Quantitative Developer - Python
Fintal Partners
A leading quantitative trading firm is seeking a Quantitative Developer with strong Python programming skills and experience supporting quantitative research and systematic trading . Working closely with traders and quantitative researchers, you'll build the research tools, signal pipelines, and production systems that turn trading ideas into live strategies.
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The role combines hands-on Python development with direct involvement in signal development, market data analysis, backtesting, and research implementation . You'll help researchers evaluate ideas efficiently and translate promising results into reliable tools for trading desks. Experience with both pandas and Polars is highly desirable , alongside a strong understanding of the data and computational challenges involved in quantitative trading.
What you'll do:
- Partner with traders and quantitative researchers to develop, evaluate, and implement trading signals and research ideas.
- Build Python tools for analyzing large-scale market datasets and supporting quantitative experimentation.
- Develop data, feature, and signal pipelines that connect research workflows with live trading.
- Build and enhance backtesting and simulation infrastructure that reflects market behavior and real-world trading constraints.
- Improve the speed, scalability, and memory efficiency of research workflows, enabling faster iteration on trading ideas.
- Translate research code into robust, production-quality systems deployed directly to trading desks.
- Investigate data quality and implementation issues that affect research validity and production reliability.
Qualifications:
- 3–7 years of experience in quantitative development, research engineering, or a closely related role, preferably within a proprietary trading firm, hedge fund, or systematic investment team
- Excellent Python coding skills , with experience developing tools and production systems for quantitative research or trading.
- Strong proficiency in pandas and/or Polars, ideally with practical experience in both
- Hands-on experience with market data, signal pipelines, backtesting, and simulation workflows
- Experience processing large financial datasets and optimizing data-intensive research workflows.
- A strong foundation in probability, statistics, and time series analysis.
- An understanding of machine learning concepts and their application to systematic trading.
- The ability to work closely with traders and researchers, understand the reasoning behind a research idea, and translate it into an effective technical implementation. xhyhwjd
Experience with low-latency trading systems is a plus.
Vacancy posted 4 days ago
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