Quantitative Developer

About this role

Job Responsibilities

A highly collaborative, fast-growing team, Point72 Internal Alpha Capture (IAC) is developing scalable quantitative equity trading signals that leverage rigorous research, state-of-the-art machine learning methods, a broad range of public and proprietary data sources, and unparalleled computing power.

You will gain exposure to a variety of activities, which may include:

• Developing automated equities trading applications and real-time analytics

• Optimizing data ETL pipelines, persistent / in-memory caches and SQL databases

• Work alongside quant researchers developing quant signals.

• Improving signal research and trading tools infrastructure

Desirable Candidates

• Undergraduate or higher degree in computer science, machine learning, or other quantitative discipline

• 5+ years of experience at a hedge fund, major investment bank, or quantitative trading firm

• Strong programming experience in Python with production-level coding quality

• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, particularly Docker

• Experience with Unix environment and shell scripting

• Knowledge of profiling (e.g. VisualVM, async-profiler) and code optimization is a plus

• Knowledge of statistics and machine learning is a plus

• Willing to take ownership of his/her work, working both independently and within a small team

• Prior experience in the financial services industry is a plus

• Commitment to the highest ethical standards