Quantitative Developer

Commodities - Systematic Investment

London, UK

Cititec are working with a leading systematic investment firm with their fundamental commodities team who are looking for an experienced and talented quantitative developer. The person will work closely with the Senior Portfolio Manager and collaborate within a quant research environment to design, build, and implement trading systems and tools to support the trading and research capabilities.

Responsibilities:

● Develop reliable and performant trading systems and strategies

● Design and optimise trading infrastructure to provide a seamless path from research to live trading

● Partner with the Portfolio Manager to develop frameworks for data validation and monitoring

What we’re looking for:

● 5+ years of commercial development experience, with strong skills in Python

● Hands-on experience with building and deploying data pipelines

● Strong understanding of time series analysis, statistical methods, and quantitative techniques commonly applied in systematic trading and financial markets

● Experience working in a front-office trading environment, partnering closely with traders, portfolio managers, or researchers within a fast-paced, high-performance setting

● Familiarity with modern infrastructure (CI/CD, Kafka, Airflow)

● Excellent communication and collaboration skills

● Detail orientated, with a commitment to best engineering practices

● The ability to prioritise, plan and deliver projects in a timely manner

What would be useful:

● Experience of developing trading systems for commodity derivatives in a systematic hedge fund

● Experience of working closely with researchers and portfolio managers

● Basic knowledge of statistical modelling in a financial context

● Experience with parallel & concurrent processing, e.g. Dask

● Familiarity with containerised cloud development, deployment and management (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS)