Jobs · Engineering · New York

Quantitative Software Developer for Systematic Strategies (New York, London, Paris, Hong Kong, Singapore)

Quanta Search · New York, NY · 13 mo ago
EngineeringFull-time

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with researchers to build a robust, scalable research infrastructure, including alpha estimation, risk modeling, optimization, and trade execution components
  • Build visualization tools and monitors for market/trade/position/risk
  • Maintain and improve our data pipelines for large-scale data processing
  • Optimize database queries for data collection
  • Maintain and troubleshoot of trading systems
  • Collaborate with the infrastructure team to improve hardware infrastructure

Requirements

  • Undergraduate or higher degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or other quantitative discipline
  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience in a collaborative environment
  • Strong interest and ability in learning new languages/tools and relevant knowledge for trading
  • Strong analytical and quantitative skills
  • Strong programming experience in Python 3(including NumPy and Pandas) and either C++ or Java
  • Strong SQL experience is required, experience in kdb is a plus
  • Proficiency with the Linux environment
  • Experience working with streaming and historical time series data, including a variety of messaging systems and databases
  • Experience developing back-testing, simulation, and trading systems is a plus
  • Detail-oriented
  • Willing to take ownership of his/her work, working both independently and within a small team

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