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Quantitative Developer

A developer role in Engineers Gate's London Portfolio Management group, building and scaling central infrastructure. It covers live trading systems and the research platform.

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.

Maintain and monitor live trading infrastructure
Extend the research platform and analytics tools
Work with researchers to move new strategies into production
Refactor existing systems and start new infrastructure projects

What they ask for

Required

Degree in computer science or a related STEM subject
Production software engineering experience
Algorithms, architecture and design patterns
One modern language such as Python, C++ or Java
Numerical reasoning

Preferred

Python or MATLAB for scientific computing
AI agents in daily workflow
ML and quant research workflows
AWS or other cloud

Education: Undergraduate degree in computer science or a related STEM discipline
Experience: Production-level software engineering in a technology-driven environment
Languages and tools: Python
C++
Java
MATLAB

How to prepare

Build a small service in Python or C++ with tests, logging and monitoring
Study design patterns and practise architecture questions
Write a simple backtest or analytics library and package it well
Learn the basics of AWS and deploying a data job
Practise numerical programming with NumPy

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 Engineers Gate and doesn’t handle applications.