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Chenavari Investment Managers is looking for a talented Junior Quant Developer to join its Risk Management team. You will be part of a high-performance, collaborative environment, helping to build and maintain mission-critical infrastructure for risk analysis and investment decision-making. This is an excellent opportunity for someone early in their career to contribute meaningfully while developing both technical and financial expertise.
🏢 About Chenavari
Founded in 2008, Chenavari Investment Managers is a staff-owned asset management firm with $5bn+ AUM, specializing in European credit across corporate and financial bonds, structured credit products, and private debt origination. Our entrepreneurial team takes a value-based approach, investing across three primary business lines: tradable credit, private credit, and leveraged finance.
🛠️ Key Responsibilities
As a Junior Quant Developer, you will contribute to the ongoing development and support of the proprietary Risk Management platform and quantitative library. You will:
- Build Python-based and Excel-based risk tools and integrations used by traders, analysts, and risk managers
- Develop, test and support C++ quant code on proprietary Risk Management system
- Improve accuracy of quantitative models for trading
- Maintain a constant smooth day-to-day process with fast bug-fixing
- Document quantitative models and system components effectively
🎯 Required Skills & Qualifications
We’re looking for a smart, curious, and technically capable individual with:
- 1–2 years of experience in a quantitative or software development role, preferably in financial markets
- Proficiency in C++ and Python, with a focus on production-level code
- Understanding of data structures, numerical methods, and statistics
- Familiarity with Linux, Git, and scripting (Bash or similar)
- Experience and knowledge of the fixed income or credit financial instruments at a bank or alternative asset manager is a plus
- Excellent problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and communication ability
- Eager to learn, with a proactive and self-motivated attitude
- Fluent in English
- Legal right to work in the United Kingdom
Soft Skills
- Strong attention to detail, proactive, highly organized and process-driven
- Excellent verbal, written communication and relationship building skills
- Available to providing on-call, early morning and remote support
Educational requirement
- First class or Upper Second class honors degree in a heavily maths-oriented subject from a highly recognised University
💡 What You’ll Gain
- First-hand exposure to live financial systems and investment processes
- Opportunity to work directly with experienced traders, risk managers, and quants
- Fast feedback cycles — see your code deployed and used across the firm
- Supportive environment that values technical excellence, ownership, and collaborative attitude
- Strong career development in both engineering and finance
