Senior Quantitative Developer

Remote contract

Hands-on senior developer responsible for rebuilding the Python-based quantitative modelling component of the asset management web application. Specifically responsible to develop and implement analytical tools for active equity portfolio construction, factor analytics, risk modeling, and algorithmic execution workflows to enable market sensitivity reports and pricing tools used for trade decision-making, and the development of current trading strategies.

Key Responsibilities

- Design, build, and unit-test the Python quantitative modelling (“Quant”) component of an Asset Management web application, migrating existing functionality to the target-state platform.

- Translate quantitative model logic and calculation requirements into production-grade, testable Python code.

- Perform peer code reviews on web application components developed by the offshore team, providing specific, code-level feedback to improve correctness, readability, performance, and maintainability. Quality gates and the review process itself are run by a separate onshore lead; this role supplies the technical review.

- Diagnose and fix defects raised during SIT and UAT within agreed turnaround times.

- Produce technical documentation for the quantitative component sufficient for downstream support and knowledge transfer.

- Work with the architecture and business analysis teams to clarify requirements and confirm design decisions affecting the quantitative component.

Required Skills & Expertise

- Python development:



8+ years of software development experience, with deep, current, hands-on Python. This is a coding role, not an oversight role.

- Quantitative modelling: Demonstrated experience developing quantitative models or analytics (preferable in asset management space) and calculation engines — pricing, risk, optimization and attribution

- Web application engineering: Experience building and integrating server-side components for web applications, including REST APIs, service integration, and authentication-aware endpoints.

- Breadth across the stack: Working familiarity with the broader GAM web application stack (Python services, modern JavaScript front end, containerized deployment on AWS, relational and cloud data access)

- Code review: Strong review skills, able to give clear, constructive, code-level suggestions and identify design, security, and maintainability issues.

- Engineering practices: Git-based workflows, automated testing, and CI/CD pipelines.

- Domain: Asset management or capital markets experience — able to understand the business meaning of the models being built, not just the code.

- Defect remediation: Experience resolving SIT and UAT defects in a structured, gated delivery environment.

Nice to have

- Experience with Snowflake or comparable cloud data platforms.

- Prior work on a platform migration or application rebuild in a regulated financial services environment.

- Exposure to model governance or model validation processes.

📌 Senior Quantitative Developer (Canada)
🏢 Quality IT Resourcing
📍 Canada