Quantitative Developer, Graduate at Winton (London, United Kingdom)
Winton· London, United Kingdom·
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About Winton
Winton is a research-based investment management company with a specialist focus on statistical and mathematical inference in financial markets. The firm researches and trades quantitative investment strategies, which are implemented systematically via thousands of securities, spanning the world's major liquid asset classes. Founded in 1997 by David Harding, Winton today manages assets for some of the world’s largest institutional investors.
We employ ambitious professionals who want to work collaboratively at the leading edge of investment management.
We are seeking a talented quantitative developer to join the Investment Management & Research group at Winton. The role sits within our Fundamental Commodities strategy, where you will work closely with the Senior Portfolio Manager. Within our collaborative environment, you will help design and build the systems and tools that underpin the firm's trading and research.
Your focus will initially be on software development: adding functionality required for new trading strategies and maintaining the existing signal pipeline. Over time, you will become more involved in research, eventually running projects independently.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Design, implement and maintain pipelines for the ingestion of new datasets for systematic trading strategies
- Partner with the Portfolio Manager and senior developers to deploy new trading strategies
- Maintain and improve trading infrastructure, data visualisations and data validation in a production environment
What we're looking for:
- 1st class undergraduate degree in Computer Science
- Postgraduate qualifications are preferred but not necessary
- Completed a relevant internship (e.g. software engineering, quantitative development, or a related placement), with strong skills in Python
- Hands-on experience with building and deploying data pipelines, gained through internship, academic, or personal projects
- Familiarity with modern infrastructure (CI/CD, Kafka, Airflow)
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Detail orientated, with a commitment to best engineering practices
- The ability to prioritise, plan and deliver to projects in a timely manner
What would be useful:
- Academic or internship exposure to trading systems for commodity derivatives, ideally within a systematic hedge fund
- Experience of working closely with researchers and portfolio managers
- Basic knowledge of statistical modelling in a financial context
- Exposure to parallel & concurrent processing, e.g. Dask
- Familiarity with containerised cloud development, deployment and management (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS)
Equal Opportunity Workplace
We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics.
Why work at Winton
- Culture: Collaborative, intellectually rigorous, and detail-oriented. The firm values “careful and considered decision-making” and open, supportive learning. Teams work across the stack and with business users directly, removing the need for product managers.
- Work environment: In-person focused office environment designed to maximise collaboration and creativity. Hybrid-cloud tech stack.
- Benefits: Comprehensive benefits programme for employees and families; compensation scheme that rewards excellence; 43% of employees are shareholders.
- Engineering culture: Technology teams are responsible for the core infrastructure of investment strategies. They host regular Tech Talks, sponsor conference attendance, and support upskilling through training and courses. Developers work closely with business users, fostering strong long-term relationships.
- Tenure and stability: Average employee tenure of 8 years, indicating strong retention and a stable, supportive environment winton.com.
- Recruitment process: Transparent and supportive—application, phone interview, technical assessment/case study, video/onsite interviews, then offer. The process is designed to let candidates showcase abilities rather than pass arbitrary tests.