Quantitative Trading Systems Engineer

Massachusetts Financial Services Company; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 96,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Incentive bonus

15% retirement contribution

Education assistance

Tuition reimbursement

Generous leave

Health plans with HSA

Wellness programs

Job summary

Massachusetts Financial Services Company (MFS) is seeking a Quantitative Trading Developer in Boston. You will turn research, models, and analytics into reliable production systems, focusing on integrating new logic and datasets into the platform, building scalable services and pipelines, and improving code quality and maintainability.

You will closely collaborate with traders, researchers, and technology partners to deliver practical solutions, while leveraging strong Python skills and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or another technical discipline.
• 4+ years of producing production software in data-intensive or quantitative environments.
• Strong Python software engineering skills focused on maintainable applications.
• Good understanding of software design, testing, packaging, version control, and CI/CD.
• Experience building or supporting REST APIs and working with SQL, Unix/Linux, Git, and Docker.
• Experience designing systems that process large structured and unstructured datasets.
• KDB+/Q, KX Insights, and Azure are advantageous; strong learners encouraged to apply.
• Experience in financial markets, especially equity or fixed income trading, is useful but not essential.
• Ability to work independently and communicate effectively with technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Turn research models and analytics into production-ready systems.
• Design architecture to integrate new models and datasets into the platform.
• Build and maintain scalable data pipelines, APIs, and services for trading analytics.
• Improve resilience of production services, including REST APIs, dependencies, and fallback logic.
• Develop data-quality controls, monitoring, and alerting across datasets.
• Identify opportunities to automate manual trading analytics and execution workflows.
• Build testing frameworks and contribute to code reviews, deployment, and CI/CD.
• Improve codebase structure and maintainability as the platform scales.
• Collaborate with traders, researchers and tech partners to deliver practical solutions.

Skills

Python programming

Troubleshooting and debugging

Independent work

Communication and collaboration

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

REST APIs

SQL

Unix/Linux

Git

Docker

KDB+/Q

Azure

Job description

Massachusetts Financial Services Company (MFS) is seeking a Quantitative Trading Developer in Boston. You will turn research, models, and analytics into reliable production systems, focusing on integrating new logic and datasets into the platform, building scalable services and pipelines, and improving code quality and maintainability.

You will closely collaborate with traders, researchers, and technology partners to deliver practical solutions, while leveraging strong Python skills and