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# Software Engineer

- **Company:** Paragon Alpha
- **Location:** Greater London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Big Data, C Sharp (Programming Language), Databases, Distributed Computing Environment, Python (Programming Language), Standard Sql, Software Deployment, Software Engineering, Docker
- **Published:** August 26, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2815169676-software-engineer

## About the Role

* 7+ years' software engineering experience within financial services
 * Strong Python and/or C# development experience
 * Experience building scalable, production-grade applications
 * Strong SQL and database knowledge
 * Experience working with large datasets and distributed data processing
 * Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to work independently
 * Fixed income products or asset management
 * AWS, Docker and Kubernetes
 * Risk analytics or quantitative research environments

## Description

We're partnering with a leading global multi-manager hedge fund to hire a RiskTech Engineer to help build the next generation of its front-office risk platform.

Working directly with Portfolio Managers, Quantitative Researchers and Risk Managers, you'll design and develop high-performance applications that transform quantitative research into scalable production systems used across the investment process.

This is an opportunity to work on business-critical technology in a fast-paced environment, gaining exposure to complex financial products, quantitative research and cloud-native architecture.

What You'll Do

 * Design, build and maintain scalable Python-based risk applications
 * Develop services and interfaces that deliver risk analytics to front-office users
 * Build and optimise large-scale data processing pipelines
 * Deploy and support cloud-native applications and infrastructure
 * Work closely with Risk, Quant Research and Portfolio Management teams to deliver new functionality
 * Drive projects from initial design through to production deployment

What We're Looking For

 * 7+ years' software engineering experience within financial services
 * Strong Python and/or C# development experience
 * Experience building scalable, production-grade applications
 * Strong SQL and database knowledge
 * Experience working with large datasets and distributed data processing
 * Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to work independently
 * Fixed income products or asset management
 * AWS, Docker and Kubernetes
 * Risk analytics or quantitative research environments


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