About the Role Quest Partners is seeking a Software Engineer to join our Technology team. You will take on a wide range of responsibilities and challenges across various internal initiatives. You will participate in an Agile framework, continuously improving and expanding platform capabilities. Projects can span from data pipeline building to building trading systems to helping automate performance reporting. Example Duties and Responsibilities:
- Work with large data sets, model database structures, develop tools, automation and process optimization to facilitate the accurate and timely production of critical reporting.
- Create dashboards for internal and external consumption for a variety of portfolio analytics and sales needs.Build technologies that bolster research & trading productivity.
- Expand the system to new markets and asset classes.
- Work on cross-functional teams across trading, quant, and development to troubleshoot and solve complex problems.
- Design software solutions that meet or excel beyond industry standards
- Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, and re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability.
- Build out infrastructure to support trading pipelines; data warehousing & containerization to drive the success of the business.
Experience:
- Bachelors in Computer Science or Computer Engineering or related field or equivalent experience; Advanced degrees welcome (Not open to 2025 or 2024 grads)
- 3+ years of experience building enterprise and scalable applications
- Passion for the financial markets and working with large amounts of data
- Strong experience with back-end OOP development
- Knowledge of Algorithms and Data Structures
- Familiarity with relational databases (SQL)
- Experience with version control systems and CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with data visualization tools (PowerBI, Tableau, etc.)
- Ability to adapt to new technologies/platforms
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Desired
- Experience with AWS or other cloud platforms
- Experience with Snowflake
- Experience with desktop technologies
- Experience with front-end technologies
Quest will not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies for this role or any others. The base range for this role is expected to be between $150,000 and $200,000. This does not include other aspects of compensation such as discretionary bonus and a competitive comprehensive benefits package. Actual compensation offered to a candidate will vary within the range above depending on factors such as qualifications, education, and skill level. By submitting the application, you are consenting to Quest Partners LLC using your mobile phone number for SMS messaging. About the Firm Quest is a quantitative investment advisor based in New York with over forty professionals and approximately $2.5 billion in assets under management as of May 31st, 2024. Quest was founded by Nigol Koulajian in March 2001 to pursue the development of specialized quantitative investment strategies with a focus on convexity. Quest's strategies seek to generate attractive absolute returns with significant positive skew while maintaining strong hedging characteristics particularly during tail events that may cause surprise losses in hedge fund and equity portfolios. The firm currently manages assets for some of the world's leading pension plans, family offices, fund-of-funds, foundations, and other institutional investors.