Quantitative Developer

We are searching for a Senior Quantitative Developer to join a leading global market-making firm in Amsterdam. This is a role for an engineer who enjoys building high-performance data platforms that directly power live trading decisions in fast-moving financial markets.

You’ll operate at the core of the trading ecosystem, developing real-time analytics infrastructure that processes large-scale market data streams and transforms them into actionable insights. The work sits close to traders and researchers, where speed, scalability, and system resilience are non-negotiable.

What you’ll be working on Designing and scaling real-time data pipelines for trading analytics Building platforms that provide instant access to live and historical market data Developing high-throughput processing systems for large-scale datasets Expanding analytics capabilities used in high-frequency trading environments Integrating research tooling and machine learning workflows into production systems Improving reliability and automated recovery in latency-sensitive infrastructure

Key responsibilities Develop scalable, production-grade systems supporting real-time trading analytics Partner closely with traders and researchers to translate data needs into robust technical solutions Drive improvements across ingestion, storage, and processing layers Optimize low-latency data flows and compute-heavy workloads Engineer systems with resilience, observability, and operational excellence in mind Contribute to continuous evolution of internal data platforms and research frameworks

What we’re looking for 5+ years of experience building high-performance data systems or infrastructure Strong programming skills in C++ and/or Python Experience working with real-time analytics platforms or streaming architectures Solid understanding of networking, system reliability, and database performance Experience with modern data tooling such as Pandas, Polars, PyArrow, Kafka, PostgreSQL, or similar technologies Comfortable working with large-scale datasets in latency-sensitive environments Exposure to trading or financial markets is a plus, but not required

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