Senior Software Engineer

About 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.

Responsibilities

• Research, design, code, test and deploy firmwide platforms and tooling.
• Work collaboratively with researchers and portfolio managers.
• Contribute to a relaxed yet intellectually driven environment, thinking in code and being motivated by like‑minded peers.

Requirements

• Minimum of 7 years of writing production‑quality code in C++ on Linux.
• Strong understanding and experience with Linux system programming fundamentals.
• Ability to develop large‑scale, distributed systems.
• 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.

Skills

• Python development experience (a plus).
• Experience developing systems for managing and performing computation on large‑scale graph data.
• Experience with streaming / dataflow systems.

Benefits

• Fully paid medical and dental insurance for employees and dependents.
• Flexible spending account.
• 401(k).
• Fully paid parental leave.
• Generous PTO: 20 vacation days (pro‑rated based on start date, accrual 1.67 days per month), 3 personal days, 10 sick days.
• Employee discounts for gym memberships, wellness activities, healthy snacks.
• Casual dress code.
• Learning and development courses, speakers, team‑building off‑sites.
• Employee resource groups.

Pay

WorldQuant offers a total compensation package consisting of base salary, discretionary performance bonus, and benefits. The base pay range for this position is $175,000 – $250,000 USD.