Software Engineer

About the Role

• Critical hire with high visibility.
• Join a growing team at an elite hedge fund.
• Develop tools to automate and monitor the firm's trading-related workflow for enhanced efficiency, robustness, and scalability.
• Develop and improve the company's in-house order management system, market data interfaces, and internal user interfaces.
• Work in a team environment and interact with traders, mid-office, data team, admin team, and outside brokers.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with software developers and quantitative researchers to design and build efficient and scalable workflows for data processing and retrieval.
• Collaborate closely with colleagues in technology to ensure consistency across the Firm and maximize the re-use of core software components.
• Assist in building and maintaining automated solutions for the company's core data infrastructure, trade processing, and reporting.
• Assume strong ownership of projects throughout their full production deployment life cycle.
• Improve documentation and procedures for end-user, quant, and development teams.
• Meaningfully contribute to the company's overall data strategy.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Proficient in Python and SQL for writing software, processing data, performing calculations, and generating reports.
• Ability to process and manipulate large volumes of data.
• Hands-on individual with the ability to work collaboratively.
• Strong written/verbal communication, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
• Highly motivated and intellectually curious individual with a keen eye for automation.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and tasks.
• Well-organized, proactive, resourceful, able to handle a fast-paced environment, question the status quo, accountable, and possesses an ownership mindset.

Qualifications

• Experience in the financial industry is a plus but not an absolute requirement.