Position: Software Engineer Location: New York, NY Site: Hybrid, On-site 4 days/week, Remote 1 day/week Status: Permanent, Full Time Compensation: Negotiable, depending on qualifications Our client, a prop trading house, is a leading quantitative investment company focused on computer-driven trading in global financial markets. Their team of researchers, engineers, and financial industry professionals use sophisticated statistical models to analyze data and identify predictive signals to generate superior investment returns. Their investment teams each focus on their independent strategies while utilizing the firm's proprietary, state-of-the-art technology and data platform to optimize their alpha research. In this role, you will join the prop trading Core Technology team as a key player in building and scaling the company's central infrastructure, participating in greenfield projects as well as enhancing existing systems. As part of a small, focused team, you will report directly to the Co-CTOs and will collaborate closely with team members and end users, having an immediate firmwide impact and gaining exposure to all areas of the firm such as data, research, operations, and risk. Joining this prop trading house offers a unique opportunity to work at the forefront of systematic trading, where innovation and quantitative analysis intersect. They are passionate about implementing scientific and mathematical methods to explore and solve problems in the global financial markets. Responsibilities:
- Develop efficient, scalable data and research infrastructure.
- Implement robust workflows for processing structured and unstructured financial datasets
- Contribute to internal microservice-based infrastructure platform.
- Develop web-based tools for internal teams and users.
Qualifications:
- Undergraduate degree in CS, EE, or related field.
- Two years of professional experience in software engineering.
- Programming experience in Python (relational databases and SQL a plus)
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