Role
Quant Hedge Fund seeks an entry-level data engineer to build software that provides financial data to the trading teams. You will be exposed to a wide variety of data, ranging from tick-by-tick data for high-frequency trading to large alternative data sets to event-based data. You should be able to put yourself into a traders’ or researchers’ shoes and design access patterns that empower the user.
You will work closely with traders, quantitative researchers, other developers, and data vendors so strong communication skills are a must.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or Applied Math from a top tier school, or
- Bachelor’s degree in another field AND 3+ years of data engineering experience in a buy-side financial firm
- Strong communication skills.
- Excellent Python skills, including experience with Jupyter notebooks, pandas, and numpy
Preferred Skills:
- Knowledge of containerization
- Distributed computations using Dask
- Cloud environments/deployments (AWS)
- Experience working on quantitative finance projects