A well-established systematic fund with a growing multi-asset research team is seeking a Principal Quant Software Engineer to lead the design and delivery of the firm's core research and strategy deployment infrastructure. This is a senior individual contributor and technical leadership role — you will set the engineering standards that the research team works within and directly accelerate the fund's ability to deploy new alpha.
The Opportunity:
Research infrastructure quality is often the difference between a fund that can deploy 10 strategies per year and one that deploys 100. You will own the platform that determines which side of that divide the fund sits on. Your impact on P&L is direct and measurable — which is why the compensation is structured accordingly.
Key Responsibilities:
• Lead the design and implementation of the firm's core backtesting, simulation, and portfolio analytics platform
• Own the data engineering stack: ingestion, normalisation, and storage for market, fundamental, and alternative data
• Define and enforce software engineering standards across the research codebase
• Build deployment pipelines for transitioning research strategies from prototype to live production
• Develop APIs, SDKs, and tooling that allow researchers to iterate quickly without sacrificing rigour
• Work with portfolio managers on risk analytics, attribution, and reporting infrastructure
• Evaluate and adopt new technologies to improve research and execution capabilities
• Mentor quant developers and contribute to hiring standards
Required Experience & Qualifications:
• 7+ years of quantitative software engineering experience at a systematic fund, HFT firm, or top-tier bank
• Expert Python and C++ skills; experience with both research and production codebases
• Proven experience designing and building large-scale backtesting or simulation systems
• Strong data engineering background: time-series databases, Parquet, Kafka, distributed storage
• Deep understanding of quantitative research workflows and systematic strategy development
• Strong software architecture skills and ability to lead technical direction
• Cloud infrastructure experience: AWS or GCP preferred
Compensation:
• Senior compensation package reflecting the principal-level scope and direct research impact
• Discretionary bonus with strong link to team and fund performance
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