Software Engineer, Trading Technology

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About the Role

We are seeking an exceptionally talented individual to join our Trading Technology team. Trading Technology at AlphaQuest builds tools to support the firm’s trade execution, order management and post trade systems.

 

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work with various internal stakeholders across trading and research to design and implement new features for the firm’s execution and order management systems
• Configure, manage and support trading and research infrastructure to ensure optimal performance and reliability
• Help users learn how to use the tools the team builds to drive efficiencies
• Collaborate with Technology and teams outside of Technology to deliver cross-departmental initiatives that support the firm’s business priorities

 

Experience and Skills: 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. (Not open to 2024 or 2025 graduates)
• 3+ years of experience building enterprise and scalable applications
• 3+ years of experience with C#, Python a plus
• Strong understanding of OOP
• Passion for finance
• Familiarity with software development tools and methodologies, including version control, testing frameworks, and continuous integration.
• Experience with relational database technologies
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to convey complex information clearly and concisely.
• Be an upstream thinker, proactive problem preventer and creative solution-oriented multi-tasker
• Thrive in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to develop strong relationships, being always reliable and communicative to all parties
• Demonstrate poise under pressure with impeccable attention to detail
• Desired
  • Knowledge of trading systems, algorithms, and financial markets

 

AlphaQuest will not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies for this role or any others. 

The base range for this role is expected to be between $140,000 and $160,000. This does not include other aspects of compensation such as discretionary bonus and a competitive comprehensive benefits package. Actual compensation offered to a candidate will vary within the range above depending on factors such as qualifications, education, and skill level.

 

 

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About the Firm

AlphaQuest is a research-driven, alternative asset management firm headquartered in New York City with $2.3 billion in assets under management, focused on delivering truly uncorrelated investment strategies at the intersection of mathematics, data science and investing. Founded in 2001 by chief investment officer Nigol Koulajian, the firm manages assets on behalf of some of the world’s largest institutional investors. Through our collaborative approach to research, our team combines our values – intellectual humility, transparent collaboration, rapid prototyping and knowledge continuity – to improve our understanding of Alpha and tail risk, in an effort to develop quantitative investment strategies that benefit from short-term expansions in volatility and crowding, as well as longer-term shifts in the market regime. We continue to research and further broaden the application of our 25+ years of experience in measuring and capturing breakouts and breakdowns across global markets – to other asset classes, factors, investment strategies, and time frames. This includes novel ways to source convexity within futures and FX, individual equities, alternative markets, and other well-established systematic investment strategies. This research evolution has taken place while remaining faithful to one of our founding principles of delivering strong absolute returns that exhibit positive skew (right-tails).