Senior Quantitative Developer - Macro Hedge Fund

My client is a market leading macro focused hedge fund with offices across EMEA, USA, UAE and APAC.

The are looking for a Senior Quantitative Developer to join their Quant Development and Data team.

• An opportunity to work in one of the most exciting and successful buy-side businesses in the City.
• An opportunity to join a strong team with a very high talent density presenting lots of opportunity for learning and development.
• Incredible career progression opportunities with potential access to all areas of the business.
• A market leading compensation package including basic salary and annual bonus.
• Benefits including a non-contributory pension, private healthcare, life assurance and 25 days annual leave.

The team is responsible for the architecture and development of libraries, web services, dashboards, and databases that facilitate Portfolio Managers' alpha generation, strategy deployment, and risk management. Your specific responsibilities will include:

• Building and maintaining quant libraries in Python.
• Engineering large time-series and data solutions and ETLs (using SQL, no-SQL, C#, and Python) for market data, quant analytics and alpha generation.
• Architecting and building scalable web services for applications and front office users.
• Building front end tools for market monitoring, trade screening and risk management. Front end tools can be either web dashboards or Excel tools backed by robust libraries or web services.

• Strong academic background in STEM discipline
• 5+ years of relevant experience in a quantitative development role.
• Demonstrated experience with high-efficiency programming and multi-threading.
• Clear grasp of SQL and relational database fundamentals.
• Ability to multitask and produce high quality code.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.