Quant Developer - Equities - New York

Quant Developer (Python) - new Equities team

What's involved ?

A new team within a large and very high calibre hedge fund is building out a suite of medium frequency equity strategies. They team apply rigorous methods to test investment hypotheses and design quantitative computer-driven trading models across equity markets. They need to hire a new member of the team to help build out their research, data and trading systems. It's a really high calibre team with lots of experience and lots of drive to be the best.

Who are you ?

You are based in New York or happy to relocate. You've probably worked within a quant trading environment so you understand the trade off between time to market and quality software engineering. You've either hit a ceiling in your current role or the projects that you are working on are not providing the challenge they once did. Either way it's time for a move. In addition to all the great qualities that make up a nice human being you should also posses the following :

3 years of professional coding experience (finance experience preferred, but not required)
Proficient in Python and/or other object-oriented programming and scripting
Strong understanding of data structures and algorithms
Demonstrable ability to write reusable, testable, and efficient code with attention to performance in memory use and execution time
Full stack experience and willingness, from greenfield to production, development to support, etc.
Experience in time series database and data engineering
Experience with git version control and code release cycle

Why me ?

Why not ? It's a really great team that are building new tools and need somebody like you. The projects are really interesting and you get to work with new, very talented people.

I have a few questions, how do I get in touch ?

You can book a quick call using the link below if you have any questions or alternatively you can send me an email at s.grainger@gslsearch.com