Python Developer – Remote Contract

Job Description

We are seeking a talented and passionate Python developer / ops to join our growing team within the Quantitative Management Division.
This role is ideal for developers who are passionate about building high-performance, observable systems, eager to learn in a collaborative environment, and excited to work in small, dynamic team. You’ll have opportunities to take initiative, lead projects, and grow both technically and professionally.

This position is suited for junior to mid-senior developers who are confident in their technical abilities and eager to make an impact regardless of career stage.

As part of our engineering team, you will collaborate with experienced developers to build and maintain our trading platform, develop new systems and APIs, and expose them to our trading and data teams. Being part of a small, rapidly growing team offers a rare opportunity to influence architectural decisions, contribute to process design, and see the platform evolve from inception to maturity.

Responsibilities:
Design and contribute to building a mission critical data platform for the purposes of live trading and simulation
Collaborate with systematic traders to deploy and monitor trading systems, improve risk management techniques and enhance portfolio performance through improving our systems and processes
Implement front office and back-office software components
Implement streaming data feeds and capture
Implement unit, system and integration tests
Help design and implement monitoring and dashboarding solutions
Help design, build and maintain our CI/CD pipelines
Collaborate with the data team on build out of the data management platform
Contribute to overall architecture
Education/Qualifications:
A degree in Computer science or a quantitative field with substantial programming exposure
Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
Very strong Python, with the focus on systems programming
Ability to analyze system performance, instrument code and apply optimizations where necessary
Excellent knowledge of software development fundamentals: git, CI/CD, Unit testing, code reviews, TDD, FDD, Jira. Or equivalent.
Strong Linux/Unix system, command and bash scripting
Exposure to container technologies
Good awareness of database technologies, with strong skills in at least one product/flavor. SQL or schemaless
Very good communication skills
Preferred:
Data stream processing, PCAP and messaging (e.g. kafka)
Orchestration, e.g. Docker compose, Swarm or Kubernets
Logging, monitoring, search, e.g. ELK or equivalent
Experience in trading platform implementation