Senior Quant Developer Python​/C++

Role: Senior Quant Developer
Client: London’s most selective quantitative investment fund
Compensation: Highly competitive with significant performance-based upside
Location: London

Overview

We are partnering with one of London’s most selective and highest-performing quantitative investment funds to appoint a Senior Quant Developer to their core systematic trading group. This is a confidential mandate for a team renowned for world-class engineering standards, scientific rigour, and a culture built around high impact and low ego. The successful candidate will work at the intersection of quantitative research, data engineering, and high-performance software development — with code that moves rapidly from prototype to production and directly influences trading performance.

The Role

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 product ionise 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.