Quantitative Researcher

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Quantitative Researcher in UK

Wise
Full time
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UK
09/16/2026
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London

Responsibilities

Own a primary focus in production quantitative engineering or applied quantitative modelling.
Implement quantitative work in Python from research or prototypes through reliable production systems.
Validate, backtest, and monitor model and service performance against realized outcomes.
Handle deployment, incident response, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
Develop shared quantitative libraries, CI/CD pipelines, deployments, monitoring, alerting, and reliability for real-time pricing and risk systems.
Contribute to market data pipelines, quantitative infrastructure, backtesting frameworks, risk modelling, customer behaviour modelling, pricing strategy, and product development.

Requirements

4+ years of relevant quantitative or engineering experience and strong Python development skills.
A quantitative background in mathematics, physics, engineering, or finance, with the ability to reason about model correctness.
Experience taking quantitative work into production and owning its validation, monitoring, and improvement.
Clear communication and the ability to collaborate with quants, analysts, traders, product managers, and engineers.
Research-track candidates should have strong quantitative research or financial modelling experience, including backtesting and out-of-sample validation.
Developer-track candidates should have strong experience with microservices, databases, production infrastructure, testing, monitoring, debugging, streaming systems, real-time data pipelines, or event-driven architectures.
Familiarity with FX or financial markets, term structure modelling, stochastic calculus, Monte Carlo methods, interest-rate curve bootstrapping, algorithmic execution, or data lake and warehouse technologies is a bonus.

Benefits

Annual compensation is GBP 90500 - GBP 127000.
The role is part of Wise’s international, inclusive, and diverse team; no specific work arrangement or contract duration is stated.

Wise

Wise builds a cross-border payments and multi-currency account used by individuals and businesses to send, receive, hold, and spend money in 40+ currencies. Revenue comes from transfer and account fees, card interchange, and enterprise partnerships via Wise Platform, which lets banks and large co...

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