Our client is seeking a Software Engineer to work in their Chicago office. The ideal candidate will be helping to grow the quantitative trading business, working closely with the research team in cultivating and modelling high quality data, to improve access to and usability of unstructured and semi-structured data sources.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for the design, development and deployment of new and existing components pertaining to research and trading.
- Responsible for enhancing and extending the infrastructure and underlying libraries that make up the platform.
- Communicate and collaborate with the research and trading teams to design and deliver innovative and high quality solutions.
- Provide day-to-day support for applications and the underlying infrastructure
Requirements:
- 2-7 years software development experience in a role where Python or Javascript is used
- AWS or GCE deployment experience
- Expertise in nodejs, a testing framework, and an automation tool (such as selenium)
- Knowledge of Unix scripting
- Comfort ingesting new web APIs
- Event-driven, asynchronous socket programming
- Experience in functional programming and full stack software development.
- Very strong communication skills in English, both written and verbal.
- Ability to demonstrate prior delivery in a demanding and fast paced environment
Experience
- Containerization tools such as Docker
- Software development experience in C++.
- Experience working with quantitative researchers.
- Experience of working with enterprise systems in a financial firm.
