Senior Quant Developer
🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 24 April 2026
LOCATION
London
TYPE
Full-time
LEVEL
Mid-Senior level
SALARY
£200,000 / year
CATEGORY
Technology
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SKILLS
Python
C++
Algorithms
Distributed Systems
Data Pipelines
System Performance
Quantitative Research
FULL DESCRIPTION
Role: Senior Quant Developer
Client: London’s most selective quantitative investment fund
Compensation: Highly competitive with significant performance-based upside
Location: London
Job Description
As 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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