Quantitative Developer

I am delighted to be supporting a hugely exciting organisation based in Newcastle upon Tyne with the recruitment of a Quant Developer. Responsibilities include : Working with stakeholders to understand business needs and opportunities and how we can best meet them in the short, medium and long term Designing, building and maintaining solutions, principally in C# (and where applicable SQL, TypeScript, Python, C++ and PowerShell), to the highest design, testing and operational standards Reviewing the development work of colleagues in Core Quants and other teams Investigating day-to-day quantitative issues; answering business questions on the results and state of the existing system Understanding and measuring the performance characteristics, design and operational parameters of our systems, improving where necessary Assisting Investment Quants with the integration of new analytics models into the quant platform Challenging current systems, processes and delivery approach to achieve common goals through technical excellence and innovation. Experience/background needed: A minimum 2.1 in a numerate degree from a Russell Group University and excellent A Level grades (or equivalent international secondary / tertiary education) Excellent software engineering skills; experience designing and implementing APIs, strong understanding of object-oriented and functional design patterns, distributed system design, concurrent and asynchronous programming Expertise in C# and .NET or the ambition and aptitude to become an expert quickly, as evidenced by your experience with a similar language / platform A strong desire to build software that is robust, supportable and automatically tested; an understanding of how to design software for testability and of complementary testing approaches (unit, functional, integration, regression, smoke, etc.) The ability to reach consensus, to collaborate with others and to work independently A track record of proactively identifying and implementing improvements to existing systems and business processes This role is a full time opportunity - based 4 days a week in office (Newcastle upon Tyne). For full details please apply today.