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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