Quant Developer

Job description

About the role

As a Quant Developer, you will work closely with our fund researchers. Your challenges will be diverse and you will excel in implementing new trading strategies, building new research frameworks and quant libraries, prototyping new data feeds, developing new portfolio construction techniques or building risk and execution tools.

Tasks

• Implementation of new trading strategies
• Development of new research frameworks and quant libraries
• Prototyping new data feeds
• Development of new portfolio construction techniques
• Development of risk and execution tools

Requirements

No explicit requirements specified.

We offer

• Small, open and transparent corporate culture
• Agile working environment
• Open Plan office with a view of the Thames
• Participation in leading industry conferences
• Open source of some of our technologies (see github.com/man-group)
• Support for professional development

Technology

Our systems mainly run on Linux and our code is mostly written in Python, with the full scientific stack: numpy, scipy, pandas, scikit-learn, to name just a few of the open source libraries we use extensively.

• Python
• Spark for big data processing
• Apache Kafka for real-time data pipelines
• Bamboo for data pipelines
• Backtick for source code control
• Sparkline for data collection
• ELK for log scraping and monitoring
• Docker and Kubernetes for container orchestration
• Operator for our real-time systems
• Ansible and Terraform for automation
• Slack for internal communication

Corporate culture

• Small, open and transparent corporate culture
• Agile working environment
• Support for professional development
• Opportunities for growth and influence