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About Winton
Winton is a researchbased investment management company with a specialist focus on statistical and mathematical inference in financial markets. The firm researches and trades quantitative investment strategies which are implemented systematically via thousands of securities spanning the worlds major liquid asset classes. Founded in 1997 by David Harding Winton today manages assets for some of the worlds largest institutional investors.
We employ ambitious professionals who want to work collaboratively at the leading edge of investment management.
We seek a highly motivated developer to join Wintons Quant Platform team a group working at the intersection of Data Research Technology and Infrastructure. The team is responsible for delivering and operating a bestinclass quantitative investment platform. In this role youll collaborate directly with Portfolio Managers Researchers and Quantitative Developers to deliver the tools APIs libraries and frameworks that power the research implementation and monitoring of their trading pipelines.
Amazon S3 serves as our primary data storage solution and we make heavy use of Python libraries (e.g. Pandas) for data manipulation. We are increasingly making use of cloudbased solutions to provide ondemand resource scaling to satisfy burstable strategy workloads and as such utilise Docker containerisation for deployment into Kubernetes on AWS. We make use of Kafka for communication across our applications. Our CI/CD workflows run on Jenkins or GitHub Actions with an increasing shift towards the latter.
Responsibilities:
- Contribute to and lead engineering projects to deliver solutions that combine to create a highquality platform for quantitative research and trading.
- The success of these projects will depend on writing and maintaining good quality welltested code across data storage service and delivery/UI layers.
- Own the delivery of these solutions by engaging with strategy teams and other platform users to provide welldocumented and highquality interfaces/APIs that allow them to seamlessly integrate their workflows with the platform.
- Play a part in delivering platform observability by developing and configuring tools that effectively verify strategy and platform behaviours.
- Ensure operational stability of the critical production systems of the quantitative platform with participation in an oncall rota around the clock to ensure smooth running of our global operations.
What we are looking for:
- A Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Mathematics Statistics Physics or equivalent technical field.
- A desire to work in a productionfacing role at the heart of a dynamic datacentric enterprise.
- 3 years Python programming experience in a commercial setting with handson experience with CI/CD workflows.
- A proven interest in quantitative finance and an adaptability and motivation to work on a range of projects across the breadth of Wintons strategy areas.
- A commitment to engineering excellence and practical technology solutions.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
What would be useful:
- Familiarity with containerised cloud development deployment and management (Docker Kubernetes AWS).
- Experience working closely with researchers and portfolio managers in a systematic hedge fund in a production focused role.
Equal Opportunity Workplace
We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We do not discriminate based upon race religion color national origin sex sexual orientation gender identity/expression age status as a protected veteran status as an individual with a disability or any other applicable legally protected characteristics.
Employment Type
Full Time
