Durlston Partners
Quantitative Developer
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Quantitative Developer - Front Office - London - Hedge Fund - Up to £350k TC
We are working exclusively with a fast-growing London-based hedge fund to hire a Quantitative Developer into their front office technology team. The firm has scaled rapidly since launch and is building out its technology platform at pace, this is a genuine opportunity to join early and have real impact.
You will sit directly alongside portfolio managers, quant researchers, and traders, owning technology end to end in a flat, decentralised team of around 16 engineers. Every engineer owns a domain from requirements through to production, with no layers of management in between. The team is cloud-first, engineering-rigorous, and operates with a start-up mindset despite the scale of the business.
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The immediate focus spans quantitative analytics, risk analytics, real-time data applications, and developer tooling, with growing emphasis on extending the platform.
What they need:
- Strong Python development experience in a production, enterprise environment
- Financial services or capital markets background, front office technology preferred
- Distributed systems, APIs, event-driven architecture, CI/CD, cloud-native
- C++ or Rust a plus
- Comfort using AI-assisted development tools as part of your day-to-day workflow
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Compensation is competitive and open depending on the profile.
If you are a Python-first engineer with a financial markets background who wants to be at the heart of what a high-growth hedge fund is building, get in touch.
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