Selby Jennings
Senior / Lead Quantitative Developer - Commodities
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Our client, one of the world's leading commodities trading firms, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join its London-based team.
This is a high-impact opportunity offering a clear path towards becoming the successor to the current Technical Lead. The role combines technical leadership responsibilities with hands-on engineering, enabling you to influence both the strategic direction and day-to-day development of critical systems.
Working closely with analysts and traders, you will help transform business ideas into scalable production solutions.
Responsibilities
- Building analytics platforms
- Developing research infrastructure and data pipelines
- Taking ownership of data ingestion capabilities that underpin key trading and business functions
Ideal Profile
- Experience within financial services
- A diverse background spanning both established organisations and smaller, entrepreneurial environments
- Previous leadership or team management experience
- Passionate about hands-on software engineering and technical delivery
- Strong commercial awareness
- An ownership mentality
- The ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced environment
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- Partner with analysts and traders to transform ideas into scalable production systems.
- Build analytics platforms, research infrastructure, and data pipelines.
- Own data ingestion capabilities, including APIs, alternative data, and scraping frameworks.
- Ensure availability, accessibility, and quality of data required for modeling and research.
- Collaborate with analysts who build their own models, helping productionize, scale, and operationalize those solutions.
- Develop internal tools, workflows, and visualization capabilities that improve business efficiency.
A highly capable software engineer with a strong balance of technical depth, leadership capability, and commercial awareness.
- Experience within financial services is preferred, though candidates from leading technology firms with previous financial markets exposure will also be considered.
- Comfortable operating across a variety of business environments, from large global organisations to smaller, fast-paced and entrepreneurial firms.
- Demonstrated experience building, scaling, or transforming technology platforms, infrastructure, or engineering functions.
- A self-starter who can identify opportunities, take ownership of initiatives, and deliver results independently.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to partner effectively with business users, analysts, and traders.
- Previous team leadership or management experience, coupled with the desire to remain closely involved in technical design, development, and delivery.
- An ownership mentality with a passion for solving complex problems and driving continuous improvement.
- Comfortable working in an environment where technical excellence, pace, and business impact are equally valued.
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