
Senior Quant Engineer
Arch Capital Group Ltd.
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: New Jersey • New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $234,090 - $316,710 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Design and build front-office quantitative tools and infrastructure supporting portfolio managers, traders, and alternative asset managers across fixed income and credit strategies
- Develop and maintain data ingestion and processing pipelines integrating data from major financial vendors (ICE, Bloomberg, FactSet, Kamakura, LSEG, and others)
- Build and enhance portfolio analytics, optimization frameworks, and simulation environments for portfolio construction, risk analysis, and strategy implementation
- Design and implement daily trading order generation and portfolio management workflows, integrating quantitative tools with front-office systems to streamline the investment process
- Partner with portfolio managers and traders to translate investment workflows and business requirements into scalable technical solutions
- Develop backend services and API interfaces for the AIMI internal investment platform, enabling seamless interaction between analytics systems and front-office applications
- Build scalable, maintainable Python-based analytics libraries and services following software engineering and quantitative development best practices
- Ensure data quality, integrity, and consistency across all datasets used for portfolio construction, risk analysis, and trading decisions
- Collaborate with quant researchers, risk, IT, and operations teams to deliver robust and scalable quantitative infrastructure across the investment platform
- Contribute to building a best-in-class, data-driven investment technology platform supporting both fixed income and alternative strategies
- Support the production environment of quantitative tools used by the investment team, ensuring reliability, transparency, and operational efficiency
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in quantitative engineering, financial engineering, or front-office technology within asset management, hedge funds, financial institutions or other similarly data-driven entity
- Strong hands-on Python programming skills, including production-quality analytics and data processing frameworks
- Experience working with financial market data vendors such as Bloomberg, ICE, FactSet, Kamakura, LSEG, or similar large financial datasets
- Deep experience in data ingestion, normalization, and large-scale data processing, preferably in financial markets environments
- Solid understanding of fixed income and credit markets, including bonds, credit risk metrics, and portfolio analytics preferred
- Experience designing and implementing portfolio optimization or simulation frameworks preferred
- Track record building front-office quantitative tools used by portfolio managers or traders
- Familiarity with REST APIs and backend service development for internal applications and analytics platforms
- Proven ability to collaborate with quant researchers, portfolio managers, risk teams, and technology groups in complex data-rich environments
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and engineering skills with the ability to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions
- Excellent communication skills — able to convey complex quantitative and technical concepts to investment professionals
- Strong team player comfortable working across investment, research, and technology teams in a fast-paced environment.
Benefits
- multiple medical plans plus dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
- a competitive 401k with generous matching
- PTO beginning at 20 days per year
- up to 12 paid company holidays per year plus 2 paid days of Volunteer Time Offer
- basic Life and AD&D Insurance as well as Short and Long-Term Disability
- Paid Parental Leave of up to 10 weeks
- Student Loan Assistance and Tuition Reimbursement
- Backup Child and Elder Care
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Hard Skills & Tools
Python programmingdata ingestiondata processing frameworksportfolio optimizationsimulation frameworksquantitative engineeringfinancial engineeringbackend service developmentREST APIsdata normalization
Soft Skills
analytical skillsproblem-solving skillscollaborationcommunication skillsteam playerability to translate business requirementsinterpersonal skillsorganizational skillsadaptabilityattention to detail