
Principal Quant Developer
skillventory - A Leading Talent Research Firm
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Boston • Massachusetts • New Jersey • United 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