Senior Software Engineer

About 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.

Responsibilities

• Write production-quality code in C++ on Linux platform
• Develop large-scale, distributed systems
• Understand and apply data structures, algorithms, high-performance application design, and concurrency patterns
• Work independently with minimal direction
• Develop systems for managing and performing computation on large-scale graph data
• Develop streaming / dataflow systems

Requirements

• 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

Qualifications

• Experience with one or more of: Python development experience is also a plus
• Experience developing systems for managing and performing computation on large-scale graph data
• Experience with streaming / dataflow systems

Skills

Excellent ideas come from anyone, anywhere. Employees are encouraged to challenge conventional thinking and possess an attitude of continuous improvement.

Benefits

• Fully paid medical and dental insurance for employees and dependents, flexible spending account, 401k
• 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, and ten sick days
• Employee discounts for gym memberships, wellness activities, healthy snacks, casual dress code
• Learning and development courses, speakers, team-building off-site
• Employee resource groups

Pay

The Base Pay Range For This Position Is $175,000 – $250,000 USD.

Schedule

Not specified.