At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and develop cutting-edge Python applications for risk analytics.
- Company: Join QRT, a global leader in quantitative investment management.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive salary, flexible work options, and a focus on work-life balance.
- Other info: Opportunity for growth in a dynamic, tech-driven culture.
- Why this job: Make an impact by building innovative solutions in a collaborative environment.
- Qualifications: Strong Python skills and experience with APIs and production systems required.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 75000 £ per year.
Overview
QRT is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager, operating across all liquid asset classes.
We are a data- and technology-driven organization applying scientific methods to investing.
Our collaborative culture and focus on innovation enable us to solve complex challenges and deliver high-quality returns for our investors.
- Role
- Your future role within QRT
We are seeking an experienced Software Engineer to work within our Risk Team to help design and build the next generation of our risk platform.
The role is expected to involve the following activities
Responsibilities
- Design, develop and maintain production-grade Python applications and services.
- Build scalable APIs, distributed systems and data pipelines supporting risk analytics and business workflows.
- Design and develop cloud-native applications using modern software engineering practices.
- Collaborate closely with Risk Managers and Quantitative Researchers to productionise analytical models and enhance existing platforms.
- Design reliable, observable and maintainable software with a strong focus on performance, scalability and operational excellence.
- Contribute to architecture discussions and continuously improve engineering standards, tooling and development practices across the team.
- Leverage modern AI-assisted development tools to improve software quality, developer productivity and delivery.
Qualifications
- Excellent Python development skills
- Strong understanding of object-oriented design and software engineering principles
- Demonstrable experience designing, building and supporting high-quality production systems
- Good knowledge and experience of developing REST APIs and backend services
- Strong SQL knowledge
- Experience with distributed systems, asynchronous processing and data pipelines
- Ability to test, debug and optimise software with a strong focus on reliability and performance
- Experience with containerisation and CI/CD practices
- Demonstrable ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with technical and business stakeholders
- A passion for building robust, maintainable software and continuously improving engineering practices
Desirable
- Cloud-native technologies, including AWS, Docker, Kubernetes and infrastructure automation
- Monitoring and observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, Open Telemetry or similar technologies
- Modern backend and data technologies such as Fast API, Kafka, Airflow, Terraform or g RPC
- Financial markets or another data-intensive, low-latency environment
- Quantitative analytics, trading or risk platforms
- AI-enabled engineering solutions, retrieval-augmented applications or agentic workflows
- Modern AI-assisted development tools as part of the software engineering lifecycle
- EEO
QRT is an equal opportunity employer.
We welcome diversity as essential to our success.
QRT empowers employees to work openly and respectfully to achieve collective success.
In addition to professional achievement, we are offering initiatives and programs to enable employees achieve a healthy work-life balance.
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