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Quantitative Developer/Researcher – Graduate

A graduate role in Winton's Fundamental Commodities team, starting with software and moving toward research. It supports the portfolio manager's systematic 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.

Build pipelines that ingest new datasets for trading strategies
Help deploy new strategies with senior developers
Maintain trading infrastructure, visualisations and data checks in production
Grow towards running small research projects

What they ask for

Required

First-class degree in computer science
Relevant internship or placement
Strong Python
Data pipeline experience (work, academic or personal)
CI/CD, Kafka and Airflow familiarity
Attention to engineering quality

Preferred

Exposure to commodity derivatives trading systems
Working with researchers
Basic financial statistical modelling
Dask or similar
Containers and cloud

Education: First-class computer science degree; postgraduate preferred but not required
Experience: New graduate with a relevant internship
Languages and tools: Python
Kafka
Airflow
Docker
Kubernetes
AWS
Markets: commodities, futures

How to prepare

Build a personal data pipeline project and deploy it
Learn how commodity futures are traded
Practise reading and writing tests for data validation
Get comfortable with Kafka and Airflow basics

What to study

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