Quant jobs / Caxton Associates

Quantitative Developer

Caxton’s quantitative development team builds investment tools for portfolio managers. This role develops analytics libraries, market-data services and research interfaces.

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.

Build quantitative Python libraries.
Develop market and risk dashboards.
Engineer investment-data pipelines.

What they ask for

Required

Python
SQL
Software design
Web development
Quantitative reasoning

Preferred

AWS
Financial-instrument knowledge

Education: Relevant quantitative bachelor’s degree required.
Experience: At least 7 relevant years in financial services.
Languages and tools: Python
SQL
C#
Java
C++

How to prepare

Build a tested analytics library.
Design a market-data API.
Reconcile a risk dashboard.

What to study

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