Python Quantitative Developer

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For our client we are currently looking for candidates for the position of:

Python Quantitative Developer

Work model: hybrid, 3 days/week at the office

Location: Kraków

Job type: B2B (with Hays Poland)

Rate: 1075-1323 PLN net/day (around 134 – 165 PLN/h)

Your role:

Are you an expert in software engineering? Are you an innovative thinker who likes to challenge the status quo? Do you know how to work well within a team and deliver effective solutions? We're looking for someone like that to carry out independent projects related to Scenario Design and Expansion, by

• developing and maintaining a proprietary application code
• building and maintaining a suite of functionalities to address client needs
• deploying code changes into release ready production state, in line with a set of deployment guidelines
• interacting and collaborating with stakeholders: quant developers, quant researchers, business users of the library, model governance representatives and management.

Your team:

You will working in the Scenarios and Scenario Models team with members in the US, UK, Switzerland, Poland, and India. Our role is to develop and maintain methodologies that are used to design and expand economic scenarios. Our forecasts are used to assess the impact of macroeconomic and market-shock scenarios on the firm’s profitability and capital adequacy. Our deliveries are key to regulators across the globe, used for accounting standards, and internal capital assessments. The framework captures all risk types across all businesses world-wide.

Your experience and skills:

• a MSc degree in computer science, mathematics, physics or numerical discipline, PhD is a plus
• expertise in the full SDLC for software written with Python
• 2+ years of experience in Python and Statistics
• 2+ years of experience in Gitlab, Confluence, JIRA
• exposure to statistical modelling
• excellent analytical skills to perform complex technical and functional analysis
• knowledge of financial markets and products, strong interest in the financial services industry, preferably in risk management is a plus

You are:

• an expert at translating business and technical requirements into well-engineered business applications based on object-oriented design
• able to explain technical concepts in simple, intuitive terms to facilitate collaboration
• willing to create your own brand in the group and company wide
• fluent in English, additional languages are welcome