Quantitative Development Intern

This London-based summer internship within SS&C's Fund Services business focuses on using Python and quantitative development techniques to build tools and models related to trading, market making, and financial products while utilizing modern infrastructure tools like Docker and Linux.

As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has 27,000+ employees in 35 countries. Some 20,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.

Job Description

Get To Know Us:
SS&C is a global provider of investment and financial software-enabled services and software for the financial services and healthcare industries. Named to Fortune’s Fintech 50 list, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has more than 27,000 employees in 35 countries. Some 20,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world’s largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.

Our Fund Services business delivers innovative solutions to investment managers and financial institutions globally. This internship offers an exciting opportunity to work alongside experienced software engineers and quantitative developers on enterprise-scale applications supporting the financial services industry.

Why You Will Love It Here!
•  Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model
•  Your Future: Professional Development Reimbursement including access to SS&C University
•  Work/Life Balance: Competitive holiday scheme
•  Your Wellbeing: Competitive benefits designed to support the wellbeing of our staff
•  Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity
•  Training: Hands-On, Team-Customised throughout your career

What You Will Get To Do:
•  Support the development and enhancement of quantitative applications within the Fund Services business
•  Develop software solutions using Python and quantitative development techniques
•  Assist in building tools and models related to trading, market making, and financial products
•  Collaborate with global development teams within a distributed working environment
•  Contribute to the design, testing, and optimisation of software applications
•  Work with modern development tools and environments including Docker, Linux, and GitHub
•  Participate in technical discussions, code reviews, and continuous improvement initiatives

What You Will Bring:
•  Currently studying towards a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field
•  Strong knowledge of trading, market making, and financial products
•  Strong understanding of statistics, probability, and quantitative techniques
•  Experience using Python for systems or software development
•  Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
•  Ability to work effectively within a distributed global team
•  Drive, curiosity, and passion to learn new technologies and skills

Desirable Skills
•  Experience using Docker
•  Experience using C/C++
•  Experience using SWIG or PyBindings-11
•  Experience using GitHub version control
•  Experience working within Linux environments

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds to enable us to bring diverse perspectives to our thinking and conversation. It's important to us that we strive to have a workforce that is diverse in the widest sense.