Role and Responsibilities

We are seeking an experienced Quantitative Developer with a strong software engineering background to join our rapidly growing team to help manage and grow a suite of systematic strategies that trades tens of billions of dollars a month.

You will:

• Play a major role in helping to design, implement, maintain, and support the software that powers our proprietary trading strategies, including but not limited to the trading algorithms, trading systems, exchange connectivity, and
• Interact with traders along with other technical team members to deeply understand the core problems we are trying to solve and brainstorm solutions. Identify, refactor, and optimize hot code paths to minimize latency and maximize maintainability, observability, and reliability.
• Apply modern software engineering best practices to continually improve the codebase.
• Help troubleshoot or explain intricate system details to traders as needed.
• Review code in pull requests for fellow team members to provide feedback and get context on other projects.

As a result, you will have a direct impact on P&L and commensurately share in the upside of the firm.

Expectations

The ideal candidate:

• Displays a positive mindset with high energy and a can-do attitude.
• Exhibits practical, iterative, and creative problem solving with a natural preference towards simplicity whenever possible in solutions, constantly keeping PnL as the north star when making technical decisions.
• Pragmatically balances between delivering clean, readable, maintainable code and rapidly deploying new functionality to take advantage of market opportunities.
• Understands the fundamentals of data structures and algorithms.
• Asks good questions if requirements are unclear, and respectfully knows when and how to push back on out of scope features or functionality requests.
• Takes pride in one’s own work and delivers reliable, performant software.
• Provides suggestions for improvements.
• Enjoys working with team members to teach and learn together.
• Uses a data-backed approach to decision making and communicating ideas.
• Clearly communicates how data implies a particular conclusion; considers and explains alternative explanations for what the data shows.
• Loves to reflect on challenges and improve processes.
• Possesses humility and expresses kindness to self and others.

Qualifications

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional experience working in a software engineering role, ideally in either Python, Rust, and/or C++.
• Familiarity with Rust or pre-existing demonstrable (via code) excitement to learn Rust.
• Ability to write clean, easily understood, performant code and documentation.
• Proficient in Git and GitHub (Pull Request) workflows.
• Strong troubleshooting, debugging, and problem solving skills.
• Eagerness to solve challenging, interesting problems.
• Refined taste in identifying the best solution from a variety of tradeoffs and elegance in explaining the rationale behind solutions and tradeoffs.
• Excellent attention to detail and ability to manage complexity into simplicity.
• Enthusiasm and interest in trading in the cryptocurrency industry.
• A degree in a technical field of study.
• Familiarity with a variety of connectivity protocols including but not limited to HTTP, WebSockets, and FIX.

Nice to Haves

• Professional experience in a quantitative trading firm (either tradfi or crypto native).
• Computer Science degree.