Job Description
We are partnering with one of London’s most selective and highest-performing quantitative investment funds to appoint a Quant Developer to their core systematic trading group. This is a confidential mandate for a team renowned for world-class engineering standards, scientific rigour, and a culture built around high impact and low ego.
The successful candidate will work at the intersection of quantitative research, data engineering, and high-performance software development — with code that moves rapidly from prototype to production and directly influences trading performance.
The Role
As a Quant Developer, you will:
* Collaborate closely with quant researchers to productionise models and design scalable research/tooling infrastructure
* Develop high-performance, robust code across Python and C++
* Build and maintain data pipelines, research platforms, and components of the live trading stack
* Optimise system performance, reliability, and throughput across large-scale datasets
* Contribute to architectural decisions across the full research-to-execution workflow
What We’re Looking For
1. Exceptional programming skills in Python and/or C++, with a focus on writing clean, performant production code
2. Strong understanding of core CS fundamentals (algorithms, distributed systems, profiling, testing...