Senior Quantitative Developer

Urgently seeking a Senior Quantitative Developer,

Initial 6 month contract and the position will be hybrid with weekly visits to site in London.

Requirements

Qualifications & experience

* 5+ years work experience as software developer, with at least 2 years productionizing and releasing quantitative models.

* Good understanding of Trading terminology and concepts (incl. financial derivatives), preferably gained from experience working in a Trading of Finance environment.

Technical skills

* Expert in core Python with Python scientific stack/ecosystem (incl pandas, numpy, scipy, stats), and a second strongly typed language (eg: C++, Rust or Java).

* Skilled in application design, security, release, testing and packaging.

* Experience with SQL/no-SQL databases, data pipeline orchestration tools.

* Knowledge of concurrent/distributed programming and performance optimisation methods.

* Experienced in Cloud Technologies - Azure/AWS.

* Experienced in Source Control Technologies (incl GitHub, Azure DevOps), CI/CD and Test Automation.

* Mathematics skills, experience working with quantitative methods/probabilistic modelling, preferably in the context of financial derivatives valuation.

* Ability to translate trader or quant analyst's need into software product requirements.

Michael Bailey International is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.