About the Role
The T. Rowe Price Fixed Income Technology team seeks a Senior Quant Developer with financial services experience, specifically from a Front Office quantitative background. This role supports the development and delivery of quantitative research and models in partnership with Fixed Income Quantitative Research Analysts. It is a hands-on, full development lifecycle position involving problem-solving across business, logic, data, and technical challenges, leveraging both technology skills and financial knowledge.
Responsibilities
- Partner independently with Quants to translate research into production-ready models that inform the investment decision-making process.
- Work on Quant models in rates, credit & FX.
- Support the research-to-production lifecycle, including validation, deployment, and ongoing production support.
- Architect and improve proprietary models and production systems for reliability, resiliency, scalability, and performance.
- Lead code and model reviews, and own the operational health of systems (monitoring, alerting, incident response, technical debt).
- Operate as a hands-on individual contributor, leading work streams and potentially small teams.
Requirements
- Advanced degree in a quantitative field (Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, or Financial Engineering).
- 5+ years of progressive software engineering experience.
- Front-office software development experience within Asset Management, a Hedge Fund, an Investment Bank, or FinTech.
- Advanced Python proficiency.
- Proficiency on Linux with common scripting languages.
- Strong analytical skills, including working with and analyzing large data sets.
- Strong grasp of testing approaches, focusing on performance and accuracy.
- Experience delivering in an Agile environment.
- Working knowledge of Fixed Income markets and securities (focus on cash bonds/rates), including pricing, curve construction, and risk analytics (duration, convexity, DV01).
- Advanced mathematical knowledge (e.g., statistics, time-series analysis, asset-pricing theory, optimization algorithms).
- Strong knowledge of one or more SQL / NoSQL databases.
- Experience building containerized applications and deploying to cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure, or similar).
- Experience with web-based development and data visualization for large, complex data sets.
- Familiarity with fixed income data sources (e.g., Bloomberg, ICE, FINRA TRACE).
Skills
- Python
- AWS
- Docker
- SQL
- Gitlab CI/CD
- Linux scripting
- Quantitative analysis
- Agile methodologies
- Fixed Income markets
- Pricing
- Curve construction
- Risk analytics
- Statistics
- Time-series analysis
- Asset-pricing theory
- Optimization algorithms
- SQL databases
- NoSQL databases
- Containerized applications
- Cloud deployment (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Web development
- Data visualization
- Fixed income data sources (Bloomberg, ICE, FINRA TRACE)
Location
- Baltimore
- London
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- 5+ years
Education Level
- Advanced degree in a quantitative field
About the Company
- T. Rowe Price is an asset management firm focused on delivering global investment management excellence and retirement services that investors can rely on–now, and over the long term.
