Python Developer – Quant Hedgefund

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

Responsibilities

• 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

Key requirements

• 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

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