a new Python platform for research, back-testing, and live trading of quantitative strategies within a top-tier hedge fund. You’ll collaborate with the Quant team to build pricing models, a research platform, and data-loading infrastructure that handles live and third-party data. The position emphasizes front-office impact, fast iteration, and working with a high-performance trading team in London. You will shape scalable data and trading tools while contributing to a leading quantitative trading effort.
Pay / Benefits- bonus scheme
- competitive salary
- London-based role
- benefits package
- Design, develop and maintain a new Python platform for research, back-testing and trading of quantitative strategies
- Build and maintain data infrastructure and data-loading framework with multiple data sources
- Develop pricing models from scratch, test and optimize them
- Create a research platform for back-testing quant strategies
- Develop and maintain trading tools and overnight processes
- Support production environments and distributed processing
- Work with client/server architecture and web services
- Handle relational databases (SQL) and document store (MongoDB)
- Collaborate with the Quant team to deliver front-office trading capabilities
- Computer Science Degree
- 2+ years pure Python development experience in a bank, asset manager or fund
- Strong analytical skills
- Strong knowledge of Excel and VBA plus advanced SQL
- Experience with system design, programming and maintenance
- Experience supporting production environments
- Experience with distributed processing
- Experience with client/server architecture
- Experience with web services
- In-depth Python development experience
- Strong experience with relational databases (SQL) and MongoDB
- Strong maths skills
- EU passport holder (required)
- Python
- Excel
- VBA
- SQL
- system design
- production support