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Quantitative Researcher

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Quantitative Researcher in UK

  • London

Responsibilities

  • Own a primary focus in production quantitative engineering or applied quantitative modelling.
  • Implement quantitative work in Python from research or prototypes through reliable production systems.
  • Validate, backtest, and monitor model and service performance against realized outcomes.
  • Handle deployment, incident response, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
  • Develop shared quantitative libraries, CI/CD pipelines, deployments, monitoring, alerting, and reliability for real-time pricing and risk systems.
  • Contribute to market data pipelines, quantitative infrastructure, backtesting frameworks, risk modelling, customer behaviour modelling, pricing strategy, and product development.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of relevant quantitative or engineering experience and strong Python development skills.
  • A quantitative background in mathematics, physics, engineering, or finance, with the ability to reason about model correctness.
  • Experience taking quantitative work into production and owning its validation, monitoring, and improvement.
  • Clear communication and the ability to collaborate with quants, analysts, traders, product managers, and engineers.
  • Research-track candidates should have strong quantitative research or financial modelling experience, including backtesting and out-of-sample validation.
  • Developer-track candidates should have strong experience with microservices, databases, production infrastructure, testing, monitoring, debugging, streaming systems, real-time data pipelines, or event-driven architectures.
  • Familiarity with FX or financial markets, term structure modelling, stochastic calculus, Monte Carlo methods, interest-rate curve bootstrapping, algorithmic execution, or data lake and warehouse technologies is a bonus.

Benefits

  • Annual compensation is GBP 90500 - GBP 127000.
  • The role is part of Wise’s international, inclusive, and diverse team; no specific work arrangement or contract duration is stated.

Wise

Wise builds a cross-border payments and multi-currency account used by individuals and businesses to send, receive, hold, and spend money in 40+ currencies. Revenue comes from transfer and account fees, card interchange, and enterprise partnerships via Wise Platform, which lets banks and large co...

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