Senior Quant Developer – Fixed Income fund with equity

Lead quant engineering and get some equity in the business.This is still a relatively new fund, with industry experts at the top, with outside investment and a strong growth strategy in place. The offer of equity at this stage is pretty rare.You’ll be the go-to person within the quant engineering team, collaborating with every single team in the business. The focus is on Fixed Income, applying various new and innovative scientific approaches purely to this market.You’ll be working alongside the Head of Software and Head of Research, acting as a senior figure within the Quant Engineering team. You will work with stakeholders, PMs and researchers every single day to accelerate the research process and be the strategic mind behind quant engineering.Whilst being established, there’s a small and lean team. Your team is already filled with world class engineers, and you’ll be able to grow this organically over your time there. You will be given plenty of ownership of your area with a mandate of optimising as much as possible and improving anything and everything that needs to be improved.As everything is still fairly new, there’s limited legacy code. Everything has been built with a modern approach, with most things being built using Python, Rust and Go – you will take ownership for this code and continue to maintain the high quality.In terms of your experience, you’re going to need to be an expert across all fixed income products. There’s no negotiation on this. A strong background in other products would be useful, but of no interest if you’re not an expert in fixed income. You’ll also need to be an expert with Python.The Domain knowledge is important here, having been a quantitative engineer/developer with knowledge of fixed income products in your career. This is a highly important role where you will shape quantitative engineering for years to come. Buy-side or sell-side experience is fine.As you’ll know, scientific investing within fixed income is a niche space, but you’ll joining a business at the top of their game in this area. Compensation will comprise of base salary, plus bonus, plus some equity in the business.Are you a leader who is looking to get closer to the code?Are you a senior engineer looking for more ownership?Get in touch.No up-to-date CV required.