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Quantitative Developer - Fixed Income - Asset Manager (Contract)

An asset manager is improving their risk, P&L, and reporting systems and are looking for an experienced quantitative developer to face off to the traders and quantitative researchers to develop enhanced systems and data capabilities for their fixed income business.

You will have a background in financial markets, ideally on the buy-side, with significant commercial experience developing enterprise production-grade systems and data pipelines in Python and/or Java, a solid understanding of financial products and their representation, and proven experience using AI coding assistants to enable faster delivery in compressed timelines. You will collaborate with quant teams, to ensure their requirements are properly implemented into robust code.

You should apply for this role if you are/have:

1. 8+ years commercial experience developing production-grade enterprise systems in Python and/or Java
2. Asset/investment management experience in the front or middle office systems space
3. Financial product understanding, ideally FIC, with risk/P&L methodologies
4. Experience using AI coding assistants (Claude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot) with significant examples of delivery improvement
5. AWS (S3, Lambda, EC2, Glue), Snowflake, Git, CI/CD, Datadog, MS SQL Server, REST, GraphQL, Airflow (as many as possible)
6. Degree educated or higher in a relevant technical discipline from a leading university

This is a £850-900/day PAYE role (employers NI paid in addition) depending on the relevant experience of the candidate. On site 4/5 days a week, based London.