Developer Python/C++

Who we are and what we do

We are a quantitative research company looking for predictive signals in the global financial markets.

We work in collaboration with a leading global electronic market maker.

We focus on research rather than on infrastructure. We combine the principles of one of the largest market makers in the world and our own unique strategy to reach new heights in the fintech world.

Our team is a balanced mix of senior-level experts with experience in international trading and asset management firms as well as talented ambitious graduates from top universities. Technical and financial backgrounds, excellent academic and work performance, an inquiring mind and creativity – these are the things uniting us.

The Position Developer

We are looking for a developer to help automate the work of our quantitative researchers. Having robust, scalable code which underpins the performance and reliability of the

components is vital to the success of the firm’s research. Major objectives are as follows:

• Automate workflow for researchers, streamline productionising and testing new models implemented by quants (mostly Python);
• Organise and support production code, checking dependencies, handling missing data, raising timely alerts and ensuring informative logging etc (mostly Python);
• Code review and contribution to research libraries (mostly C++). The role does not involve implementation of quant algorithms.

The right candidate will enjoy an opportunity to participate in building new technology from the beginning and in close contact with quant researchers. They will get to write software with access to a computer cluster currently containing 12,500 CPU’s, 330TB’s of memory, 34PB’s of usable storage and currently pushing around a terabit/sec of peak network throughput.

They will enter an environment where improvements can usually be made with great agility, where the results of those changes are both quickly visible and can make a large impact on the business.
 

Skills

- Understanding of the operational, maintenance, monitoring and support aspects of a business-critical system.

- Implementing software workflows / testing and deployment methodologies in an extremely agile environment.

- Ability to write user-facing code in Python.

- Competency in C++.

- At least intermediate level of English

About you

You will have a history of high academic achievement, with at least an undergraduate degree

(upper second class or better, or international equivalent) from a well-regarded educational establishment in Computer Science or a related technical field. Initially we are looking for one staff member with at least three years relevant hands on software development experience and we would also like to see some experience with system architecture and design.