Core Quant – C# – Prestigious Hedge Fund – Excellent Compensation + Benefits

Mondrian Alpha
Southampton
1 year ago
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My client, a prestigious hedge fund are seeking an elite C# Quantitative Developer to join their established Core Quant team.


You will be joining a highly proficient team in the firm, working closely with PMs, Quant Analysts and Software Engineers in an agile, test-driven environment to support their technology infrastructure surrounding their core analytics library.


Key Responsibilities will include:

  • Taking ownership of technical products and projects surrounding day-to-day quantitative issues.
  • Continuous exposure and daily interaction with the Quants and Software Developers to identify technical challenges.
  • Supporting the integration of various quantitative tasks across the business, such as helping architect valuation, risk and pricing systems.
  • Maintaining close contact with a wide variety of teams, including the architecture group to deliver scalable, high performance streaming compute operations
  • Taking a hands-on approach, embracing the opportunity to be creative when challenging current systems and processes.


A successful candidate will ideally come from the sell-side and have an in-depth and excellent understanding of C#/.Net (other object-oriented languages such as C++/ Python are desirable). They will also have experience working with SQL databases.


Ideal candidates will have:

  • Bachelors or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics or related field
  • 2 - 8 years of experience in software development within a hedge fund, investment bank or other financial institution
  • Strong programming skills in C# and experience with SQL and database management systems
  • Strong analytical and quantitative skills, and experience in statistical analysis, data modeling or machine learning desirable
  • High levels of motivation and continually seeking to improve the performance of self and supportive of others to perform


My client is committed to sizable increases on any base salary alongside market-leading bonuses. As well as a market-leading compensation package, they offer exceptional benefits from only the best private healthcare to in-house Michelin-star quality food (free for all staff).


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