Senior Quantitative 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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💰 $97,000 - $154,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
AWSCloudJavaLinuxPythonSQL
About the role
- Embedded within quantitative research teams and partner with investment teams on projects including portfolio construction, risk management, and alpha research
- Contribute to build high quality, robust, and efficient analytical software solutions to improve investment processes
- Develop, run, and support various Quantitative Tools in cloud environment and communicate with customers
- Lead/own one or more modules of a research project through the entire software development lifecycle applying a full-stack implementation
- Add scale, reliability, and repeatability to research through software development standard methodologies
- Assist Research teams in developing new models and products
- Apply sophisticated analytics and quantitative concepts to support investment needs and develop new solutions
- Collaborate with multiple partners and adapt to fast paced competing requirements
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree (or above) in a quantitative or computational field such as Statistics, Computer Science or Applied Mathematics
- 5+ years of experience in complex software development and working with investment professionals
- Good understanding and implementation of software excellence concepts (Reliability, Extendibility, Resiliency, Flexibility, Pluggability, Intuitive Problem Solving, Risk mitigation, Technical debt, Scope, estimation, quality, CI/CD, Unit testing, Functional testing, Load testing, Parallel Processing, Resource Synchronization, Performance, Monitoring, Alerts, Logging, Tracing, Observability, Supportability etc.)
- Experience on Analytical/Software Engineering skills including Python, Shell Scripts, Java, SQL and Linux
- Experience in implementation of a research project through the entire software development lifecycle applying a full-stack implementation
- Experience with AWS cloud environment development and deployment is a plus
- Good understanding of quantitative techniques and methods, statistics, and econometrics – including probability, linear regression, and time series data analysis
- Good experience in either equities, fixed income, or alternative asset classes
- Consistent track record in hands-on ‘development’ of complex software solutions
- Ability to effectively connect with multiple partners, including fundamental and quantitative researchers, divisional partners
- Thrive in working with fast paced competing requirements and effectively delivering business needs
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
- potential bonus or other variable compensation (depending on position and eligibility)
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Hard skills
software developmentquantitative analysisPythonShell ScriptsJavaSQLLinuxfull-stack implementationCI/CDunit testing
Soft skills
problem solvingcommunicationcollaborationadaptabilitystakeholder engagementtime managementleadershipcritical thinkingflexibilityresilience