Durlston Partners
Junior Quant Developer
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Junior Quantitative Developer - Hedge Fund - London - up to £100,000 Base + Benefits
The Business
A growing hedge fund is hiring a Junior Quantitative Developer to help build the technology, data infrastructure, and portfolio tools that power its strategies.
This is a genuine greenfield build. You'll work across software engineering, data engineering, quantitative research, and portfolio construction, with senior access to PMs and researchers from day one. The remit is deliberately broad, spanning tech, research, and ops, and the focus is on building systems rather than maintaining them.
You'll sit close to the investment team, helping shape portfolio construction, risk management, and operational infrastructure as the platform scales.
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What you'll be doing
- Developing internal systems and designing APIs, with input into database design and optimisation
- Building and maintaining data pipelines, integrating market and reference data, and owning data quality
- Supporting portfolio construction research, risk model development, and statistical analysis of investment signals
- Building risk analytics tools, exposure dashboards, and supporting stress testing and scenario analysis
- Supporting OMS/EMS integration, reconciliation workflows, and automated reporting
You'll need
- 1-3 years in a quantitative developer, quant analyst, or adjacent role
- Strong Python and SQL, with hands-on relational database and API experience
- Comfort with version control (Git/GitHub) and working with large, messy real-world datasets
- Strong statistics and probability, and a genuine interest in quantitative investing
- Can come from Buy-side or Sell-side
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A degree in a numerate discipline (Maths, Physics, Engineering, CS or similar) is preferred. Equities experience is a bonus.
This role suits someone who wants to move beyond a narrow dev remit and gain exposure across technology, research, portfolio construction, and operations.
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