Senior Python Software Engineer

Required Senior Python Software EngineerOur goal is to hire the best and the brightest. We value intellectual horsepower first and foremost, and people who demonstrate an outstanding talent. There is no roadmap to future success, so we need people who can help us build it.Technologists research, design, code, test and deploy firmwide platforms and tooling while working collaboratively with researchers.

Our environment is relaxed yet intellectually driven. We seek people who think in code and are motivated by being around like-minded people.The Role: Our group is responsible for building software enabling both the large-scale quantitative research operations that drive our platform and the production of our portfolio. The team is currently embarking on a multi-year journey to provide a powerful, scalable, and efficient platform to drive the firms next decade of growth.

We are looking for someone who can own some of the unique technical challenges inherent in the problem and who can bring solid experience and perspective to the team.Requirements: A successful candidate will possess:A minimum of 7 years of writing production-quality code in Python on Linux platformCandidate must be willing to learn C++.

Experience in C++ is a strong plusCandidate must have strong interest and motivation to work with machine learning, deep learning, backtesting platform design and development technologies. Prior experience is not required but will be considered as a strong plus.Strong understanding and experience with Linux system programming fundamentalsAbility to develop large-scale, distributed systemsStrong understanding of data structures, algorithms, high-performance application design, and concurrency patterns.Self-motivated and able to work independently with minimal directionProficiency in EnglishAn outstanding candidate will also have experience with one or more of:Developing systems for managing and performing computation on large-scale graph dataStreaming / dataflow systemsCandidates need not have prior experience in financial services.This position is open to all candidates.