Quant jobs / Westbury Partners

Senior Python Software Engineer – Quantitative Trading & Research

Westbury Partners advertises an engineering role for an unnamed trading client. It builds Python platforms used for systematic research, backtesting and production strategies.

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.

Turn research prototypes into services.
Build distributed analytical tools.
Improve testing, deployment and runtime performance.

What they ask for

Required

Python
Numerical computing
Automated testing
CI/CD
Containers
Distributed computing

Education: No degree requirement stated.
Experience: At least five years in software engineering.
Languages and tools: Python
pandas
NumPy
SciPy
Celery
Dask
Spark
Docker
Kubernetes
Linux

How to prepare

Scale a backtest across workers.
Package a numerical library with tests.
Profile data-processing bottlenecks.

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 Westbury Partners and doesn’t handle applications.