Role overview



We are looking for a Senior Quantitative Developer/Engineer to help build and enhance our commodities research and trading technology. The role will focus on backtesting infrastructure and our commodities curve platform, working closely with portfolio managers, traders, researchers, and technology colleagues across several financial centres.



This is a hands-on development role for someone who combines strong Python skills with a product and delivery mindset. You will help turn user needs into reliable, production-quality tools and deliver them to market-facing trading teams. High ownership and a proactive attitude to work and development within the role is a must.




Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain backtesting infrastructure and the commodities curve platform.

• Work closely with portfolio managers, traders, and other front-office users to understand requirements and deliver practical solutions.

• Take end-to-end ownership of projects from scoping and design through implementation, testing, deployment, and ongoing support.

• Contribute to development standards and technical direction across the platform.

• Support production systems and help resolve issues affecting research or live trading workflows.




Required Experience

• Top quality qualifications in an engineering or highly quantitative field.

• Significant experience (8+ years) in quantitative/data engineering roles, ideally with exposure to backtesting frameworks, strategy research tooling, or commodities markets

• Strong Python; comfortable working across data pipelines, APIs, and quant-research-facing tooling

• Experience with time-series/analytical data stores and large-scale data pipelines

• Proven ability to operate with high autonomy - able to own a platform's direction without heavy supervision

• Strong cross-timezone stakeholder management - demonstrated experience working directly with both UK and US-based quant/business stakeholders

• A product mindset: able to define the problems to be solved, gather requirements, sequence development and deliver robust, usable solutions.




Preferred Experience

• Experience with databases and data-intensive applications.

• Experience building or supporting trading-critical infrastructure.

• Knowledge of commodities markets (power, gas, oil, coal, LNG).

• Experience supporting trading teams.

• Experience with advanced techniques applying LLMs to software development.