Paragon Alpha - Hedge Fund Talent Business
AI/Software Engineer | Quant Hedge Fund
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Our client is a $70BN quant hedge fund - after some serious gains in 2025, they are looking for world-class engineers to join them.
They're hiring into a high-impact Software Engineering team responsible for building the next generation of front-office financial infrastructure. Current initiatives include:
- A greenfield margining platform
- Cash optimization systems
- Intelligent position allocation
- Expanding support for new asset classes, including Fixed Income
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Around half of the team's roadmap is dedicated to AI engineering, developing intelligent systems that:
- Automate financial workflows
- Optimize capital efficiency
- Improve operational decision-making
- Embed LLMs and machine learning into core business processes
The team is led by one of the firm's most respected engineering leaders, who also heads AI Governance - helping define how AI is deployed responsibly across a world-class quantitative trading business.
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From a technical perspective, you'll be building large-scale distributed systems using C# and/or Java, working with:
- Kafka/Flink event-driven architectures
- Spark data processing
- Kubernetes
- SQL
- Modern cloud-native engineering practices
We're operating with significant flexibility on compensation for exceptional engineers.
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