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Vertex Search
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3 weeks ago
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Quantitative Developer - London - leading quant trading firm - exceptional comp & bens


We are working with a leading systematic hedge fund who are seeking talented Quantitative Developers to work in the front office space alongside quant researchers, data scientists and engineers of various disciplines. As an embedded quant developer, you will work closely with the business to analyse data and develop and run production signal pipelines. You will contribute ideas, tools and systems to enhance trading capabilities. Embedded engineers get to see the impact of their actions, including visibility of daily P&L attribution. The role is broad and not limited to performance optimisation, rearchitecting systems, enabling large-scale ML model training, building out research tooling and much more.


About you:

  • Strong experience of software engineering and end-to-end solutions ownership.
  • Proficiency with Python and / or C# (other OO languages are a plus)
  • Solid understanding of software architecture, algorithms, data structures and computer science fundamentals
  • Interest or experience in quant finance
  • Advanced knowledge of the python data science stack (Pandas, NumPy, SciPy) is a plus
  • Strong academic background from a top tier university a major plus


If this sounds of interest we'd love to hear from you! Vertex Search is acting as a recruitment agency on this engagement.

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