Viking Global Investors LP is a global investment firm founded in 1999. We manage more than $48 billion of capital for our investors across public equity, private equity, and credit and structured capital investment strategies. We have more than 275 employees and offices in Stamford, New York, Hong Kong, London, and San Francisco.
LOCATION: Stamford, CT (Hybrid - 3 days in office, 2 days remote)
JOB FUNCTION
We are seeking a full stack developer who will work closely with a team of engineers, product managers, and business users, with responsibility for developing and supporting our Performance & Risk analytics systems.
Primary responsibilities include:
- Join a team of engineers focused on development & maintenance of apps developed for Performance & Risk analytics.
- Partner with performance and risk analysts to understand, implement, and improve various analytics practices such as multifactor risk analysis, performance attribution, other related areas
- Develop, deploy, and support
- Dotnet Core applications with Angular frontend
- Python based services
- BI solutions to supplement vendor platforms
QUALIFICATIONS
A successful candidate must have:
- 7+ years of experience building software in an object-oriented language (C# preferred)/dynamic language (JavaScript/Python)
- Strong Proficiency in relational database technologies (SQL Server preferred)
- Experience working in a buy-side asset manager or other financial services firm
- Experience with web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Angular, React, NodeJS, Typescript, etc.)
- Priority on clean code and automated tests (TDD/BDD/Property based testing)
- Strong problem-solving skills/communication, a great attitude, and the ability to build strong working relationships
- Understanding of software design patterns and common anti-patterns
- Solid computer science fundamentals with awareness of fundamental data structures and usage techniques. Ability to reason about the usage and efficiency is strongly preferred.
- Comfort working independently through complexity in a fast-paced environment.
The ideal candidate may also have:
- Exposure & hands on experience in domain driven design/event sourcing/event driven/micro service-based architectures.
- Demonstrated enthusiasm for keeping up with new tools and techniques
- Exposure to Geneva/Accounting systems in hedge funds
- Experience in agile software development methodologies
Viking is an equal opportunity employer. Questions about your candidacy and requests for reasonable accommodation in the recruitment process should be directed to [email protected].
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What We Do
V iking Global Investors LP (“Viking”) is a global investment firm founded in 1999. We employ a fundamentals-driven investment approach to managing over $40 billion of capital across long/short, long-only, public/private hybrid and private-only strategies. Across our funds, our primary goal is to provide investors with best-in-class performance. We believe operational excellence is essential to our management of the capital with which we have been entrusted. We have approximately 240 employees, including 52 investment professionals, across five offices: Greenwich, New York, Hong Kong, London and San Francisco. We seek to attract people who exhibit our Firm’s core values of intellectual honesty, analytical rigor, continuous improvement, individual accountability and integrity. Viking is registered as an investment adviser with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
