Senior Software Engineer
The Role
The Role: Our group is responsible for building software enabling both the large-scale quantitative research operations that drive WorldQuant’s platform and the production of our portfolio. The team is currently embarking on a multi-year journey to provide a powerful, scalable, and efficient platform to drive the firm’s next decade of growth. We are looking for someone who can own some of the unique technical challenges inherent in the problem and who can bring solid experience and perspective to the team.
What You’ll Bring
- A minimum of 7 years of writing production-quality code in C++ on Linux platform
- Strong understanding and experience with Linux system programming fundamentals
- Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, high-performance application design, and concurrency patterns
- Self-motivated and able to work independently with minimal direction
- Proficiency in English
Additional Experience
- Experience with Python development is a plus
- Experience developing systems for managing and performing computation on large-scale graph data
- Experience with streaming / dataflow systems
Core Benefits
- Fully paid medical and dental insurance for employees and dependents
- Flexible spending account
- 401k
- Full paid parental leave
- Generous PTO (paid time off) that consists of:
- Twenty vacation days that are pro-rated based on the employee’s start date, at an accrual of 1.67 days per month
- Three personal days
- Ten sick days
Perks
- Employee discounts for gym memberships
- Wellness activities
- Healthy snacks
- Casual dress code
Training
- Learning and development courses
- Speakers
- Team-building off-site
Pay Transparency
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