Software Developer – Data Products and Services

Squarepoint is a global investment management firm that utilizes a diversified portfolio of systematic and quantitative strategies across financial markets that seeks to achieve high quality, uncorrelated returns for our clients. We have deep expertise in trading, technology and operations and attribute our success to rigorous scientific research. As a technology and data-driven firm, we design and build our own cutting-edge systems, from high performance trading platforms to large scale data analysis and compute farms. With offices around the globe, we emphasize true, global collaboration by aligning our investment, technology, and operations teams functionally around the world.

Role: Software Developer – Data Products and Services

Team: Data Products and Services

Department: Development

Location: London, Montreal, Singapore, Bangalore

The Data Products and Services team uses some of the most cutting-edge technologies and cloud offerings to design, build and maintain machine learning frameworks, data science tools, microservices, web applications and other data driven products. We actively seek to work with the latest technologies to improve our tech stack, knowledge, and existing processes. We collaborate closely with investment teams to deliver on business goals and priorities.

Position Overview:

• Work with stakeholders across the business to understand the challenges faced, gather requirements, and collect documentation
• Build and maintain scalable, production grade backend applications using Python as well as frontend web applications using React
• Take ownership of the products you and your team work on to ensure continued support and improvements

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related subject
• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Proficiency in Python and web development
• Experience with relational databases and document stores
• Proven track record of owning or working on end-to-end full-stack applications
• Excellent communication skills
• Willingness to pick up and learn new technologies and frameworks

Nice to have:

• Rust is a nice to have
• Experience with highly available distributed systems
• Experience with Javascript/React JS Frontend
• Experience working with large datasets