Fasanara

Boutique asset manager financing fintech lenders

Quant Technology Lead

Backend EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeLondon, UKNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

Significant software engineering and solution architecture experience, with a track record of building scalable production systems.
Experience within multi-asset hedge funds, multi-manager hedge funds, large financial institutions, or portfolio management system/risk management system technology platforms.
Experience building multi-asset investment platforms supporting multiple portfolio managers or investment teams.
Good knowledge of financial instruments, portfolio construction, and risk management, and strong knowledge of hedge fund operations.
Experience integrating prime brokers, fund administrators, custodians, and market data providers with portfolio and risk management systems.
Experience building sophisticated investment and risk reports or dashboards.
Strong practical knowledge of cloud-native architectures, distributed systems, application programming interfaces, data platforms, databases, and production infrastructure.
Strong hands-on software engineering capability alongside architecture and technical leadership experience.
Experience designing secure and resilient systems where data accuracy, auditability, and operational reliability are critical.
Ability to translate complex investment and business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
Strong understanding of data architecture and integration across multiple internal and external data sources.
Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
Entrepreneurial mindset with a high degree of ownership, accountability, and attention to detail.
Strong interest in innovation and the practical application of artificial intelligence to technology and investment workflows.

Responsibilities

Lead the design, architecture, development, and evolution of the Open Quant technology platform.
Build scalable, secure, resilient, cloud-native systems supporting a growing multi-manager quantitative investment business.
Define the technical roadmap for core investment, portfolio, risk, data, and operational systems.
Design robust application programming interfaces, data models, and integration frameworks.
Establish strong engineering standards across security, scalability, reliability, and operational excellence.
Act as a hands-on technical lead while helping develop the wider Quant Technology function.
Design and develop institutional-quality investment and portfolio management technology.
Build portfolio aggregation, investment analytics, and cross-manager risk monitoring capabilities.
Develop portfolio, risk, and analytics capabilities on top of a centralised Position Ledger.
Build application programming interfaces and data services providing investment, portfolio, and risk information to Portfolio Management, Risk, and Operations.
Ensure investment data and analytics are accurate, reproducible, and auditable.
Lead the development of a central Position Ledger integrating broker positions into a standardised and auditable data model.
Build and maintain security master and pricing datasets.
Design scalable market, portfolio, reference, and operational data architecture.
Build resilient data pipelines supporting quantitative research, portfolio management, analytics, and production monitoring.
Integrate market data providers, prime brokers, custodians, fund administrators, and other external systems into the platform.
Drive the practical application of artificial intelligence across software development and investment workflows.
Identify opportunities to automate investment and operational processes while maintaining appropriate controls and auditability.
Evaluate emerging technologies that can improve platform performance, scalability, and engineering productivity.
Act as the primary technology partner to the Open Quant business.
Work closely with portfolio managers and quantitative researchers to translate investment requirements into robust technical solutions.
Partner with Risk, Operations, and central Technology teams to ensure platform capabilities meet business requirements.
Own and drive the Quant Technology roadmap jointly with the Quant and Technology leadership teams.

Desired Qualifications

Experience helping build or lead technology and engineering teams in a growing environment.

Quant Technology Lead

Fasanara · London, United Kingdom · Full-time · Posted 2026-08-10

Workplace: on_site

Department: Technology

Description

About Fasanara

Founded in 2011, Fasanara is a global asset manager and technology platform.

We manage c. USD 6 billion AUM (as of December 31, 2025) in Fintech strategies on behalf of pension funds and insurance companies in Europe and North America.

With c.110 employees globally, we are a pioneer investor in Fintech Lending, enabling Real Economy Impact.

Fasanara manages the largest and longest standing Fintech Lending fund in Europe and invests in early-stage Fintech companies via its venture capital vehicles, using its central role in the Fintech ecosystem to identify and back revolutionary new businesses.

Our Culture

We are strong believers in meritocracy, and we seek to reward people based on impact and excellence. There is no bureaucracy, typical of large organisations. The environment is collaborative, entrepreneurial, and trust based. We set ambitious goals, work extremely hard, stress the importance of teamwork, and adhere to the highest level of excellence in everything we do. We are only as good as our team. Thus, we are building the firm around exceptional talent.

The Role

We are seeking a Quant Technology Lead to lead the design, architecture, delivery, and continuous evolution of the technology platform powering Fasanara Open Quant.

Reporting directly to the Head of Technology, the successful candidate will be fully dedicated to the Open Quant business, working closely with the Head of Quant Division and the Quant investment team. As the primary technology partner to the business, they will translate investment, portfolio, risk, and operational requirements into scalable production technology.

This is a highly hands-on technical leadership role. The successful candidate will design and build core platform capabilities while working directly with portfolio managers, quantitative researchers, traders, risk professionals, operations teams, and engineers.

