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Quant Developer, Risk - London or NYC- Global Prime Brokerage & Financing Platform

Oxford KnightLondon🇬🇧United KingdomPosted 16 Sept 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

Advance your quant development career at a rapidly growing global financial services firm, building and enhancing risk models for traditional and digital assets with exciting opportunities for impact and professional growth. This hybrid role is perfect for experienced Python developers with a strong quantitative background who thrive in innovative environments. Embrace this chance to contribute to a leading platform and shape the future of risk management.

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Employment type
Full Time
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
London, United Kingdom
Posted
2 days ago
Python

Job Description

Exciting opportunity at one of the fastest growing financial services firms around the world. They offer prime brokerage, clearing and financing across traditional and digital assets, and are now looking to hire world-class Python software engineers to help build on their success.

Responsibilities
  • Ensuring risk models are in a production-ready state by contributing to various parts of development, in particular the productionization
  • Improving research tools and models, e.g. backtesting
  • Developing APIs for internal and external customers with customized analytics
  • Maintaining, improving and extending the scenario engine and risk engine code

Skills & Experience Required
  • Minimum 5+ years' quant software development experience, preferably at a top-tier financial services firm
  • Ability to write production-grade (robust and maintainable) Python code
  • BS degree or above in Computer Science, Mathematics, or related field
  • Previous hands-on experience of (some part of) a model-building pipeline (e.g. risk, alpha, etc.)
  • Built large-scale, distributed systems


Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.

Contact
If you feel you are suitable for this role, drop me an email or give me a call!

Jack Peck
[e] jack.peck@oxfordknight.co.uk
[t] +44 20 3745 6537
linkedin.com/in/jack-peck-448a70131

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