Paragon Alpha - Hedge Fund Talent Business
Quantitative Developer
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Quantitative Developer – Systematic Trading
We are working with a leading quantitative investment manager looking to hire an experienced Quantitative Developer to join a team working directly alongside Quantitative Researchers and Portfolio Managers.
This is an embedded role within the research environment, sitting at the intersection of quantitative research, systematic trading and software engineering. You’ll have exposure to the investment process while taking ownership of the technology that allows researchers to develop, test and deploy systematic strategies.
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The Role
You will help build and evolve the firm's quantitative trading and research framework, working closely with researchers to take strategies from research through to production.
This will include:
- Improving research workflows
- Productionising trading strategies
- Building tools and infrastructure across the strategy lifecycle
- Raising engineering standards across the research environment
The team is also increasingly working with machine learning and AI-driven research, providing the opportunity to build infrastructure and tooling supporting these initiatives.
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What We're Looking For
- 5+ years' experience as a Quantitative Developer, Quant Technologist or similar
- Strong Python development skills
- Experience working directly with Quantitative Researchers within systematic trading
- Good understanding of quantitative strategies and the underlying investment logic
- Experience taking research code and strategies into robust production environments
- Exposure to ML pipelines and production machine learning
- Strong software engineering practices across testing, architecture, and code quality
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