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Quantitative Developer – Credit Risk Platform (Haskell)

A software engineering role in the bank's front-office modelling and analytics group, writing production systems in Haskell and an in-house variant. The team sits between credit risk quants and technology, turning their models into services that run at scale.

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 pre-deal checking services and end-of-day batch jobs for the credit risk platform
Help replace a third-party analytics system with in-house code
Wrap credit risk models written by quants so they can run reliably on large trade volumes
Support a regulatory wind-down reporting software suite
Review code, write documentation and track project work with the team

What they ask for

Required

1+ years as a software developer
Data structures and algorithms
Concurrency and multi-threaded programming
Statically typed functional programming (Haskell preferred)
Clear communication with stakeholders
Git and code review habits

Preferred

Scala or OCaml
C++
Kafka and messaging systems
Distributed and performance-critical systems
Financial markets background

Education: No degree level stated; strong computer science foundation expected
Experience: 1+ years as a software developer
Languages and tools: Haskell
C++
Scala
OCaml
Markets: credit

How to prepare

Learn Haskell through a small project, using type classes, monads and property-based tests
Build a toy service that reads trades, runs a simple credit exposure calculation and writes results in a batch
Study concurrency models and write a multi-threaded or message-driven pipeline with Kafka
Read introductory material on credit risk models (PD, LGD, exposure) so you can talk to quants

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