We have a current opportunity for a Senior Quantitative Developer on a contract basis. The position will be based in London. For further information about this position please apply.
Job Title: Senior Python/Quantitative Developer
Location: Waterloo, UK
Position type: Hybrid
Pay type: £600-£700 per day Inside IR35
Duration: 12 months (Contract to Hire)
Qualifications & experience
- 5+ years of work experience as a software developer, with at least 2 years of productionizing and releasing quantitative models.
- Degree level in STEM, computer science, engineering, mathematics, or a relevant field of applied mathematics.
- Good understanding of Trading terminology and concepts (incl. financial derivatives), preferably gained from experience working in a Trading of Finance environment.
Technical skills
- Expert in core Python with Python scientific stack/ecosystem (including pandas, numpy, scipy, stats), and a second strongly typed language (e.g.: C++, Rust or Java).
- Skilled in application design, security, release, testing and packaging.
- Experience with SQL / no-SQL databases, data pipeline orchestration tools.
- Knowledge of concurrent/distributed programming and performance optimisation methods.
- Experienced in Cloud Technologies - Azure / AWS.
- Experienced in Source Control Technologies (including GitHub, Azure DevOps), CI/CD and Test Automation.
- Mathematics skills, experience working with quantitative methods / probabilistic modelling, preferably in the context of financial derivatives valuation.
- Ability to translate trader or quant analyst's needs into software product requirements.
Personal skills
- Able to work in a fast-paced front office environment and communicate directly with analysts and traders
- Ability to apply an analytical thought process and process complex information.
Key Responsibilities
- Productionise quant models into software applications, ensuring robust day-to-day operation, monitoring and back testing are in place.
- Translate trader or quant analyst's needs into software product requirements.
- Prototype and implement data pipelines.
- Co-ordinate closely with quant analysts during the development of models.
- Produce accurate, performant, scalable, secure software, and support best practices following defined IT standards.
