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Confidential
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Confidential | Hong Kong or Paris | ONSITE
We're a small development team building a cross-asset quantitative investment fund.
We just started a month ago and we are writing the entire software stack for data management, research simulation, automated trading and cash management.
We are backed by a big player from the finance industry.
Team profile:
• Background: we worked at hedge funds and startups
• Technical stack: AWS, Linux, Python, PostgreSQL, Pandas, Puppet, Terraform
• Practices: SCRUM, document, automate & test (almost) everything, debt management
People we are looking for:
• Team players - no cowboys!
• Smart, technical, passionate, finance background, dedicated
We are looking for 3 candidate profiles:
• Data
•• Understands various financial instruments (equities, futures, fixed income, FX, derivatives, swaps)
•• Experience with financial data lifecycle in production
•• Support researchers in understanding financial data and develop trading models
• Development
•• Software engineers with strong Python background
•• Pandas experience is a huge bonus
• Infrastructure
•• No manual deployment, everything must be automated with Terraform & Puppet
•• Understands developers constraints