Quantitative Developer Commodities - Hedge Fund
About the Role
Our client, a leading Hedge Fund, is seeking a Quantitative Developer to join their growing energy trading technology team. This role sits close to front-office users and focuses on building and enhancing platforms that support pricing, valuation, risk management, trade lifecycle, and position management for commodity and energy derivatives.
- Design, build, and maintain platforms supporting commodity and energy derivatives trading.
- Develop pricing, valuation, and risk management infrastructure used by front-office stakeholders.
- Enhance trade capture, booking, and lifecycle management workflows for OTC products.
- Partner closely with traders, quants, and risk teams to support complex discretionary trading strategies.
- Improve scalability, reliability, and performance of trading and risk systems.
Required Skills & Experience
- 3+ years of experience in quantitative development, platform engineering, or trading technology.
- Hands-on software engineering experience in trading, risk, valuation, or position management systems.
- Experience building or supporting:
- Energy or commodity derivatives pricing systems, or
- Risk and valuation platforms, or
- OTC trade capture, booking, or ETRM platforms.
Nice to Have
- Experience in power or energy markets, particularly European or German power markets.
- Exposure to renewable energy trading or related infrastructure.
- Background working at leading financial institutions or investment banks.
Working Environment
- Based in Hamburg with a strong onsite presence alongside traders and analysts.
- Highly collaborative, desk-focused role with direct exposure to trading activity.
- Opportunity to help establish and shape a new engineering capability within the region.
Why Join
- Play a key role in integrating and scaling a specialist energy trading platform within a global hedge fund.
- Work directly with front-office teams on high-impact trading systems.
- Join a lean, newly formed team with significant ownership and influence.
- Tackle complex challenges across energy markets, derivatives, and system integration.
- Be part of a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment with strong growth ambitions.
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