Quant And Tax Developer

Summary

Join Scalable Capital, a leading European digital investment platform, as a key contributor to their transformative pan-European growth project. You will be responsible for developing the taxation logic supporting this expansion and automating wealth management algorithms. This involves creating and productionizing models that react to client requests and market movements across multiple tax regimes. You will work with cutting-edge technology and modern software development practices within a highly motivated team. The role requires expertise in Python, quantitative modeling, and financial markets, along with excellent communication skills. Scalable Capital offers a competitive compensation package, flexible work arrangements, and opportunities for professional development.

Requirements

• Excellent university degree in computer science, mathematics, natural sciences, or a similar field
• Passion for the global financial markets and for cracking tax challenges
• Knowledge in econometrics with an emphasis on portfolio optimization and risk modelling
• Experience with convex optimization, exposure to libraries like cvxpy, scipy or cvxopt
• Experience in quantitative modeling and data-driven decisions
• Knowledge of software development and software design in Python
• Experience with cloud providers like AWS
• Excellent communication skills that are clear, concise, and targeted towards your audience - engineering, product, or other stakeholders
• Fluent English language skills (written & spoken)
• Proactive and independent working style, good time management, fair play

Responsibilities

• Develop a key component of Scalable’s most transformative project: the taxation logic that supports our pan-European growth
• Automate wealth management algorithms, encompassing risk, cost, and tax optimization in cost-effective burst computations with the capacity to handle 1mn trades in 10 minutes for less than €10
• Productionize algorithmic models that autonomously react to client requests and market movements across multiple tax regimes
• Develop hands-on in Python alongside a highly motivated team of software engineers and quant developers, driving transformative changes in the financial industry
• Work on cutting edge technology and be part of modern software development practices (e.g. agile and self-sufficient teams, continuous integration and deployment, test automation, cloud-based infrastructure and tooling)
• Drive the development of the next generation tax optimization
• Create wealth management and brokerage services for everybody
• Architect and deploy interfaces connecting the Scalable Capital Robo with key internal services to establish seamless connectivity with the external world
• Contribute and develop data-driven ideas aimed at generating business value
• Drive continuous improvements of data pipelines with respect to requirements and platform dependencies
• Fully automate trading algorithms driven by pure quantitative evidence that autonomously manage billions in assets, react to market movements and client requests in hundreds of thousands of individual portfolios
• Never implement any of the above in spreadsheet tools
• Support the tax core team, investment managers, trading, backend, wealth management

Preferred Qualifications

Exposure and interest in our tech stack: Docker, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), relational databases / SQL, knowledge of Java / Kotlin is a plus

Benefits

• Be part of one of the fastest-growing and most visible Fintech startups in Europe, creating innovative services that have a substantial impact on the lives of our customers
• Work with an international, diverse, inclusive, and ever-growing team that loves creating the best products for our clients
• Enjoy an office in a great location in the middle of Munich or Prenzlauer Berg, a vibrant district surrounded by an exciting array of restaurants, cafés and convenient amenities or choose to work remotely within Germany (if eligible for the job)
• Be productive with the latest hardware and tools
• Learn and grow by joining our in-house knowledge sharing sessions and spending your individual Education Budget
• Learn and experience German culture first hand by joining our free German language classes
• (International) relocation support
• Flexible vacation policy and the opportunity to work from abroad
• Benefit from an attractive compensation package and from the company pension scheme
• Monthly contribution of 25% for the ‘Deutschland Jobticket’
• Say goodbye to order commissions and say hello to your complimentary subscription of Scalable Capital's PRIME+ Broker