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Quantitative Developer – Risk Technology

An engineering-first role in the risk technology team of a multi-strategy hedge fund. You own the platforms that capture positions and compute and deliver risk, running the models that quant risk analysts build.

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 and run risk calculation and exposure aggregation services
Create real-time limit monitoring, alerting and dashboards
Put VaR, stress and sensitivity models into production code
Build data pipelines for positions, trades and market data with reconciliation
Keep overnight and intraday risk runs reliable and fast

What they ask for

Required

5+ years building production systems
Python plus a systems language such as C++, C#, Java or Rust
Distributed systems, concurrency and API design
SQL and time-series stores such as kdb+/q or ClickHouse
Streaming and messaging such as Kafka or Redis
Containers, Kubernetes and a cloud platform
CI/CD and automated testing

Preferred

Hedge fund or bank experience in risk, valuation or front-office systems
Familiarity with derivatives, VaR, stress testing and margin

Education: BS or MS in computer science, engineering, maths, physics or a related field
Experience: 5+ years building and operating production systems
Languages and tools: Python
C++
C#
Java
Rust
SQL
KDB+/q
Markets: multi-asset

How to prepare

Build a small risk engine that aggregates positions and computes VaR and Greeks
Study VaR, stress testing and sensitivities well enough to spot wrong numbers
Practise building a streaming pipeline with validation and reconciliation
Learn profiling and caching techniques for numerical workloads

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 Jain Global and doesn’t handle applications.