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Forward Deployed Engineer – Fixed Income and Macro Technology

The fixed-income and macro engineer builds desk tools and integrates quantitative analytics. Work connects pricing, risk and backtesting libraries to applications used by portfolio managers.

What you’d work on

Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.

Expose quant analytics through reusable libraries and APIs
Build trading tools for macro investment teams
Integrate rates and FX models into desk workflows
Turn user requests into maintainable applications

What they ask for

Required

Two or more years of commercial development
Rates and FX pricing familiarity
Financial-instrument knowledge
User-facing delivery
Time management

Preferred

Python
Trading-floor development

Education: Background in computing, engineering, data science or another STEM area; degree level is unspecified.
Experience: 2+ years of professional development; Python and trading-floor experience are preferred.
Languages and tools: Python
Markets: fixed-income, fx, options, futures

How to prepare

Build an API around a rates or FX pricing calculation
Explain how a trading tool integrates pricing and risk
Demonstrate a small application developed from trader requirements

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