Capstone Investment Advisors
Senior Risk Engineer
London, England +2 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 28, 2026
- Location
- London, England
London, England, United Kingdom
New York, New York, United States - Experience
- 5+ years; relevant experience in software engineering, quantitative development, or risk technology within a hedge fund, asset manager, investment bank, or comparable capital-markets environment.
About the job
Builds and operates production risk technology and investment decision-support tools, translating derivatives and portfolio analytics into actionable insights for investment teams.
What you'll do
- Architect, build, and support scalable production components for cross-asset risk analytics, APIs, data pipelines, and interactive tools.
- Partner with Portfolio Managers, Risk Managers, and Quant Research to take risk and portfolio challenges from definition through production.
- Advance Risk Intelligence capabilities, including tools for scenario analysis, exposure and P&L diagnostics, and validated analytics accessible through natural language.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of relevant software engineering, quantitative development, or risk technology experience in a capital-markets environment, with meaningful exposure to front-office or market-risk systems.
- A record of personally building and supporting production-grade risk, pricing, or trading systems and owning complex projects through delivery and support.
- Advanced Python / Java and SQL skills, proficiency in at least one comparable language, and practical experience with APIs, architectures, databases, data pipelines, and large-scale processing.
- Strong understanding of derivatives and cross-asset risk analytics, including option pricing, Greeks, scenario analysis, and VaR.
Nice to have
- Knowledge of factor risk and margin analytics.
- Experience with production machine learning, large language models agentic tools, AI-assisted development, or modern engineering and data platforms.
Tools
Python, Java, SQL
AI focus
Build tools that apply AI to investment insight, including validated analytics accessible through natural language; bonus experience includes production machine learning, large language models agentic tools, or AI-assisted development.
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