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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. Our teams work collaboratively to drive the production of alphas and financial strategies – the foundation of a balanced, global investment platform.
WorldQuant is built on a culture that pairs academic sensibility with accountability for results. Employees are encouraged to think openly about problems, balancing intellectualism and practicality. Excellent ideas come from anyone, anywhere. Employees are encouraged to challenge conventional thinking and possess an attitude of continuous improvement.
Our goal is to hire the best and the brightest. We value intellectual horsepower first and foremost, and people who demonstrate an outstanding talent. There is no roadmap to future success, so we need people who can help us build it.
Technologists at WorldQuant research, design, code, test and deploy projects while working collaboratively with researchers. Our environment is relaxed yet intellectually driven. We seek people who think in code and are motivated by being around like-minded people.
The Role: We are seeking an exceptionally talented engineer to join our team and work on WorldQuant's next-generation distributed post trade processing system that provides a real-time view into the firm's trades, positions, PNL and risk. Our system needs to process massive volumes of trade and market data in a latency sensitive manner with correctness, consistency and reliability in mind. We work in an agile environment, and participate in all aspects of SDE life-cycle from design, development, testing to deployment and support. As an engineer, you have a chance to work on various parts of this system, and get a first-hand working knowledge of how a trade moves from execution to settlement. Our system is continually evolving in terms of both scale as well as new business features.
What You’ll Bring:
- Strong working experience as a Java developer
- Solid understanding of streaming applications development
- Experience with Testing Frameworks
- Strong database experience - particularly with MySQL and PostgreSQL
- Ability to capture and understand requirements by working through and understanding how legacy code base (Perl/python) works in order to assess its limitations and build improved solutions
- Ability to prioritize complex operational issues during on-call support rotation
- Strong communication skills to work with development and the business teams
- Experience in Perl would be helpful. At a minimum, the ability to read and debug Perl code is required. Basic familiarity is acceptable if you can understand the processes. Writing new Perl code is not expected
- Experience in Python (basic support scripts for Java processes: light scripting, server startup, and process automation) is a plus
- Experience in Finance/Operations/SecMaster experience is a plus
What We Offer:
- Competitive and attractive compensation package with clear career road-map – where you feel challenged everyday
- We offer a strong culture of learning and development: training courses, library, speakers, share and learn events
- Learn from who sits next to you! Working in WQ you are surrounded by smart and talented people
- Employee resources groups with strong diversity and inclusion culture
- Premium Health Insurance and Employee Assistance Program
- Generous time-off policy, re-creation sabbatical leave (based on tenure), Trade Union benefits for staff and family
- Team building activities every month: Local engagement events, monthly team lunch – Employee clubs: football, ping-pong, badminton, yoga, running, PS5, movies, etc.
- Annual company trip and occasional global conferences – opportunity to travel and connect with our global teams
- Happy-hour with tea break, snacks and meals every day in the office!
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WorldQuant is a global quantitative asset management firm with over $7 billion in assets under management. Founded in 2007 by Igor Tulchinsky with the belief that talent is global, but opportunity is not, WorldQuant has more than 1,000 employees spread among 26 global offices. WorldQuant seeks to get to the future faster, guided by the principle that there are an infinite number of insights to discover. The firm develops and deploys investment strategies across a variety of asset classes in global markets. For more information on WorldQuant’s philosophy and culture, please visit www.worldquant.com.
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