Senior Quant Developer — Greenfield Trading Infra

Paragon Alpha - Hedge Fund Talent Business; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Paragon Alpha - Hedge Fund Talent Business in New York seeks a Senior Quantitative Developer to build the team’s trading and research infrastructure from the ground up, owning the technology stack and working directly with an experienced PM.

You will design and implement robust pipelines for research data, portfolio construction, execution systems, and workflow automation, using Python, SQL, AWS, Airflow and Pandas, with significant autonomy in a greenfield setup.

Qualifications

• Experience in systematic equities, electronic trading or closely related environment.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals.
• Ability to operate autonomously in a high-sophistication setting.

Responsibilities

• Build research data pipelines and infrastructure.
• Develop portfolio construction and optimisation tools.
• Create execution and trading systems.
• Implement workflow orchestration and automation.
• Provide monitoring, reporting and production support.

Skills

Software engineering fundamentals

Quantitative finance background

Autonomy

Tools

Python

SQL

AWS

Airflow

Pandas

Job description

Paragon Alpha - Hedge Fund Talent Business in New York seeks a Senior Quantitative Developer to build the team’s trading and research infrastructure from the ground up, owning the technology stack and working directly with an experienced PM.

You will design and implement robust pipelines for research data, portfolio construction, execution systems, and workflow automation, using Python, SQL, AWS, Airflow and Pandas, with significant autonomy in a greenfield setup.