Quant jobs / HSBC

Quantitative Developer – Assistant Vice President

A front-office quant developer role maintaining the quant library used by the fixed income, currencies and commodities desks. You extend the library, its APIs and its test framework.

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.

Add new components and APIs to the quant library
Raise code quality and extend the testing framework
Help IT resolve integration problems
Build systems the desk needs
Deliver with little supervision

What they ask for

Required

6-10 years of C++ development
4-6 years as a quant developer integrating models
Degree in mathematical finance, computer science or maths
Software product development
Git or SVN
Communication and teamwork

Education: Degree in mathematical finance, computer science or mathematics
Experience: 6-10 years of C++ development, including 4-6 years as a quant developer
Languages and tools: C++
Git
Markets: fixed-income, fx, commodities

How to prepare

Write a modern C++ pricing library with a clean public API and unit tests
Practise exposing C++ code to Python and Excel users
Learn how a rates or FX derivative is priced so you can read desk models
Study regression and performance testing for numerical libraries

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 HSBC and doesn’t handle applications.