WorldQuant develops and deploys systematic financial strategies across a broad range of asset classes and global markets. We seek to produce high-quality predictive signals (alphas) through our proprietary research platform to employ financial strategies focused on market inefficiencies. Our teams work collaboratively to drive the production of alphas and financial strategies – the foundation of a balanced, global investment platform.
WorldQuant is built on a culture that pairs academic sensibility with accountability for results. Employees are encouraged to think openly about problems, balancing intellectualism and practicality. Excellent ideas come from anyone, anywhere. Employees are encouraged to challenge conventional thinking and possess an attitude of continuous improvement.
Our goal is to hire the best and the brightest. We value intellectual horsepower first and foremost, and people who demonstrate an outstanding talent. There is no roadmap to future success, so we need people who can help us build it.
Technologists at WorldQuant research, design, code, test and deploy firmwide platforms and tooling while working collaboratively with researchers and portfolio managers. Our environment is relaxed yet intellectually driven. We seek people who think in code and are motivated by being around like-minded people.
The Role: Our group is looking for a seasoned Full Stack developer to work in a high performance business-embedded tech team. You will be building complex data pipelines and frameworks for strategy and performance analytics, and have the opportunity to drive the architecture and develop complex frontends which deliver a great user experience to Portfolio Managers and Researchers. A successful candidate will bring strong software engineering fundamentals and design / implementation principles, and ability to quickly acquire in-depth domain knowledge.
- 5+ years of Python experience
- Experience building Scalable and robust services
- Knowledge of React, Redux, TypeScript or related technologies
- Exposure to SQL, and OLAP/OLTP DBs
- Experience with CI/CD and Docker or containerized deployments
- Excellent debugging and problem solving
Advantage:
- Experience with Kubernetes or Distributed systems is a bug plus (dask, ray, Celery, Kafka, Cassandra)
- Experience with micro-services, monitoring, caching, data visualization, log collection and aggregation, search, queuing systems is a plus
- Experience with Cloud is a plus
- Finance experience is a plus
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