Role Overview
Our group is responsible for building software enabling both the large-scale quantitative research operations that drive WorldQuant’s platform and the production of our portfolio. We are looking for someone who can own some of the unique technical challenges inherent in the problem and who can bring solid experience and perspective to the team.
About Worldquant
WorldQuant develops and deploys systematic financial strategies across a broad range of asset classes and global markets. We seek to produce high-quality predictive signals (alphas) through our proprietary research platform to employ financial strategies focused on market inefficiencies.
Key Responsibilities
- Research, design, code, test and deploy firmwide platforms and tooling
- Work collaboratively with researchers and portfolio managers
- Build software enabling large-scale quantitative research operations and portfolio production
Requirements & Eligibility
- A minimum of 7 years of writing production-quality code in C++ on Linux platform
- Strong understanding and experience with Linux system programming fundamentals
- Ability to develop large-scale, distributed systems
- Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, high-performance application design, and concurrency patterns.
- Self-motivated and able to work independently with minimal direction
- Proficiency in English
Required Skills & Tech
C++LinuxPythonDistributed Systems