A multi strat hedge fund are looking for a senior Software Engineer to help them build and implement a brand new data platform. This knowledge platform is the backbone of their investment strategies and is leveraged globally by researchers and traders trying to unlock insights via complex data sets.
Fun fact: The hiring manager was previously working in big tech and had never before worked in finance and has since been promoted multiple times and is leading this initiative. They are looking to replicate this through growth minded engineers. They push a technology first mentality and adopt open source modern tech standards.
Responsibilities:
- Partner with the front office investment teams to help them make sense of their data
- Implement the data platform across multiple strategies
- Design and built data pipelines from scratch
- Develop low latency reference data systems
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience in data driven software development
- Expertise in any of Java, Python or C++ - The platform is multi language
- Experience working with large volumes of data in a software engineering role
- Experience with reference data would be ideal
- Strong educational background
