Quantitative Developer
London

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

Start date
Location London
Benefits As well as a competitive salary and bonus, we have an excellent benefits package including enhanced family friendly policies, sabbaticals, cyclescheme, 25 days holiday (increasing with tenure) and much more. All of our roles are open to some level of flexible working and we'd be happy to discuss that further.
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