Quant Developer - Contract - 3 days per week on site in London - Market Rate

Quant Developer - Contract - 3 days per week on site in London - Market Rate

What you'll be doing

• Modernise Legacy quantitative analytics and pricing libraries (C/C++ modular services)

• Refactor monolithic systems into clean, testable components

• Migrate on-prem build/test infrastructure to Azure cloud

• Containerise workloads and improve CI/CD pipelines

• Improve performance, reliability, and scalability of analytics engines

• Integrate Python tooling and modern data workflows

• Collaborate with quants and engineers to preserve model accuracy during migration

• Implement automated testing, monitoring, and deployment practices

• Contribute to architectural decisions and engineering standards

Tech environment

• C/C++

• Python

• Shell Scripting

• Azure (cloud migration & hosting)

• CI/CD pipelines

• Linux environments

• Legacy financial analytics/Yield Book style models

What we're looking for

• Strong C/C++ engineering experience in performance-sensitive systems

• Solid Python for tooling, Scripting, and integration

• Experience modernising or refactoring Legacy codebases

• Cloud experience (Azure preferred, AWS/GCP also fine)

• Familiar with CI/CD, containerisation, and DevOps practices

• Comfortable working closely with quantitative or financial analytics teams

• Strong debugging and optimisation skills

• Experience in Fixed Income or pricing analytics is a plus

Nice to have

• Yield Book or Fixed Income analytics exposure

• Microservices or distributed systems experience

• Docker/Kubernetes

• Infrastructure-as-code

• Financial services or capital markets background