Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineers 

OCaml Experience

Jane Street Group, LLC has openings for Senior Software Engineers - multiple openings in New York, NY.

The position duties are as follows:  Develop software in OCaml as part of the trading and operational infrastructure for a proprietary trading company. Support traders and other users of the company’s technology infrastructure on both Linux and Windows platforms. Analyze and respond in real-time to problems arising from the firm’s technological infrastructure. Work in all parts of the software lifecycle, including gathering requirements, design, documentation, management of code review, creation of testing plans, as well as implementation and management of deployment and monitoring of the resulting software systems. Train junior developers in all of the above.

The position requires a 3 or 4 year Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering or a related quantitative field plus minimum of two (2) years of experience in any occupation where an individual gains experience developing software. Experience must include:

• 1 year of professional experience using OCaml programming language;
• Experience managing software release cycles and software QA processes; 
• Experience applying knowledge of OCaml language semantics and runtime system;
• Experience using the Mercurial distributed version control system; 
• Experience using asynchronous programming, typeful software design, and monadic programming;
• Experience programming on the Linux platform, including working with network programming and scripting tools.

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