Platinum & Partners is retained by a top-tier global hedge fund to identify a Quantitative Developer for a small, collaborative and entrepreneurial systematic macro team based in Paris. You will join in building the trading and research infrastructure that underpins a dynamic, fast-paced quantitative investment process — with direct exposure to a live trading environment and real opportunities for career growth.
Notably, this role carries the genuine potential to evolve into a research position over time for the right candidate. The firm wants someone who can start as soon as possible.
THE ROLE
- Design, code and maintain the team's infrastructure in Python, using in-house tools alongside Git, Airflow, Jenkins and Podman
- Own the data ETL and data gathering process end-to-end
- Improve the performance and reliability of the team's research infrastructure
- Perform data analysis and generate live and historical analytical reports
- Stay current on state-of-the-art technologies, technical libraries and computing environments
- Collaborate with the Senior Portfolio Manager and trading group in a transparent environment with direct exposure to live trading
WHAT THEY ARE LOOKING FOR
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering
- 2+ years of professional Python programming experience
- 2–3+ years of developer experience at a bank or quantitative hedge fund — candidates from both buy-side and sell-side are welcome
- Strong familiarity with Linux: shell and command line tools
- Experience building quantitative tools for research environments
- Excellent communication, analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills
WHY THIS ROLE
- A top-tier global hedge fund with the infrastructure, data and intellectual ambition to support serious quantitative work
- Small, entrepreneurial team — direct access to the Senior Portfolio Manager, real ownership of the infrastructure you build
- Genuine growth path: the role has explicit potential to evolve into a quantitative research position for the right candidate
- Paris base — a growing hub for systematic and quantitative investment talent, and an exceptional place to build a career
- Dynamic, fast-paced environment with direct exposure to live systematic macro trading