Financial Engineer

About usWe’re a diverse group of visionary innovators who provide trading and workflow automation software, high-value analytics, and strategic consulting to corporations, central banks, financial institutions, and governments. Founded in 1999, we’ve achieved tremendous growth by bringing together some of the best and most successful financial technology companies in the world. •         Over 2,000 of the world’s leading corporations, including 50% of the Fortune 500 and 30% of the world’s central banks, trust ION solutions to manage their cash, in-house banking, commodity supply chain, trading and risk.•         Over 800 of the world’s leading banks and broker-dealers use our electronic trading platforms to operate the world’s financial market infrastructure.With 10,000 employees and offices in more than 40 cities around the globe, ION is a rapidly expanding and dynamic group.
At ION, we offer careers that provide many opportunities: To invent. To design. To collaborate. To build. To transform businesses and empower people around the world to do more, faster and better than before. Imagine what you can do and experience. This is where you can do your best work.
About the role:The primary purpose of a Financial Engineer is to carry out the functional and technical design of advanced financial engineering models aligned with strategic business and product goals. The role contributes directly to the development of cutting-edge analytics, risk management techniques, and automated trade workflow tools, leveraging modern technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

Key Responsabilities

• Design and develop valuation algorithms for new and existing financial instruments.
• Maintain and enhance quantitative libraries supporting OTC derivatives valuation and risk management.
• Build and test quantitative models and perform statistical analysis on large time-series datasets.
• Develop backtesting environments and extract research datasets from client data.
• Produce detailed functional specifications aligned with business needs.
• Implement new functionalities and support development teams during integration.
• Participate in pre-sales workshops to provide financial expertise and strategic input.
• Provide client support by explaining research methodologies and facilitating product integration.
• Lead cross-product initiatives and ensure alignment with business objectives.
• Define team roles and structures to support various projects.
• Collaborate with documentation teams to produce comprehensive user guides.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 3–5 years of experience as a Quantitative Developer or Financial Engineer in financial markets.
• Postgraduate degree in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, or Engineering.
• Strong programming skills in Python, C, VBA, or Java.
• Ability to learn quickly and work independently.
• Familiarity with numerical analysis and stochastic calculus (or willingness to learn).
• Strong interest in financial markets and quantitative modeling.
Preferred Qualifications
• Experience with Excel.
• Exposure to OTC derivatives and risk management frameworks.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.

Important notes:According to the Italian Law (L.68/99) please note that candidates from the disability list will be given priority. Due to the high volume of applications, only those candidates that meet the required criteria for selection will be contacted. Please do not apply if you don’t currently have the legal right to work in Italy, if that right is just about to expire, or if that right has restrictions imposed which would prevent you from undertaking a full-time employment contract.