Quantitative Developer – Market Risk & Financial Engineering
Westbury Partners Shanghai, ChineQuantitative Developer – Market Risk & Financial Engineering
Drive innovative market risk technology by combining Python development, quantitative research, financial modelling, scalable data workflows, and financial markets expertise to strengthen risk measurement and decision-making.
What You'll Do:
Join a highly collaborative quantitative technology environment where software engineering and quantitative research come together to solve complex market risk challenges across diverse trading businesses, products, and asset classes.
You will:
- Develop robust Python-based solutions for market risk monitoring, measurement, management, and hedging.
- Build and enhance financial instrument models and quantitative risk methodologies.
- Work with large-scale daily and intraday datasets to uncover insights and improve decision-making.
- Design scalable data, computation, visualisation, and workflow solutions.
- Conduct empirical research and translate quantitative methods into practical software applications.
- Collaborate closely with researchers, developers, traders, and risk professionals.
- Continuously improve engineering practices through agile development and CI/CD.
- Learn new financial concepts, technologies, and methodologies rapidly to address evolving business requirements.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Developing production-quality quantitative software using Python and tools such as Pandas, Polars, NumPy, and SciPy.
- Supporting market risk analytics across multiple financial instruments, markets, and asset classes.
- Transforming complex datasets into reliable, actionable risk information.
- Building maintainable systems capable of operating efficiently at scale.
- Applying quantitative and statistical techniques to real-world financial problems.
- Contributing to instrument modelling, risk measurement, empirical analysis, and hedging capabilities.
- Working within distributed Linux environments and collaborating on modern software development practices.
- Challenging existing approaches constructively and identifying opportunities for continuous improvement.
- Taking ownership of projects from initial concept through development, deployment, and ongoing enhancement.
Why Join Us:
This is an opportunity to work at the intersection ofquantitative finance, software engineering, data science, and market risk . You will tackle intellectually demanding problems while developing technology that directly influences financial decision-making.
The role offers significant exposure to financial markets, sophisticated quantitative methodologies, large-scale data, and high-performance technology. It is particularly suited to someone who enjoys learning, solving unfamiliar problems, and turning complex ideas into practical, scalable solutions.
About You:
You bring5+ years of relevant technical experience , strong Python programming capabilities, and a solid understanding of financial markets.
Ideally, you have:
- A CFA Charter or equivalent foundational knowledge of financial markets.
- A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Financial Engineering, Finance, Statistics, or a related discipline.
- Direct experience working with at least one financial asset class.
- Practical experience handling data at scale, including daily or intraday datasets.
- Experience with CI/CD frameworks and agile software development.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- A self-directed approach with genuine ownership and accountability.
- Curiosity and enthusiasm for learning substantial new concepts independently.
- Familiarity with C++ and columnar databases or data technologies is advantageous.
- Experience with financial instrument modelling or empirical research is highly desirable.
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