Aspect Capital is an award-winning specialist money manager at the forefront of research into financial markets. We apply systematic quantitative research techniques across a broad spectrum of financial products and markets to deliver returns to investors. We are looking for a Quantitative Developer to be involved in every stage of the signal generation workflow - from working alongside researchers to integrate strategies, through to building the platform required to support a global signal generation process in the research and production environments.
Responsibilities:
- Maintain, develop and support the MATLAB software platform used for research backtesting and production signal generation.
- Deliver strategic enhancements to our intraday simulation and attribution platform
- Integrate new asset classes and trading strategies with the signal generation engines
- Liaise with other teams in the business such as Software Development to paper trade and coordinate changes to the trading programmes
- Contribute to the delivery of greenfield projects such as the build-out of a new Python research environment and backtest capability
You will gain in-depth exposure to the workings of financial markets across a diverse range of asset classes. The development process is agile, highly collaborative and focuses heavily on continuous improvement.
The ideal candidate will have:
- Proficiency with one or more programming languages
- 1-2 years of experience working in software development
- Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Mathematics, or equivalent field
This role is suited to candidates who:
- Are interested in a software environment built around timeseries manipulation and analysis
- Enjoy engineering novel solutions within existing architecture and platforms
- Have a natural inclination for building up a deep understanding of existing complex systems and designing improvements to those systems
- Are happy to primarily code in MATLAB
- Are happy mixing object orientated coding with functional and mathematical programming
Additional skills and interests that would be great, but not strictly necessary:
- Basic knowledge of SQL
- Basic knowledge of AWS
- Interested in working with distributed systems
If this sounds of interest, we would love to hear from you.
Please note we are currently unable to sponsor candidates who require a Tier2 visa