I am delighted to be supporting a hugely exciting organisation based in Newcastle upon Tyne with the recruitment of a Quant Developer.
Responsibilities include:
- Working with stakeholders to understand business needs and opportunities and how we can best meet them in the short, medium and long term
- Designing, building and maintaining solutions, principally in C# (and where applicable SQL, TypeScript, Python, C++ and PowerShell), to the highest design, testing and operational standards
- Reviewing the development work of colleagues in Core Quants and other teams
- Investigating day-to-day quantitative issues; answering business questions on the results and state of the existing system
- Understanding and measuring the performance characteristics, design and operational parameters of our systems, improving where necessary
- Assisting Investment Quants with the integration of new analytics models into the quant platform
- Challenging current systems, processes and delivery approach to achieve common goals through technical excellence and innovation.
Experience/background needed:
- A minimum 2.1 in a numerate degree from a Russell Group University and excellent A Level grades (or equivalent international secondary / tertiary education)
- Excellent software engineering skills; experience designing and implementing APIs, strong understanding of object-oriented and functional design patterns, distributed system design, concurrent and asynchronous programming
- Expertise in C# and .NET or the ambition and aptitude to become an expert quickly, as evidenced by your experience with a similar language / platform
- A strong desire to build software that is robust, supportable and automatically tested; an understanding of how to design software for testability and of complementary testing approaches (unit, functional, integration, regression, smoke, etc.)
- The ability to reach consensus, to collaborate with others and to work independently
- A track record of proactively identifying and implementing improvements to existing systems and business processes
This role is a full time opportunity - based 4 days a week in office (Newcastle upon Tyne). For full details please apply today.