Sr Software Engineer (Quant Developer)

Senior Quant Developer to build models and sophisticated systems in partnership with the Quantitative Research Analysts (Quants). You will take ownership for the full development cycle – from requirement gathering to the delivery of the end product. Does this sound like your passion? We encourage you to apply!

This is a hands-on, full development lifecycle role which provides an opportunity to solve complex business, logic, data and technical challenges.

Responsibilities:

• Expect you to be agile, to lead and to think creatively.
• Innovate and improve proprietary models and algorithms; design and deliver in terms of high reliability, resiliency and scalability.
• Build large-scale distributed computing programs to generate analytics and present results in user-friendly visualization.
• Demonstrates outstanding awareness of the complexities of the domain – Portfolio Management, Quantitative Research, Risk, etc.
• Converses in multiple technologies with the ability to learn new technologies.
• Demonstrates experience in automated testing and techniques.
• Stays abreast of industry trends and technologies and knows when and how to apply them appropriately.
• Effectively formulates strategy and successfully executes against it.
• Capable of leading software development projects with technical and organizational complexity.

Required Qualifications:

• This is a Sr Software Engineer first and foremost. Candidate must desire to be a Software Engineer (Not a Quant Analyst, Not a Data Scientist).
• Experience as a Quant Developer or Software Engineer with experience working WITH Quants.
• Experienced knowledge in multiple modern programming language(s) and be willing and open to work with multiple languages - Python, R, Java, C/C++.
• Willingness and excitement to learn unfamiliar quantitative subjects or tools/technologies, as required on the job.
• Proficiency in coding, validated interest in translating algorithms and models into production quality code.

Candidate will start remotely but will be required to have a weekly presence in 2021 post COVID in Baltimore. Eventual relocation will be required for non-local candidates. Relocation assistance will be provided.