Quantitative Developer - Risk


City of London
Permanent
GBP200000 - GBP350000
Financial Technology
PR/541597_1744647492
Quantitative Developer - Risk

About the Role:
A fast-growing, technology-driven prime brokerage and financing platform is seeking a talented Quantitative Developer to join its Risk & Scenario Engines team. This role blends quant research and software engineering, with a focus on building scalable systems that bring new models and products into production quickly and efficiently.The team plays a central role in shaping the future of institutional trading across both traditional and digital assets, helping to modernize risk infrastructure and accelerate time-to-market for new products.

Requirements:

  • Develop and productionize risk models and tools used across the trading and risk management stack

  • Improve and extend research tools such as backtesting frameworks, option pricing models and volatility fitting, and internal and external APIs with customized analytics

  • Enhance the functionality, scalability, and maintainability of the firm's risk and scenario engines

  • Work closely with researchers and traders to build robust systems that support dynamic market demands

Your Experience:

  • Strong experience writing production-grade Python code

  • Deep understanding of quantitative modeling, especially within risk or derivatives

  • Background in model development pipelines, from concept to deployment

  • Experience working with large-scale systems in a fast-paced trading or financial environment

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or a related quantitative discipline

  • 5+ years of experience in quantitative software development, ideally within a trading or asset management firm

  • Familiarity with option pricing, risk frameworks, or scenario analysis is a strong plus

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