Equity Derivatives Risk Developer (Python)

Location: London, United Kingdom

Base salary: £150,000–£170,000, plus discretionary bonus and comprehensive benefits.

Company

hirify.global is a global hedge fund operating across multiple regions, asset classes, and markets.

What you will do

• Design, build, and own risk calculation, exposure aggregation, and real-time monitoring services for options, futures, swaps, and cash equities.
• Develop APIs, streaming services, dashboards, limit frameworks, breach detection, alerting, and drill-down tooling for risk managers and portfolio managers.
• Build resilient pipelines and analytical data stores for positions, trades, market data, historical risk, stress replays, and time-travel queries.
• Productionize quantitative risk models and maintain pricing, valuation, and sensitivity infrastructure with numerical validation.
• Improve reliability and performance through profiling, caching, concurrency, vectorization, distributed compute, automated recovery, and operational monitoring.
• Set engineering standards, lead architectural decisions, mentor junior developers, and collaborate with risk, trading technology, data, security, and platform teams.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building and operating production systems, with deep Python expertise and experience in at least one systems language.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems, concurrency, service and API design, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure as code.
• Proficiency with SQL, analytical or columnar data stores, streaming and messaging systems such as Kafka or Redis, and workflow orchestration such as Airflow or Dagster.
• Hands-on experience with containers, Kubernetes, a major cloud platform, and grid or distributed compute frameworks.
• Experience in a hedge fund, asset manager, investment bank, or similar institution, ideally supporting risk, valuation, or front-office systems.
• Working familiarity with derivatives, multi-asset instruments, VaR, stress testing, sensitivities, limits, margin, and financing; a BS/MS in a quantitative field is required.

Culture & Benefits

• End-to-end ownership of platforms used for daily trading and risk operations.
• Close collaboration with risk managers and portfolio managers and direct visibility into business impact.
• Engineering work focused on latency, scale, reliability, and correctness using modern infrastructure.
• Global exposure across regions, asset classes, and markets.
• Discretionary bonus, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for professional growth and leadership.