Product Software Engineer

Remotedxb; Dubai; On-site; AED 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Planting is seeking a software scientist to turn research into commercial products and deliver robust features for finance and scientific analysis. You will collaborate with the product team to define features, write design docs, and ensure user-focused implementations.

Responsibilities include building high-performance code, developing demonstration use-cases, and addressing system limitations across quantitative domains such as financial analysis and physics simulation.

Qualifications

• Experience turning research software into commercial products.
• Applied mathematical modeling in finance or scientific applications.
• Experience in collaborative commercial software environments (CI/CD, testing, code reviews).
• Strong foundation in computer science algorithms and data structures.
• Proficiency in Julia, Rust, OCaml, Clojure, C++, or Haskell.
• Experience with profiling and performance optimization.
• Advanced degree in Mathematics, Computer Science, or Statistics.

Responsibilities

• Work with the product team to define new features
• Define implementation strategies and collaborate on implementation
• Deliver features with a user-oriented mindset
• Write design documents for complex problems
• Write clean and performant code
• Develop use-case demos to demonstrate system strengths
• Implement applications from quantitative domains like financial analysis and physics simulation
• Identify product limitations and help close gaps

Skills

Mathematical modeling

Algorithms & DS

Profiling & optimization

CI/CD & testing

Programming languages

Education

Advanced degree in Mathematics, CS, or Statistics

Job description

Responsibilities

• Work with the product team to define new features
• Define implementation strategies and collaborate on implementation
• Deliver features with a user-oriented mindset
• Write design documents for complex problems
• Write clean and performant code
• Develop use-case demos to demonstrate system strengths
• Implement applications from quantitative domains like financial analysis and physics simulation
• Identify product limitations and help close gaps

Requirements

• Experience turning research software into commercial products
• Applied mathematical modeling in finance or scientific applications
• Experience in collaborative commercial software environments (CI/CD, testing, code reviews)
• Strong foundation in computer science algorithms and data structures
• Proficiency in Julia, Rust, OCaml, Clojure, C++, or Haskell
• Experience with profiling and performance optimization
• Advanced degree in Mathematics, Computer Science, or Statistics

About the Company

Planting is building a system that represents domain knowledge as modular probabilistic models, making analysis rigorous and transparent. The system is used in finance and scientific research, ranging from equity valuation to particle physics.