Role: Senior Quant DeveloperClient: London’s most selective quantitative investment fundCompensation: Highly competitive with significant performance-based upsideLocation: London
OverviewWe are partnering with one of London’s most selective and highest-performing quantitative investment funds to appoint a Senior 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 RoleAs a Quant Developer, you will work at the intersection of quantitative research, data engineering, and high-performance software development. You will be responsible for ensuring code moves rapidly from prototype to production and directly influences trading performance.
Key responsibilities include:
• Collaborating closely with quant researchers to productionise models and design scalable research/tooling infrastructure
• Developing high-performance, robust code across Python and C++
• Building and maintaining data pipelines, research platforms, and components of the live trading stack
• Optimising system performance, reliability, and throughput across large-scale datasets
• Contributing to architectural decisions across the full research-to-execution workflow
Requirements
• Exceptional programming skills in Python and/or C++, with a focus on writing clean, performant production code
• Strong understanding of core CS fundamentals (algorithms, distributed systems, profiling, testing)
• Experience in a systematic trading environment or quantitative data domain is highly advantageous, though not essential
• A problem-solver with the ability to work collaboratively in a highly technical, research-driven environment
• Humility, curiosity, and a desire to build systems that have real, measurable impact
• Computer Science or STEM degree from a good university
What’s on Offer
• Opportunity to join a top-performing fund with a deeply technical culture
• Work directly with elite researchers and developers on complex, meaningful problems
• Highly competitive compensation with significant performance-based upside
• Exposure to world-class infrastructure, datasets, and compute environments
• A role where strong engineering truly drives investment performance
If you are interested in this Senior Quant Developer position and meet the above requirements please apply immediately.
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