Overview:
Tower Research Ventures (TRV) is the venture arm of Tower Research Capital. TRV is hiring a Founding Software Engineer to help scale TRV’s incubation effort. The role will support TRV incubations and TRV portfolio companies with any and all engineering needs required to succeed.
Responsibilities:
- Act as a ‘zero to one’ engineer on a wide variety of startups.
- Scope the technical feasibility of projects that TRV decides to start/invest in.
- Be responsible for building a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) until we hire a dedicated team for the company.
- Drive the recruiting and interview process for hiring this dedicated team and handle the offloading of your code.
- Once we have sufficient resources dedicated to the company, you will begin the process again on a new company, continue working on the previous one, or do project based work for our portfolio companies until we have a new incubation.
- Other responsibilities may include helping TRV evaluate startups, source companies, and write blog content.
Qualifications:
- A bachelor’s or master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Strong technical background with 6+ years of full-time engineering experience (Backend or ML/AI experience preferred).
- Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines and MLOps for automating model deployments.
- Skilled in using Linux, SQL, Git, and BASH scripting.
- Strong knowledge of Python (Pytorch/Tensorflow).
- Prior experience designing and implementing sequence and time series models is a plus.
- The ability to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
Anticipated annual base salary range $175,000 - $250,000, plus eligible for discretionary bonus.
Benefits:
Tower’s headquarters are in FiDi, the heart of downtown Manhattan, at the historic Equitable Building. While we work hard, Tower’s cubicle-free workplace, jeans-clad workforce, and well-stocked kitchens reflect the value the firm places on quality of life. Benefits include:
- 401(k) with company matching
- 5 weeks of paid vacation per year plus 11 paid holidays
- Free breakfast, lunch, and snacks on a daily basis
- Reimbursement for health and wellness expenses
- Free events and workshops
- Donation matching program
Tower Research Capital is an equal opportunity employer.
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Founded in 1998 by Mark Gorton, Tower Research Capital is a trading and technology company that has built some of the fastest, most sophisticated electronic trading platforms in the world.
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