Junior Quantitative Developer

Junior Quantitative Developer - Rates / Equities

£400-500pd Inside IR35

12 month project

3 days on site

emagine is a high-end professional services consultancy and solutions firm specialising in providing business and technology services to the financial services sector. We power progress, solve challenges, and deliver real results through tailored high-end consulting services and solutions.

We have created a culture of openness and integrity by building genuine and strong relationships and partnerships, enabling us to be uncompromising in our dedication to delivering the optimal service for our clients. Our commitment is not just towards our clients — we aim to foster a positive and equitable working environment with our consultants and colleagues, which stems from our core values: Confident, Dedicated, Responsible, Genuine.

We are seeking a Junior Quantitative Developer to support a Senior Quant Developer on a high-impact analytics modernisation initiative. This role offers hands-on exposure to real production systems, proprietary analytics libraries, and hedge fund-grade quantitative models.

You will work closely with senior stakeholders to help re-engineer legacy spreadsheet-based analytics into robust, tested, and scalable Python components, gaining valuable experience in a front-office quantitative environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Implement Python-based analytics under the guidance of a Senior Quant Developer

• Translate defined spreadsheet logic into clean, maintainable, and well-tested code

• Work within Coremont’s proprietary analytics framework and libraries

• Support testing, validation, and automation of analytics components

• Build domain knowledge across hedge fund analytics and financial products

Key Requirements

• Strong Python development skills

• Graduate or early-career background in a quantitative discipline (e.g. maths, physics, engineering, finance)

• Specialisation or strong interest in equities or rates

• Basic understanding of financial models and relational/SQL-style data concepts

Nice to Have

• Exposure to analytical or quantitative frameworks

• Familiarity with hedge fund or asset-management operations

Additional Information

• 12-month project with imminent funding approval

• Focused on re-engineering legacy spreadsheets into production-grade Python components

• Close collaboration with senior quantitative and engineering stakeholders

• Excellent opportunity to gain hands-on experience in a real-world quantitative environment

Our People

The ideal consultants will share our values and be aligned with our ways of working. As your career progresses, you can expect to work across all areas of the project lifecycle, from strategy to implementation. This will provide you with a broad base of experience from which to build an outstanding career.

The ideal consultants will share our values and be aligned with our ways of working and as your career progresses, you can expect to work across all areas of the project lifecycle.

We pride ourselves on;

• Providing our people with a supportive culture, rooted in our values and driven by our purpose.

• Promoting a culture of inclusion, collaboration, well-being, and learning and development.

• Providing increased agility and flexibility within our hybrid working model

• Investing in employees’ growth through ongoing training and development

• Autonomy to take ownership of projects, making decisions and demonstrating individual expertise

• Providing an transparent performance and career management experience.

Our consultants are integral to delivering successful consulting engagements, addressing our clients’ most pressing business challenges, and build lasting value in disciplines such as:

• Solve sophisticated, ambiguous business, change and technology problems, bringing structure and meticulous analysis and planning, acting, and taking decisions with little strategic direction

• Build, develop and sustain trusted senior client relationships in the C-suite by remaining highly attuned to client needs

• Drive, enable and support the business, partnering with our leaders, clients, and consultants across our practices to take the best of emagine to our clients through opportunity identification/qualification, solution development/presentation

Interested?

At emagine, we are committed to building an international and diverse team by embracing our different backgrounds.

If you are up to the challenge and would like to find out more, get in touch with us immediately, our internal recruitment team is always keen to hear from dynamic individuals that are looking to further their career and explore their full potential. 

“emagine is an equal opportunity employer, and employment practices are based strictly on merit. It is the policy of the Company to give equal opportunity in employment regardless of sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, age, disability, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, religion or ethnic origin”