Selby Jennings is working with a leading hedge fund in New York City. They are worldwide leader in finance that uses next-generation technology and alpha- driven strategies to transform the global economy. They tackle some of the toughest problems in the industry by pushing themselves to be the best. They offer demanding work for the brightest minds, and
wouldn't have it any other way.
They are looking to bring exception software engineers in their Equities Quantative Research team which provides portfolio construction, risk management, and execution services for their equities business. The Engineering team is
responsible for providing consistent, highly scaled services, environments, curated datasets, and libraries, to deliver a robust platform upon which users from several key Citadel businesses can efficiently research, trade, and run analytics.
By building analysis tools into a common platform, we empower our colleagues to work more effectively
and to easily share their research and collaborate on ideas. In addition to providing shared frameworks,
we also help to make research and ideas production-ready and scalable, so they can be applied in their systematic trading environment.
Responsibilities:
- The Research Engineering team is responsible for research systems and productivity across the entire EQR model stack (from data analysis to portfolio construction and trade optimization):
- Build a unified system that allows EQR's researchers to access and look at data, and to build, fit, and backtest models in a production-ready environment
- Work directly with the researchers and traders to identify pain points to resolve and new functionality required to support modeling efforts
Qualifications:
- BS or MS in a relevant and highly-technical field (computer science, math, physics, etc.)
- 4-6 years professional experience (finance industry experience not required), open to candidates coming from big tech or fintech startups!
- Strong Python development skills required, additional experience with C++ or KDB/Q preferred
- Strong interest in the research process and understanding business needs
- Ability to own end to end engineering processes
- Previous experience building things from 0-1, scratch or end to end.
- Commercial mindset and understanding of how your work impacts the business.
