Quantitative Software Engineer

Financial Services company
Vienna, Austria
Considering candidates from:
Europe and Austria
Work arrangement: Onsite
Industry: Financial Services
Language: English
Level: Middle
Required experience: 4+ years
Relocation: Paid
Visa support: Provided
Size: 11 - 50 employees

Quantitative Software Engineer

Financial Services company
Vienna, Austria
Our client is a technology-led hedge fund founded in 2015, passionate about collecting, cleaning, transforming, and storing data to feed trading strategies. Its data driven trading models utilize a variety of open-source technologies and multiple data sources, from vendor APIs to fleet of web crawlers running 24/7, to make trading decisions in the global markets. The firm manages assets on behalf of a diverse range of clients including pension plans, insurance companies, financial institutions, family offices, qualified individual investors, among others.
Tasks:
The role involves building our research platform and trading strategies

  • Design for the evolving scale and scope of the quantitative research program 
  • Build high-performance platforms for quantitative research 
  • Develop, deploy, and monitor models that trade in financial markets 
  • Write documentation and conduct code reviews 
  • Promote the best coding practices firm-wide 
Must-have:
  • Extensive software development experience in a highly data-driven industry like finance, tech, or machine learning
  • The ability to collaborate across teams and support multiple projects is a must
Nice-to-have:

Benefits and conditions:
  • Trial period: 1 month
Interview process:
  1. Intro call with Toughbyte
  2. Call with CK
  3. Coderbytes challenge 
  4. Call with Joren
  5. Call with Claire