Data Developer
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[Employer hidden — view at passion-project.co.uk] is an innovative, financial technology firm specialising in quantitative trading, compromised of [Employer hidden] Funds and [Employer hidden] Securities.
[Employer hidden] Securities regulated by the FCA, SFC, and CTFC, and CIMA registered, is a leading algorithmic trading firm and trusted electronic market maker, providing liquidity, technology and prime services to institutional clients and trading venues globally. The firm offers full-service prime brokerage and execution via its cutting-edge proprietary technology, as well as market leading analytics, cleared through the group’s bank Prime Brokers.
[Employer hidden] Funds is an alternative asset manager specialising in systematic investing. Each strategy is unique, provides a specialist quantitative approach and is designed to deliver highly diversifying absolute returns for institutional portfolios.
About the Role:
We are growing the Data Team at [Employer hidden]. This is a full stack python development role, focused on data. An ideal candidate would have enthusiasm for quantitative data and a drive to understand, model and analyse a variety of datasets, collaborating across a fast paced, multi-disciplinary team.
Responsibilities:
- Onboard, build and model datasets of varying frequency
- Explore data, conduct analysis and integrate data into our backtest framework
- Collaborate closely with quantitative researchers and the wider investment teams
- Production support for datasets in live trading
- Ongoing work to grow and develop the system across strategies and regions
Qualifications:
- 3+ years of commercial software engineering experience
- Strong python programming skills
- Experience with financial data, ideally equities, derivatives or other tradeable asset classes
- Experience working with data in quantitative investing and the ability to deliver practical solutions in imperfect data environments
- Familiarity with numerical python libraries e.g., numpy, pandas and polars
- SQL experience with any flavour of SQL
- Experience with version control, test driven development, linux and navigating and working in large codebase
- Flexibility to work across a variety of areas in a highly collaborative team and take significant ownership of tasks