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Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Senior Full-Stack Engineer
WorldQuant develops and deploys systematic financial strategies across a variety of asset classes and global markets. We seek to produce high-quality predictive signals (Alphas) through our proprietary research platform to employ financial strategies focused on exploiting market inefficiencies. Our teams work collaboratively to drive the production of Alphas and financial strategies – the foundation of a sustainable, global investment platform. Technologists at WorldQuant research, design, code, test and deploy projects while working collaboratively with researchers and portfolio managers. Our environment is relaxed yet intellectually intense. Our teams are lean and agile, which means rapid prototyping of products with immediate user feedback. We seek people who think in code, aspire to solve undiscovered computer science challenges and are motivated by being around like-minded people. WorldQuant’s success is built on a culture that pairs academic sensibility with accountability for results. Employees are encouraged to think openly about problems, balancing intellectualism and practicality. Great ideas come from anyone, anywhere. Employees are encouraged to challenge conventional thinking and possess a mindset of continuous improvement. That’s a key ingredient in remaining a leader in any industry.
Our goal is to hire the best and the brightest. We value intellectual horsepower first and foremost, and people who demonstrate an exceptional talent. There is no roadmap to future success, so we need people who can help us create it. Our collective intelligence will drive us there.
The Role: The Teamware group is looking for strong Python full-stack developers to work on an important internal web service which is critical to the firm. The right candidate will have the ability to advance the architecture and onboarding of this application, as well as drive future project directions and architecture as it is integrated through significant parts of the firm.
What You’ll bring:
Experience in HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript
Expertise in Python web frameworks such as Django, Flask and others
Demonstrated experience developing scalable and robust software web applications
Experience with popular Javascript libraries and tools such as React.js, jQuery, NPM
Working experience with SQL databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL)
Experience in DevOps: thorough knowledge in one webserver (Apache/NGINX/Tomcat eg. SSL, caching, routing, HTTP/2, CORS, domains), monitoring, orchestration
Experience with microservices, caching tools, data visualization, log collection and aggregation, search, queuing systems, Go language or distributed systems is plus
A solid background in Unix/Linux environment and Shell scripting