What are the responsibilities and job description for the Hadoop & Spark Developer position at Susquehanna International Group, LLP?
Overview
The compliance technology team develops surveillance, monitoring and reporting tools for the compliance business community. This team is responsible for designing and developing tools for the oversight of SIG’s trading activities across all of our products, including options, equities, futures, fixed income, crypto currencies and many others. You’ll have the advantage of working in a non-siloed, collaborative meritocracy where you’ll have opportunity to solve problems that directly impact our business. We are looking for an experienced Software Developer to join this group.
In this role you will:
- Design and build new tools as well as enhancements to existing our surveillance and monitoring tools for the compliance business community
- Develop solutions using Hadoop, Spark, and HIVE/SQL
- Work on projects that require deep knowledge of Python and Spark and the ability to deliver custom solutions to big data in a performant manner
What you can expect from us:
Real Impact: By integrating sophisticated coding techniques with innovative engineering ideas, we design and optimize systems that can process massive amounts of data while still ensuring high performance and stability. You’ll see how your contributions towards developing and supporting leading-edge hardware and software technologies make a firm-wide impact that makes us all smarter, faster, and better.
Collaboration: You will partner closely with our Strategy Developers and Quantitative Researchers to translate complex trading problems into scalable and highly performant hardware solutions.
Growth: For many of our roles, we don’t expect you to have prior industry experience in proprietary trading or financial services to succeed at Susquehanna International Group. We’re looking for people who are naturally curious, relentless problem solvers, and have the desire to continuously innovate, learn, and grow.
Benefits: SIG offers a wide array of competitive employee perks & benefits.
What we’re looking for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related discipline or its foreign equivalent. Relevant experience can be substituted for education.
- At least six (6) years of progressive experience developing software applications using an object oriented language.
- Strong object-oriented design and implementation experience coupled with big data experience
- At least FIVE (5) years of recent hands-on experience Hadoop and Spark technologies
- Experience with HIVE/SQL is a strong plus
- Willingness and ability to work in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle
- A collaborative, team-oriented approach and an analytical mindset
- Ability to meet deadlines and work well under pressure in a fast-paced team environment
- Strong communication skills across multiple disciplines including technology, support and business teams
- Financial services or market knowledge is a plus
About SIGSIG is a global quantitative trading firm founded by a group of friends who share a passion for game theory and probabilistic thinking. We have incorporated this approach into our culture, where you will find relentless problem solvers within each of our core disciplines: Trading, Technology, and Quantitative Research. From offices around the world, our employees collaborate to make optimal decisions and are driven by the desire to achieve winning results together.
What we doWe are experts in trading essentially all listed financial products and asset classes, with a focus on derivatives trading. Through market making and market taking, we handle millions of trading transactions around the world every day, providing liquidity and ensuring competitive prices for buyers and sellers. While our presence in the market is broad, our trading desks are highly specialized, allowing for a deep understanding of unique drivers of each asset class.
SIG does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or search firms. Any resume or referral submitted in the absence of a signed agreement will become the property of SIG and no fee will be paid.
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