The ideal candidate combines deep software engineering and architecture expertise with a strong understanding of financial markets and investment technology. As Open Quant continues to scale, they will play a central role in defining its technical roadmap and developing the dedicated Quant Technology function.

Responsibilities

Platform Architecture & Engineering

Lead the design, architecture, development, and evolution of the Open Quant technology platform.
Build scalable, secure, resilient, cloud-native systems supporting a growing multi-manager quantitative investment business.
Define the technical roadmap for core investment, portfolio, risk, data, and operational systems.
Design robust APIs, data models, and integration frameworks.
Establish strong engineering standards across security, scalability, reliability, and operational excellence.
Act as a hands-on technical lead while helping develop the wider Quant Technology function.

Investment, Portfolio & Risk Technology

Design and develop institutional-quality investment and portfolio management technology.
Build portfolio aggregation, investment analytics, and cross-manager risk monitoring capabilities.
Develop portfolio, risk, and analytics capabilities on top of a centralised Position Ledger.
Build APIs and data services providing investment, portfolio, and risk information to Portfolio Management, Risk, and Operations.
Ensure investment data and analytics are accurate, reproducible, and auditable.

Data & Integrations

Lead the development of a central Position Ledger integrating broker positions into a standardised and auditable data model.
Build and maintain security master and pricing datasets.
Design scalable market, portfolio, reference, and operational data architecture.
Build resilient data pipelines supporting quantitative research, portfolio management, analytics, and production monitoring.
Integrate market data providers, prime brokers, custodians, fund administrators, and other external systems into the platform.

AI & Automation

Drive the practical application of AI across software development and investment workflows.
Identify opportunities to automate investment and operational processes while maintaining appropriate controls and auditability.
Evaluate emerging technologies that can improve platform performance, scalability, and engineering productivity.

Technology Leadership & Partnership

Act as the primary technology partner to the Open Quant business.
Work closely with portfolio managers and quantitative researchers to translate investment requirements into robust technical solutions.
Partner with Risk, Operations, and central Technology teams to ensure platform capabilities meet business requirements.
Own and drive the Quant Technology roadmap jointly with the Quant and Technology leadership teams.

Requirements

Essential

Significant software engineering and solution architecture experience, with a track record of building scalable production systems.
Experience within multi-asset hedge funds, multi-manager hedge funds, large financial institutions, or PMS/RMS technology platforms
Experience building multi-asset investment platforms supporting multiple portfolio managers or investment teams
Good knowledge of financial instruments, portfolio construction, and risk management. Strong knowledge in hedge fund operations.
Experience integrating prime brokers, fund administrators, custodians and market data providers to the portfolio and risk management systems
Experience building sophisticated investment and risk reports / dashboards.
Strong practical knowledge of cloud-native architectures, distributed systems, APIs, data platforms, databases, and production infrastructure.
Strong hands-on software engineering capability alongside architecture and technical leadership experience.
Experience designing secure and resilient systems where data accuracy, auditability, and operational reliability are critical.
Ability to translate complex investment and business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
Strong understanding of data architecture and integration across multiple internal and external data sources.
Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
Entrepreneurial mindset with a high degree of ownership, accountability, and attention to detail.
Strong interest in innovation and the practical application of AI to technology and investment workflows.

Desirable

Experience helping build or lead technology and engineering teams in a growing environment
Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
Entrepreneurial mindset with a high degree of ownership, accountability, and attention to detail
Strong interest in innovation and the practical application of AI to technology and investment workflows

Benefits

Our benefits include:

Performance-related Bonus Scheme
Private Medical & Dental Insurance through Bupa (including children's cover)
Life Insurance, Income Protection & Critical Illness Cover
Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
Salary sacrifice pension with Hargreaves Lansdown (currently matched up to 10%)
Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave
Emergency Parental Leave, Emergency Childcare & Nursery Benefit
Cycle to Work Scheme
Charity Giving through CAF
Annual Wellbeing Budget
Team socials, annual Summer & Christmas parties, and other events throughout the year

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About the Company

Fasanara

Boutique asset manager financing fintech lenders

Fasanara Capital is a London-based boutique asset manager that funds fintech lenders and digital investing strategies. It finances tech-enabled specialist lenders through a technology platform that links a global network of fintech loan originators with investors. The firm uses asset-backed debt, multi-asset niche products, and digital-asset rails, with active Latin America programs and facilities for platforms like Plata, Plurall, Addi, and Kapital’s package. Its goal is to be a trusted credit partner for fintechs by connecting originators, capital, and digital financing rails across regions.

Company size: 11-50
Company stage: Not listed
Total funding: $1.4B
Headquarters: London, United Kingdom
Founded: 2011

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