Senior Systematic Trading Software Engineer

About the role

This role offers the opportunity to work on innovative technology within a cutting-edge proprietary trading firm focused on risk management.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with traders, quants and technologists to drive requirements and propose solutions.
• Engineer compute solutions to handle sophisticated and data-heavy research processes.
• Create robust data pipelines to process and analyze large structured and unstructured datasets.
• Build testing frameworks to ensure correctness and model code performance.
• Design and implement trading services that quickly convert research ideas into production.

Requirements

Experience in software development on a trading desk or in a fast-paced and forward-thinking environment.

• Ability to understand trade-offs when building a service-oriented system, and balance long-term strategic planning and short-term tactical solutions to meet evolving needs of the business.
• Expertise in distributed parallel compute systems, preferably cloud.
• Strong understanding and hands-on experience with performance optimization.
• Python experience building statistical research and analytic platforms with large and diverse historical datasets.
• Ability to independently identify system problems and solutions.

Qualifications

Desire to be a member of a fast-growing team with evolving priorities.