Quantitative Investment Analyst

Purpose Unlimited is an independent financial services company with an unrelenting focus on customer-centric innovation delivered through technology-driven solutions. Led by entrepreneur Som Seif the company is developing a diversified product platform aimed at addressing historically underserved segments of the market. Purpose Unlimiteds businesses include Purpose Investments Advisor Solutions by Purpose and is Purpose InvestmentsPurpose Investments is an innovation- driven asset management company with over $20 billion under management offering both managed and quantitative investment products. Much of what is available to the average Canadian investor today is outdated and expensive. Purpose Investments goal is to constantly innovate and make investing simple intuitive and affordable for Status: This is for a current : $105000 - $117000Job DescriptionWho you arePurpose Investments runs a live systematic trading book across equities and derivatives and were looking for the person who will own the technical foundation that keeps it running and growing. This is a front-office quant role sitting within the investment team alongside the portfolio manager with direct exposure to live capital work directly with the Portfolio Manager Systematic Investing embedded in the investment function not a shared services tech team. We invest heavily in the people who join us. Youll have real ownership direct exposure to live trading decisions and the autonomy to build things the right way. Youll be the technical owner of our systematic trading stack: the security master market data infrastructure strategy deployment pipelines and the cloud environment that ties it all together. The work is hands-on and consequential what you build runs in production and directly supports how we youve ever built something that touches real markets a personal algo a data pipeline a trading bot and you want to do that at scale with real capital behind it this is the : What you will do Security Master & Reference Data Design build and maintain the authoritative source of truth for instruments contracts and reference data that all strategies depend on Market Data Infrastructure Own ingestion normalization and storage of high-frequency market data across futures and derivatives; build and operate overnight signal calculation pipelines that process large datasets reliably; ensure data integrity and low-latency access at every layer Trading Systems & Execution Layer Build and maintain the systematic trading infrastructure used in live strategy deployment including order management and position tracking components Cloud Infrastructure Design and maintain secure scalable infrastructure using modern DevOps practices (Terraform container orchestration CI/CD automation); own reliability and performance of the systematic trading environment Strategy Implementation Support Translate quantitative research into production-ready testable code in close partnership with the portfolio manager AI-Powered Tooling Leverage modern AI tools and LLMs to accelerate development automate workflows and build internal analytics capabilities fasterQualifications: What you will bring Education: Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science Engineering or a quantitative field Python: Strong production-quality Python you write code that runs unattended at 4am and youre okay with that Batch & Signal Infrastructure: Experience building overnight batch jobs or scheduled pipelines that compute signals features or analytics at scale you understand how to make these reliable observable and fast Cloud-Native & DevOps: Fluent in modern infrastructure Terraform containerization IaC CI/CD pipelines. You understand how to build and operate secure scalable systems in the cloud not just deploy to one Data Engineering: Experience building and owning data pipelines schemas and reference data systems; comfortable working with large datasets and writing vectorized code (NumPy pandas) for performance-critical batch processing; familiarity with timeseries databases (e.g. TimescaleDB InfluxDB) is a strong plus Markets Curiosity: You dont need a CFA but you need to care about markets you understand what a futures roll is youve traded your own account or youve built something market-related just because you wanted to AI-First Mindset: You use LLMs and AI tools as a core part of how you build not as an occasional shortcut Event-Driven Systems: Hands-on experience building event-driven or asynchronous systems in Python (asyncio message queues or similar) trading infrastructure runs on events and youre comfortable thinking that way Systems Thinking: You think about failure modes data integrity and operational stability not just whether the code runs todayNice to Have Experience with derivatives futures or structured products data Familiarity with backtesting frameworks or systematic strategy workflows Exposure to financial data vendors (Bloomberg Refinitiv broker APIs) Experience working in or alongside an investment teamAdditional InformationWhy should you join us We are one of Canadas Top Small & Medium Employers 2023 & 2024. We believe in innovation and a vibrant culture - work for an innovative people-first financial services firm that values entrepreneurialism. We believe in a flexible work structure A flexible hybrid work model that empowers you to do your best work whether at home or the office. We care about your rewards - Competitive compensation including equity program. We care about your health comprehensive group health and dental benefits and life insurance at little to no cost to you. We also offer a Lifestyle Spending Account for all your wellness needs. We care about your quality of life - flexible paid time-off policy with unlimited vacation days and flexible sick and mental health days. We care about your family - Paid parental leave for eligible employees with a top-up. We care about your future Generous Group RRSP matching and an optional TFSA program. We care about your development We offer training opportunities and tuition support Investments is an equal employer and we are dedicated to fostering an inclusive and barrier-free work environment for all employees and candidates. We encourage all qualified candidates to apply and if accommodation is required during any stage of the recruitment process please contact any member of the People and Culture team at We thank all applicants for their interest; however only those selected for interviews will be work philosophy is a hybrid model allowing for flexibility and must be legally entitled to work in Canada. Immigration sponsorship is not offered for this may use artificial intelligence technology to assist in screening assessing or selecting applicants for this position. Final hiring decisions are made by qualified human reviewers.