Quant jobs / Balyasny Asset Management

Senior Quantitative Developer, Commodities

This developer builds research software for commodity desks. Work centres on the curve platform and backtesting systems used by portfolio managers, traders and researchers.

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.

Extend commodity curve and simulation tools
Translate desk requirements into tested Python software
Own delivery from design through production support
Improve technical standards across the shared platform

What they ask for

Required

Five or more years developing financial software
Strong Python
Production-software ownership
Business-user collaboration
Requirements prioritisation
Technical communication

Preferred

Quantitative applications
Databases
Trading infrastructure
Commodity curves
LLM-assisted development

Education: Strong engineering or quantitative qualifications; degree level is not stated.
Experience: At least five years of financial software development.
Languages and tools: Python
Markets: commodities

How to prepare

Build a commodity curve research tool with tested data handling
Demonstrate a backtest service and explain its failure controls
Describe how to prioritise competing trader requests

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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with Balyasny Asset Management and doesn’t handle applications.