
Front Office Python Risk Developer – Hedge Fund
at Durlston Partners
Posted 21 hours ago
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- Compensation
- Up to £300,000 GBP
- City
- London
- Country
- United Kingdom
Currency: £ (GBP)
Senior front-office engineer role building technical risk solutions and applications to support Portfolio Managers and the Risk function at a London macro hedge fund. You will own end-to-end development of trading, risk and analytical tools and contribute to a distributed cross-asset risk management platform. Requires 5+ years in a hedge fund, bank or trading firm technology function, strong Python expertise, risk tooling experience, and excellent communication skills; hybrid working and competitive compensation up to £300k+ TC with 10% pension.
Front Office – Python Risk Developer – Macro Hedge Fund – London – Up to £300k+ TC
One of London’s most sought-after hedge funds, founded by a top-performing Portfolio Manager from a leading multi-manager platform, is expanding its Front Office Technology team. They are seeking an engineer to develop advanced technical risk solutions and applications supporting both the Portfolio Managers and the Risk Management function.
You would take ownership of the end-to-end development of trading, risk, and analytical tools tailored to PMs’ needs, as well as contribute to the build-out of their highly distributed cross-asset Risk Management platform.
Requirements
- 5+ years experience within a Hedge Fund, Investment Bank or Trading firm’s technology function.
- Strong proficiency with Python, including the most recent releases/tooling and supporting libraries
- Demonstrated experience architecting and building risk tooling and risk management systems.
- Strong Communication skills, combined with strong fundamental software engineering principals.
Why would this interest you?
- Very high impact role in a scaling Macro Fund with an excellent track record.
- Hybrid working structure: 3 days in, 2 remote
- Very competitive compensation with 10% Pension
- The team is very collaborative and supportive with many of them working for the very best Hedge Funds and Trading firms




