Quantitative Strategy Developer

MapleCap Partners AG is a hedge fund specializing in inflation markets. We are looking for a quantitative developer to join our growing team. Founder and Chief Investment Officer of MapleCap, Kamil Szynkarczuk, is an accomplished portfolio manager and leads the young firm.

Job Description

Job Title Quantitative Strategy Developer

Department Quantitative Team (Front Office)

Location Pfäffikon SZ, Switzerland

Start Date January 2027, by arrangement

Duration Permanent

Workload Full-time (100%)

Type On-site (office)

Salary Competitive

This role is highly autonomous and vertically integrated in the front office. You will collaborate with portfolio managers, other quants, and internal IT. You will own the development of a fixed income systematic strategy platform.

Required Qualifications

Education

Degree from a renowned university in CS, mathematics, physics, engineering or another quantitative discipline
At least 4 years of full-time equivalent studies
Comfortable with probability, statistics, linear algebra, optimization, machine learning

Programming

1+ years of professional experience in python software development
Demonstrated ability to write clean, tested, production-quality python code
Worked on a team of researchers and/or developers

Software Engineering

Evidence of building and shipping production-grade systems
Has written tests, used version control, built CI/CD pipelines, used profiling, used debugging
Collaborated with other developers using code review, issue tracking, and version control

Algorithms

Ability to implement algorithms using data structures and numerical methods
Experience with parallelization of computational workflows

LLM Systems

Demonstrated experience in building and deploying RAG or other LLM-based systems

DevOps

Used docker to build and deploy a service or backend using cloud infrastructure

Databases

Proficient in writing SQL queries including joins and aggregations

Financial Data

Experience in processing time series and other financial market data comprising of millions of individual records

Production Code

Experience translating research or prototypes into robust production code and testing it

Unix Tools

Comfortable developing in Linux and using command-line development tools

Financial Markets

Basic knowledge of fixed income markets: Fixed-income instruments, pricing, yield curves, duration, convexity, spreads, and interest-rate risk

Language

Minimum C1 English proficiency (CEFR)
Effective in communicating technical topics

Advantageous

A curious mindset, analytical thinking, attention to detail, collaborative
Top 10% academic performance or recognition on dean's list
University coursework in finance
Experience in modelling inflation or other macroeconomic time series

Examples of what we could test for

Implementing a specific algorithm as clean python code, including writing tests for it
Developing a solution to an open-ended technical problem
Reasoning through a probabilistic puzzle
Explaining how a fixed income instrument is priced
Debugging a code snippet provided to you

Responsibilities

Take ownership of the buildout of a new systematic trading strategy framework
Collaborate with portfolio managers to define and refine requirements
Use expert software engineering practices and design patterns
Implement core functional blocks such as PnL calculation and analytics
Periodically demonstrate your progress to internal stakeholders
Autonomously manage your backlog priority queue, and timeline
Develop data warehousing requirements for implementation by internal IT
Implement an optimization framework
Build user interfaces as requested by internal users
Employ software engineering best practices for implementing tests and monitoring/observability
Cover production issues during deployment of the systematic strategy
Seek discussions with peers about open problems and proactively ask for help when needed

Benefits

Competitive compensation
Drinks, fruit and snacks in office kitchen
Rapid learning curve within the competitive hedge fund industry
Networking opportunities at industry events
Regular team events

Please apply up to COB 10th November 2026 using this link - https://maplecappartners.bamboohr.com/careers/39