Senior Software Developer / Data Engineer - Python - Elite Data Development Group - Hedge Fund [...]

My client is an emergent Multi-Strategy Hedge Fund. Post onboarding a number of new Trading desks across both the Systematic HFT and Discretionary businesses they're now looking to hire an experienced Software Engineer / Data Engineer to work closely with Trading, Quant Research, and parallel Technology teams.

This is a fast-paced, collaborative and innovative environment, suited to individuals with an entrepreneurial spirit, able to work both autonomously and as part of a vibrant rapidly expanding group.

Focus of the role

Working closely with Quant Research to enable the ingestion and provision of large alternate data sets consisting of both structured and unstructured data, you would be responsible for the design, build and deployment of:

• Advanced automated and low-latency high throughput ETL & ELT data pipelines
• Data frameworks
• APIs to allow Trading, Research, Risk Management, et al, to access Data for pre and post trade activities from the Data Store

Candidate's suitable for this role, will ideally have

• 5-15 yrs' of blended exp. as both a Data Engineer and Software Engineer
• Advanced Python skills, inc. Data Analysis and ML libraries such as Pandas, NumPy, etc
• OO Python with expertise in Multiprocessing / Multithreading
• Solid SQL skills, experience with both SQL and NoSQL based DBs such as Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, etc.
• Cloud experience with any of the major vendors, with AWS preferred
• Experience with Snowflake / Redshift desirable not essential
• Experience with C#, C++ (or other traditional high performance OO languages) desirable but not essential

What you'll gain (Skills and Mobility)

• Develop intimate understanding of the mechanics of Buy Side Trading
• Develop thorough understanding of traditional and emergent Asset classes including Equities, Fixed Income, FX, Commodities, Digital Assets
• Mobility is strongly promoted by the Partners, so opportunities to move to other locations such as NAM, APAC, and other parts of Europe; previous candidates we've placed have moved internally to Quant Development, ML Development, and Tech Lead roles in Data.