Front Office Quantitative Developer
Lorien6-Month Contract
Competitive Day Rate | Inside IR35
London | 50% Onsite
We're partnering with a leading organisation in the Global Markets sector to hire an experienced Quant Developer to join a Front Office electronic trading technology team.
This is a hands-on role focused on the development and enhancement of a next-generation algorithmic trading platform, supporting trading, quantitative research and execution across global markets.
Key Responsibilities- Develop and enhance core electronic trading platform components.
- Deliver strategic platform improvement and roadmap initiatives.
- Build Real Time monitoring, observability and performance tools.
- Improve platform scalability, reliability and operational efficiency.
- Support release management and production environments.
- Work closely with traders, quants and technology teams on new initiatives.
- Provide technical leadership and mentor junior team members.
Required Experience
- Strong Java development experience.
- Advanced Python skills.
- Electronic trading, algorithmic trading or Front Office trading technology experience.
- Background within Capital Markets, Investment Banking or Global Markets.
- Experience developing monitoring and performance tooling.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
Platform Engineering & DevOps
This role is not purely focused on quantitative development. Successful candidates should be comfortable working across the wider platform environment, including:
- CI/CD and build pipelines
- Release and deployment processes
- Developer tooling and platform improvements
- Monitoring, alerting and observability
- Production support and troubleshooting
This is an excellent opportunity for a senior engineer who enjoys combining electronic trading, quantitative development and platform engineering within a high-performance Front Office environment.
Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.