Software Engineer - Hedge Fund Front Office

Our client is a Global Hedge Fund that is looking for a Software Engineer to assist a Portfolio Manager in their London office. The ideal candidate will be responsible for developing high-quality applications and passionate about data and about building efficient pipelines for data processing as part of an investment team They will also be responsible for designing and implementing testable and scalable code and advising the Portfolio Manager on the best solutions to solve the problems.

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The applications will aid the Implementation of Trading Strategies, support portfolio construction, and support portfolio decision-making. You will be supporting a single Portfolio Manager, who trades a range of asset classes, with support from a wider engineering team across the whole business.

Responsibilities

• Develop quality software and applications
• Design highly scalable, testable code
• Develop workflows in technology, analysis and data.
• Collaboratively develop data platform tools for use in investment thesis generation and testing
• Build infrastructure solutions for data pipelines at various scales
• Design and implement high-performing and robust libraries of re-usable tools for utilisation in research processes
• Design, maintain and monitor automated quantitative screening of investment strategies

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Excellent Python and data science libraries (Pandas, NumPy) skills
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Applied Maths or a related Quantitative field
• Experience working with a variety of data storage and manipulation tools such as SQL, Pandas, Elasticsearch & Kibana, Snowflake
• Experience with cloud, container and microservice infrastructures (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, AWS, GCP)