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Prudential Financial

Sells life insurance, annuities and investments

Quant Platform Engineer

Platform EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeLondon, UKNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • A Bachelor's or higher degree in Computer Science.
  • Experience building and delivering software, analytics, and data platforms.
  • Expertise in Python software development.
  • Experience in data engineering, distributed computing, and large-scale data processing.
  • Experience partnering closely with quantitative researchers, investment teams, and technology organizations.
  • Understanding of fixed income, credit, asset management, or broader financial markets.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop platform capabilities, services, and tooling using Python.
  • Build and support data platforms, quantitative libraries, distributed computing infrastructure, and shared services used by QMS researchers and investment teams.
  • Partner closely with quantitative researchers and technology teams to align platform capabilities with business needs.
  • Contribute to architecture, code reviews, testing, performance optimization, and operational excellence.
  • Drive continuous improvement through automation, innovation, and engineering best practices.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience building quantitative analytics, risk management, portfolio management, investment research, or quant platforms.
  • Experience with distributed computing and data processing frameworks such as Ray, Dask, Apache Spark, Apache Beam, or similar technologies.
  • Experience with event-driven architectures and messaging platforms such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar technologies.
  • Experience with modern software engineering practices including monorepos, continuous integration and continuous delivery, automated testing, and Python developer tooling.

About the Company

Prudential Financial

Sells life insurance, annuities and investments

Prudential Financial sells life insurance, annuities and retirement plans to individuals and employers in the United States and Japan, and it invests money for institutional investors through PGIM, its asset management arm. PGIM brings together specialist firms, including stock picker Jennison Associates and separate units for bonds, quantitative strategies, real estate and private credit. Prudential earns insurance premiums, collects investment returns on the premiums it holds until claims and payouts come due, and charges fees on the assets PGIM manages. The company was founded in 1875 to sell burial insurance and is headquartered in Newark, New Jersey.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Newark, NJ
Founded
1875

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