Senior Python Quant Developer

at UBS
Published January 29, 2023
Location Stamford, CT
Category Default  
Job Type Full-time  

Description

Your role

Are you an experienced python developer? Do you enjoy working as part of an experienced, diverse and collaborative team? Are you excited by the idea of helping us build a new cloud native risk platform? Do you like building large & complex systems?

Advanced Quantitative Cloud Analytics (ACQA) is the strategic risk and analytics platform at UBS. Built entirely on Microsoft Azure and running production workloads for several asset classes, ACQA is an established pillar of our technology strategy with ambitious plans today, with inclusive plans for today and in the years ahead. At its heart ACQA is Python, but we also use other languages including Java and Scala.

Join us

At UBS, we embrace flexible ways of working when the role permits. We offer different working arrangements like part-time, job-sharing and hybrid (office and home) working. Our purpose-led culture and global infrastructure help us connect, collaborate, and work together in agile ways to meet all our business needs.

From gaining new experiences in different roles to acquiring fresh knowledge and skills, we know that great work is never done alone. We know that it's our people, with their unique backgrounds, skills, experience levels and interests, who drive our ongoing success. Together we're more than ourselves. Ready to be part of #teamUBS and make an impact?

Your expertise

* deep experience developing in Python. You're an experienced python developer, you've used it at scale, you have a broad knowledge of the language and many of its commonly used packages. You believe in testing your code to destruction, using several different testing frameworks
* a deep software engineering background that fuels a passion for engineering best in class python systems to price trades, generate and process risk
* a strong understanding of financial derivative products, their risks, and how the front to back flow to process them works. Because our system will eventually price all asset classes, any derivatives background is welcome
* strong communication skills, written and spoken, you enjoy the challenge of communicating complex subjects concisely
* Python engineering experience, building large or complex systems. You're a Pythonista who loves the language and embraces its culture
* some exposure to cloud-based systems (ideally Microsoft Azure) is desirable, a desire to learn more is essential; some exposure to web-based UI frameworks would be useful, though not essential
* a passionate, kind & inclusive engineer. Dedicated to building software that end users love. You enjoy working in a fast-paced agile environment; a dev-ops evangelist. Committed & enthusiastic towards helping to improve the developer experience for everybody working on the ACQA platform and interacting with your code
* a teacher. You enjoy helping those around you develop their skills, while you develop your own; collaborative by nature. You enjoy working in a highly skilled team where the best ideas win. Even if they are not yours. You are equally happy developing something new or building on the work of others
* LI-UBS
* UBS-MOGUL

About us

UBS is the world's largest and only truly global wealth manager. We operate through four business divisions: Global Wealth Management, Personal& Corporate Banking, Asset Management and the Investment Bank. Our global reach and the breadth of our expertise set us apart from our competitors.

With more than 70,000 employees, we have a presence in all major financial centers in more than 50 countries. Do you want to be one of us?