Quant Developer - Contract - 3 days per week on site in London - Market Rate

Posted 4 hours 5 minutes ago by Robson Bale Ltd

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London, United Kingdom
Job Description

Quant Developer - Contract - 3 days per week on site in London - Market Rate

What you'll be doing

  • Modernise Legacy quantitative analytics and pricing libraries (C/C++ modular services)

  • Refactor monolithic systems into clean, testable components

  • Migrate on-prem build/test infrastructure to Azure cloud

  • Containerise workloads and improve CI/CD pipelines

  • Improve performance, reliability, and scalability of analytics engines

  • Integrate Python tooling and modern data workflows

  • Collaborate with quants and engineers to preserve model accuracy during migration

  • Implement automated testing, monitoring, and deployment practices

  • Contribute to architectural decisions and engineering standards

Tech environment

  • C/C++

  • Python

  • Shell Scripting

  • Azure (cloud migration & hosting)

  • CI/CD pipelines

  • Linux environments

  • Legacy financial analytics/Yield Book style models

What we're looking for

  • Strong C/C++ engineering experience in performance-sensitive systems

  • Solid Python for tooling, Scripting, and integration

  • Experience modernising or refactoring Legacy codebases

  • Cloud experience (Azure preferred, AWS/GCP also fine)

  • Familiar with CI/CD, containerisation, and DevOps practices

  • Comfortable working closely with quantitative or financial analytics teams

  • Strong debugging and optimisation skills

  • Experience in Fixed Income or pricing analytics is a plus

Nice to have

  • Yield Book or Fixed Income analytics exposure

  • Microservices or distributed systems experience

  • Docker/Kubernetes

  • Infrastructure-as-code

  • Financial services or capital markets background