Software Developer – Backend and Distributed Systems

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

Team: Data Products

Location(s): London, Montreal or Singapore

Position Overview:

Squarepoint is seeking an experienced Software Developers with robust technical knowledge to join one of our backend system teams. The successful candidate will be an integral part of a team responsible for managing internal backend services, frameworks, and platforms utilized by quants, traders, and other development teams. With extensive multi-year roadmaps, the team is charged with creating versatile, scalable, and well-architected platforms capable of accommodating future feature integrations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable, tested, production-grade distributed systems.
• Foster close collaboration and communication with investment stakeholders and other tech groups.
• Assume full ownership for the systems developed by you and your team.
• Provide support and troubleshoot live production systems.
• Engage in all stages of the software lifecycle, from gathering requirements all the way through to production support.
• Comfortable working with and/or picking up our diverse technology stack; Rust, Python, C++, K8s and more

Required Qualifications:

• • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
  • Minimum of 6 years full-time software development experience.
  • Proficiency in C++
  • Desire to work with or previous experience in Rust
  • Hands-on experience implementing Docker/Kubernetes microservices in a production environment.
  • Experience with highly available distributed systems and/or working with large datasets.
  • Experience supporting and monitoring large production systems.
  • Excellent communication skills with comfort in directly interacting with stakeholders.
  • Familiarity with a Linux environment and version control software.
  • Experience working with and designing CI/CD pipelines.

Nice to have:

• Working experience on building and maintaining proprietary software platforms
• Hands-on experience with Google Cloud/AWS.
• Hands-on experience with Python