Quantitative Developer, Fixed Income

Beacon Platform builds a cloud-based development environment that enables quants, data scientists, and commercial developers to rapidly build and deploy the functionality their businesses need at the largest scales. Additionally, we build and externalize trading and risk management applications for all sides of the financial services industry.

As a Fixed Income Quantitative Developer, you will play a critical role within the Quant team, helping to enhance and expand our Fixed Income product suite, including Credit Derivatives, Bonds, and other Fixed Income instruments. You will work closely with cross-functional teams of developers and interact directly with clients to deliver solutions for both developers and end-users focused on trading and risk management. Your contributions will help drive the continuous improvement of our platform's valuation, risk analytics, and trade management capabilities. 

What You’ll Do

• Develop and enhance models for valuation, risk, and trade lifecycle management, with a focus on Bonds, Credit Derivatives, and other Fixed Income markets.
• Design, build, and maintain frameworks within the platform to support Fixed Income products, including lifecycle management, scenario analysis, cash flow generation, and reporting (e.g., P&L attribution).
• Identify and advocate for new models and design patterns necessary for the continuous improvement of an evolving infrastructure to support all clients

What we are looking for

• 3+ years of experience in quantitative development, with a focus on financial products.
• Familiarity with Credit Derivatives and Bonds
• Strong understanding of Credit Derivatives, Bonds, and Fixed Income markets, including market conventions, deal structures, and pricing/risk management
• Experience developing code in a production environment
• Development Background in a high-level language, preferably with a few years of Python experience
• Strong problem solving and communication skills, ability to convey technical topics to a diverse audience

What Will Make You Stand Out

• Experience in a front office development role, preferably on a Credit Derivatives or Fixed Income trading desk, supporting securities pricing, hedging, and risk analytics
• Experience building/enhancing/maintaining pricing and risk systems
• Familiarity with relevant sources of market data and product data
• Prior experience working with clients to customize platforms, integrate models, or develop technical solutions is a plus

Expected Range: $175,000 - $200,000

What You’ll Love About Beacon

• Unlimited PTO - This isn’t your typical unlimited PTO plan. All employees take at least 20 days off a year. After that? Take the time off you need to strike the perfect work/life balance for you.
• 10 paid company holidays
• 401k match
• Charitable donation match
• Access to Udemy - An online learning and teaching marketplace with over 185,000 courses. Learn programming, marketing, data science, or brush up on your public speaking and writing skills. 
• Startup Culture - Our employees have a voice and can make a big impact across the organization. A lot of people in large companies don’t feel connected to what they’re doing and feel like they’re put in a box. Here you will have the freedom to be creative and innovative. We’re looking for smart and driven people to help get us to the next level.