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Senior Software Engineer – Quant Research Framework

An engineering role maintaining the framework that quantitative researchers use for research, testing and production. You work day to day with researchers and support their code in production.

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.

Develop and maintain framework components, APIs, tools and documentation
Convert researcher feedback into framework improvements
Handle environment setup, dependencies and releases for production strategies
Investigate production issues with infrastructure teams
Monitor and tune the performance of framework use in production

What they ask for

Required

Strong software engineering, ideally Python and C++
Experience building frameworks, libraries or tooling
Linux, debugging and testing
CI/CD and deployment practice
Performance analysis
Working directly with quant researchers

Preferred

Quant finance, trading or research platform experience
Familiarity with backtesting, simulation or distributed computing

Education: No education requirement stated
Experience: Experienced software engineer; years not stated
Languages and tools: Python
C++

How to prepare

Build a small backtesting framework with a clean API and tests
Learn packaging, dependency pinning and release automation in Python
Profile a mixed Python/C++ workload and fix a bottleneck
Study how researchers structure experiments so your tooling fits them

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 Qube Research & Technologies and doesn’t handle applications.