##### Job Description :
The application development team creates the systems that deliver the service
to Quantile’s clients. The team’s responsibility is to design and build
systems that permit financial market participants to securely provide risk and
trade data to Quantile, to deliver that data into the quantitative algorithms
developed by the strats, and to return the output of those libraries safely
back to the participants in a timely manner. In addition, the systems provides
analytics and feedback to the clients to help them to understand the results
as well as how they can modify their parameters and data to gain improvements
in the future. The backend is written in python and makes use of several AWS
services, whereas the front end is python. We also have smaller amounts
,python scala. We are looking for a backend python developer, but there will
be opportunities to work on the front end web porrtals. Data is stored in
combination of RDS (postgres), Redshift and S3.
##### **Examples of recent projects include:**
* Addition of new services for optimisation of counterparty risk to client portal
* Addition of client analytics to portal to understand historical changes in SIMM
* Automation of pricing and risk checks of client data
* Tools for publishing marketing materials and news to clients on portal
* Optimisation of post-optimisation reporting to improve completion time of compression services
##### **Responsibilities:**
* Working both individually and as part of a larger team to deliver high quality software solutions
* Building APIs for scenario generation calling into quant libraries
* Building unit tests and promoting continuous improvement throughout every stage of development
* Ongoing maintenance and support of components
* Ongoing evaluation and improvement of component effectiveness
* Validation of client data
* Automation of processed where necessary and appropriate
* Generation of formatted reports and files to be sent to clients and 3rd party APIs
* Improving and adding to component documentation
##### **Essential:**
* 2 to 4 years professional experience as a Python Developer, working on data intensive numerical applications (E.g. Using Numpy, Pandas)
* Experience with the all stages of the software development lifecycle from product design, technical design, coding, testing, documentation, release into production and ongoing maintenance
* Strong understanding of "good design" (eg SOLID design principles) pythonic code style and different design paradigms (eg OO, Functional, Imperative)
* Experience working with AWS python SDK
* Experience with relational database design and implementation in postgres
* Excellent problem-solving and communication skills. We work in partnership with product team to collaboratively design and improve functionality
* Familiarity with the unix command line
* Familiarity with Git or similar source control solution
##### **Desirable**
* Understanding of financial derivatives including the role of clearing houses, differences between OTC & listed derivatives, margin, capital
* Quantitative/data analysis backgroun
