Core Quant

About the Role: Nigel Wright have been appointed to support Neptune North with multiple hires into their Newcastle office.  Neptune North are a Joint Venture between Oliver Wyman and Rokos Capital Management specialising in providing premium technology consulting services.Neptune North pride themselves on employing and developing the very best talent in the North East. As such, if you are keen on a fast paced and dynamic environment, offering a prestigious work experience and career development this role could be for you. Key Responsibilities:
  • Working with stakeholders to understand business needs and opportunities and how we can best meet them in the short, medium and long term
  • Designing, building and maintaining solutions, principally in C# (and where applicable SQL, TypeScript, Python, C++ and PowerShell), to the highest design, testing and operational standards
  • Reviewing the development work of colleagues in Core Quants and other teams
  • Investigating day-to-day quantitative issues; answering business questions on the results and state of the existing system
  • Understanding and measuring the performance characteristics, design and operational parameters of our systems, improving where necessary
Job Requirements:
  • A minimum 2.1 in a numerate degree from a Russell Group University and excellent A Level grades (or equivalent international secondary / tertiary education)
  • Excellent software engineering skills; experience designing and implementing APIs, strong understanding of object-oriented and functional design patterns, distributed system design, concurrent and asynchronous programming
  • Expertise in C# and .NET or the ambition and aptitude to become an expert quickly, as evidenced by your experience with a similar language / platform
  • A strong desire to build software that is robust, supportable and automatically tested; an understanding of how to design software for testability and of complementary testing approaches (unit, functional, integration, regression, smoke, etc.)
Interview Process
  1. Coding Challenge – We would like to get a better sense of your programming potential. You will be sent some questions hosted by Codility to be completed at a time that suits you.
  2. Assessments - You will complete a speed-driven Aptitude assessment and Maths test.
  3. Management Interviews – You will meet with members of our Technology Management Team. These will be a combination of technical questions and an assessment of team and cultural fit.
  4. Team Interview – You will meet 1-2 other team members.
Company
Nigel Wright Group
Location
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£0 per annum
Posted
Company
Nigel Wright Group
Location
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£0 per annum
Posted