skillventory - A Leading Talent Research Firm

Principal Quant Developer

skillventory - A Leading Talent Research Firm

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: BostonMassachusettsNew JerseyUnited States

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Salary

💰 $107,000 - $216,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • contribute to a dynamic and fast-paced development team supporting researchers in prototyping and delivering new systematic investment strategies
  • provide high impact solutions on various projects including alpha research, portfolio construction, and risk management
  • committed to constructing high-quality, scalable, robust, resilient and efficient analytical and software solutions that propel investment processes forward

Requirements

  • A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Financial Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Mathematics, Physics, Statistics, Engineering, or a closely related field
  • six (6) years of experience as a Senior Quant Developer or similar role
  • Alternatively, a Master's degree (or equivalent foreign education) in the same fields, accompanied by four (4) years of experience as a Lead Quantitative Development or similar role
  • Expert in Python with experience across the development stack (full stack)
  • Exposure to object-oriented programming (OOP) and design patterns
  • Experience in at least one unit testing framework and understanding of test-driven development (TDD) concepts and methodologies
  • Skilled in a range of database technologies: SQL (Oracle & Snowflake), NoSQL, Graph
  • Skilled in batch and API technologies: such as batch scheduling (using Autosys and Airflow) and creating REST APIs (using FAST API and Flask)
  • Proven ability to construct and manage robust data pipelines and event-driven workflows
  • Proven expertise in system design and cloud architecture on AWS, leveraging resources including Lambda, S3, EKS, and EC2
  • Experience in containerization with Docker and orchestration with Kubernetes
  • Implement CI/CD pipelines (using Linux and Jenkins), code versioning using GitHub
  • Familiarity with experiment tracking and model versioning tools (e.g., MLflow)
Benefits
  • comprehensive health care coverage and emotional well-being support
  • market-leading retirement
  • generous paid time off and parental leave
  • charitable giving employee match program
  • educational assistance including student loan repayment, tuition reimbursement, and learning resources to develop your career
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
Pythonobject-oriented programmingdesign patternsunit testingtest-driven developmentSQLNoSQLREST APIscloud architecturecontainerization
Soft Skills
collaborationproblem-solvinganalytical thinkingcommunicationadaptabilityattention to detailtime managementleadershipcreativitycritical thinking