Quantitative Trading & Research Platform Engineer

Capstone Search Advisors; Rowayton (CT); In loco; USD 90.000 - 130.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Fairfield County Hedge Fund is seeking an early-career developer to join the Quantitative Trading and Research Operations team. You will develop, maintain, and refactor code used in research and trading, focusing on reliability and maintainability in a production environment.

You will work with researchers, follow established processes, and interact with the Quality Assurance Committee. This role emphasizes hands-on development, troubleshooting, and collaboration.

Competenze

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field.
• Strong Python programming skills.
• Solid refactoring and code design experience.
• Familiarity with CI/CD processes.
• Comfortable using Unix command line.
• Experience with Git version control.
• Familiarity with SQL and enterprise DB structures.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Coursework in cybersecurity is a plus.
• Familiarity with cloud compute and general infrastructure design is a plus.
• Knowledge of R and MATLAB and familiarity with writing test cases is a plus.

Mansioni

• Partner with the Quantitative Strategies department to develop, maintain, and improve code supporting research and trading activities.
• Review, refactor, and update legacy programs to meet established coding standards and improve reliability, maintainability, and computational performance.
• Provide ongoing maintenance and support for both existing systems and newly developed tools.
• Develop and maintain test cases to validate code changes and help prevent errors and system failures.
• Follow established development and code review processes, working regularly with the QA Committee and incorporating feedback from senior leaders across Technology and Data.
• Analyze system financial and computational performance and execute trades.
• Support engineering initiatives related to trading system implementation, computational resource utilization, build and deployment processes, containerization, and evaluation of cloud computing.

Conoscenze

Python

Code refactoring

CI/CD concepts

Unix CLI

Communication

Troubleshooting

Collaboration

Cybersecurity coursework

Formazione

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Strumenti

Git

Unix

PowerShell

SQL

Descrizione del lavoro

Fairfield County Hedge Fund is seeking an early-career developer to join the Quantitative Trading and Research Operations team. You will develop, maintain, and refactor code used in research and trading, focusing on reliability and maintainability in a production environment.

You will work with researchers, follow established processes, and interact with the Quality Assurance Committee. This role emphasizes hands-on development, troubleshooting, and collaboration.