Python Developer (Quant Team) – Tier 1 Buyside Firm

Are you interested in working in a Quant team at a Tier‑1 buyside firm, building the models and systems that drive real trading decisions?

Role overview

A Tier-1 Buyside firm is hiring a Python Developer to join its Quant team, a core group supporting the firm’s systematic trading strategies. The team is responsible for turning research ideas into robust production models, covering alpha algorithms, portfolio construction, and live trading processes. In this role, you will work closely with multiple investment and research teams, helping to verify research output, design implementation frameworks, and ensure that quantitative strategies are deployed efficiently into real‑world trading.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain quantitative models and alpha-generation algorithms that underpin systematic investment strategies.
• Develop and refine portfolio construction processes, ensuring they are scalable, robust, and aligned with risk and performance objectives.
• Work on a large, complex codebase that implements research ideas into production, focusing on correctness, maintainability, and performance.
• Validate and translate research outputs from quantitative teams into deployable code, ensuring that ideas can be monetised effectively in live trading.
• Collaborate with multiple investment and research teams across asset classes, gaining exposure to a broad range of investment styles and products.
• Diagnose and resolve live trading issues under demanding time constraints, safeguarding the integrity and reliability of systematic strategies.

Requirements

• Strong academic background in a quantitative discipline (e.g. Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, Physics) from a top‑tier university.
• Proficiency in Python, MATLAB, or equivalent languages widely used in quantitative research and modelling.
• Experience working with SQL and relational databases, as well as handling large and complex datasets for research and production purposes.
• Broad understanding of quantitative finance and portfolio management, ideally supported by prior experience implementing or supporting systematic strategies.
• Strong quantitative, analytical, and problem‑solving skills, with a practical mindset towards building solutions that work in production.
• Good communication skills and attention to detail, with the ability to work quickly and accurately under pressure in a trading context.

What the Firm Offers:

• Collaborative, intellectually driven culture.
• Healthy work-life balance with reasonable hours.
• Free breakfast and lunch, gym reimbursement, social events.
• Private healthcare, education assistance, and corporate discounts.
• Flat hierarchy and greenfield impact

Please send your CV to Wisely Collin at wisely.collin@ashford-benjamin.com, or call +852 2315 9517 for a confidential discussion.