# Lead Quantitative Developer

**Company:** [Pinely](http://jobs.workable.com/companies/51mVC1h3yQ5pLstk39gTsf.md)
**Location:** Amsterdam, Netherlands
**Workplace:** on site
**Employment type:** Full-time
**Department:** Research

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## Description

We are Pinely, a high-frequency algorithmic trading firm based in Amsterdam.

Our team specializes in developing robust and adaptive strategies applicable across a wide range of financial instruments and exchanges. We actively support the Olympiad movement, and many of our colleagues are prize-winning mathematicians, researchers and engineers.

Researchers at Pinely benefit from working in a fast-paced HFT environment, where the impact of their ideas is quickly visible in production. The research teams are supported by a world-class infrastructure group that ensures smooth deployment and reliable experimentation at scale.

Our flat organizational structure encourages autonomy, creativity, and direct ownership. We value an informal, idea-driven culture where innovation is celebrated and every contribution matters.

  
**About the role:  
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We're looking for a **Lead Quantitative Developer** to join one of our trading teams - someone who combines deep technical ownership with the ability to grow and lead people.  
The team is intentionally small by design - close mentorship, no bureaucracy. Great leadership here means staying in the trenches, not stepping away from them.  
  
We're building toward a research lab culture. That means: understanding **why** something works, not just making it work. Reducing vague problems to core uncertainties before writing code. Intellectual honesty - with yourself and in the code you review. And the courage to push back and own decisions when it matters.  

**What you'll do**

-   Owning and evolving the team's strategy codebase with direct P&L impact
-   Decomposing research and production problems into concrete, delegatable tasks with clear success criteria
-   Growing QDs on the team - understanding their strengths, motivations, and career goals; giving regular feedback that amplifies rather than just corrects
-   Prioritizing QD capacity across competing demands: research requests, production stability, infra timelines
-   Driving alignment with infrastructure and research teams through influence, not hierarchy
-   Accelerating the research cycle using in-house AI development tools - agentic coding assistants, end-to-end AI-driven workflows
-   Independently building and shipping strategy improvements where engineering quality has direct trading impact
-   What we're looking for

**What we're looking for:**

-   Strong mathematical and algorithmic thinking; solid grasp of statistics and probability
-   Ability to write production-quality C++ and Python 3
-   Experience delegating technical work - not just assigning tasks, but framing problems so others can own them
-   Track record of growing junior and mid-level engineers
-   Deep systems understanding: ability to navigate the full stack from model training and simulation through to production - and reason about how a change at one layer affects others
-   Willingness to dive deep into market microstructure and strategy details
-   Experience with or strong interest in ML/AI tooling in research workflows

**What we offer:**

-   A dynamic and international environment within a fast-growing tech company
-   Salary at the upper end of the market, along with significant bonuses twice a year
-   Freedom to shape internal culture and create meaningful employee experiences, team-building activities
-   Health insurance, reimbursement of sports expenses; coverage for language courses
-   A supportive, experienced team that values collaboration - and where your impact will be visible every day

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If you're ready to lead at the intersection of engineering excellence and people growth - we'd love to talk!**