What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Quantitative Developer position at Arrowstreet Capital?
Role Summary
We are looking for an experienced Quant Developer with Python experience , to join our Research group. We are a collaborative, data-driven, intellectually rigorous team responsible for coming up with investment ideas, codifying those ideas into signals, back-testing the signals, and producing return, risk and trading cost forecasts based on the signals to drive trading decisions. We maintain a friendly, team-oriented environment and place a high value on professionalism, attitude and initiative.
Our development team within Research is responsible for the tools, APIs, libraries and software engineering techniques to support faster generation, evaluation and productionization of investment ideas.
As a Quantitative Developer, you will help build our next-generation Research data platform leveraging open-source, cloud and distributed computing technologies. You will work on high-impact projects that are quickly adopted and drive change across the team.
Responsibilities :
- Writing and maintaining Python libraries that supports the investment research production processes
- Designing and creating software to enhance our data science technology stack
- Design and implement financial data APIs and numerical APIs
- Apply cloud and distributed computing technologies
- Implementing performance improvements in our data analysis and numerical programming code
- Running POCs to evaluate new technologies and libraries in the PyData ecosystem
- Working with software engineers to design feeds for new data sources from third-party vendors
- Propose and lead implementations of major components or features in our data science platform
- Mentor, train and provide technical guidance to junior team members in design and coding standards
- Other projects based on experience and interest.
Qualifications :
In addition, experience with any of the following would be valuable :
Arrowstreet Capital is a Boston-based systematic investment firm that manages global equity portfolios for institutional investors around the world.
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