Python Front End Developer for risk and investment applications

• Maintain, improve, and extend the firm's risk and investment applications built in Python (HoloViz Panel ecosystem)
• Design and develop user-facing dashboards, tools, and workflows for risk, operations, investor relations and investment teams.
• Translate business needs into intuitive, performant, and robust applications
• Collaborate closely with risk managers, portfolio managers, and operations to ensure strong adoption and usability
• Contribute to the architecture and evolution of the firm's analytics and visualization stack
• Improve performance and scalability of existing tools (large datasets, real-time workflows)
• Ensure code quality, testing, and maintainability of the platform

Core Technical Skills

• Strong experience in Python development (5+ years preferred)
• Experience building data-driven applications or dashboards
• Familiarity with the HoloViz ecosystem (Panel, Param, Bokeh, HoloViews, hvPlot) strongly preferred
• Solid understanding of data manipulation (pandas / Polars)
• Experience interacting with APIs and databases (SQL)

Frontend & UX Awareness

• Good understanding of UI/UX principles for analytical tools
• Good knowledge of JavaScript / HTML / CSS (for extending Panel applications when needed)
• Ability to design clear, efficient, and user-friendly workflows

Domain Knowledge

• Experience in a risk, trading, or investment environment
• Understanding of financial instruments and analytics, ideally including for derivatives across asset classes (rates, FX, equities, volatility, credit)
• Familiarity with time series data and financial analytics, * Master's degree in IT, Applied Mathematics, Physics, Financial Mathematics or a related quantitative field.
• Strong problem-solving mindset and attention to details
• Friendly, reliable, proactive and collaborative team player
• Good communication skills; fluent in English (written and spoken).
• Already eligible to work in Switzerland.

ADAPT is a specialized USD 2bn hedge fund operating across multiple asset classes. To support our continued growth and strengthen our risk, operations, and investment technology platforms, we are looking for an experienced Python Front-End Developer. Reporting directly to the CRO, this role sits at the intersection of risk, investment, and technology, with daily collaboration alongside portfolio managers, risk, and operations teams. You will play a key role in shaping and improving our internal analytical tools and user-facing applications. This position is 100% onsite