Quantitative Developer

Quantitative Developer / Research Engineer Tier 1 Systematic Equities | Front Office New York · Chicago · Miami | Python / C++ | 5–15 yearsLet me ask you something honest.Are you actually working at the level you're capable of, or are you just close enough to interesting problems to stay?Most high-calibre engineers aren't held back by ability. They're held back by structure. Research over here. Engineering over there. Capital decisions somewhere else entirely.Trading teams don't work that way.The platformHF/MF Systematic equities. One of the most technically demanding investment environments in the industry. A small, embedded engineering and research team that works directly inside the investment process not in support of it.The problems are real, the systems are live, and the feedback loop is immediate.The workYou'll own pieces across the full stack of a systematic strategy:Ingesting and structuring large, complex datasetsBuilding research environments and backtesting infrastructureDesigning portfolio construction and optimisation systems Developing execution and order routing logic Building post-trade analytics that close the loop back into researchWho should applyParticularly strong fit for engineers coming from algorithmically heavy backgrounds, recommendation systems, simulation frameworks, reinforcement learning infrastructure, large-scale ML pipelines. If you've built systems where models interact with live feedback and the results are measurable, the mental models transfer directly.Finance experience is not required. Most of the strongest people here don't have it.Other backgrounds that map well: distributed systems, high-performance C++, scientific computing, data platform engineering.What makes someone successful hereThey want to own things. They care about whether the system actually works in production, not just in testing. They're curious about markets the same way they'd be curious about any complex adaptive system.Compensation is structured to compete with the best ML and systems roles in the market.DM to discuss.