Analyst, Junior Quantitative Developer - Core Platform

About the role

Seated within our Quantitative Investment Science group, the Analyst, Junior Quantitative Developer builds the core services, APIs, and shared foundations that the rest of our product is built on. This role is ideal for analytically-minded engineers who care about how systems fit together and want to help shape product through the foundations they build.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain core backend services and APIs that power product features
• Develop shared platform components used across frontend and backend applications
• Build and improve data pipelines and integrations across the platform
• Contribute to developer tooling, CI/CD, and automated testing that keeps services reliable
• Partner with product and design to turn requirements into clear technical designs
• Support gradual rollouts and feature flags to ship changes safely
• Instrument services with logging, metrics, and telemetry for reliability
• Document platform capabilities and APIs so teams can build with confidence

Requirements

The ideal candidate is someone who has:

• Strong analytical skills and natural curiosity about how systems work end to end
• Excellent collaboration skills - you'll work closely with product and development
• An attention to detail and systematic thinking
• A love for turning requirements into well-defined, durable systems
• An interest in finance and building efficient products that users love

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Python and SQL for building services and working with data
• Understanding of web application architecture (frontend/backend request flow)
• Exposure to cloud platforms (Azure preferred), including containers and CI/CD pipelines
• Familiarity with API design and building clear, well-structured endpoints
• Familiarity with event-driven architecture and telemetry patterns
• Experience with collaborative git workflows (branching, pull requests, code review)
• Ability to communicate technical decisions clearly to product and non-technical collaborators
• An interest in system design and writing clean, well-typed, tested, maintainable code

Skills

• Proficiency in Python and SQL
• Understanding of web application architecture
• Exposure to cloud platforms (Azure preferred)
• Familiarity with API design and building clear, well-structured endpoints
• Familiarity with event-driven architecture and telemetry patterns
• Experience with collaborative git workflows
• Ability to communicate technical decisions clearly

Benefits

This role is eligible for a discretionary annual bonus, which is determined based on individual and overall firm performance. In addition to salary and bonus, total compensation may include eligibility for long-term reward programs and a comprehensive total rewards package that may include retirement, health, insurance, paid time off, and wellness programs.

Pay

Base Salary Range: $130,000.00 - $140,000.00

Schedule

This role is a hybrid work arrangement. You will receive 18 remote workdays per quarter to use at your discretion, subject to manager approval. For example, you may choose to work in the office 4 days per week and take one remote day weekly (typically 13 weeks per quarter), leaving 5 additional remote days to be used as needed.