Software Engineer (Trading)

About AlphaVerse 

The AlphaVerse team is responsible for putting together a best-in-class mid-frequency trading and crowdsourcing platform where anybody can contribute signals and is rewarded for their innovations. We are looking for an enthusiastic and talented Software Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate thrives in ambiguous, fast-paced environments, is excited about building products from the ground up, have strong experience and proficiency in Python and Cython, and will be responsible for developing and maintaining our trading infrastructure. 

Key Responsibilities

• Participate in the design and implementation of our trading infrastructure from scratch 
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define technical requirements and architectural decisions 
• Write clean, well-documented code with appropriate test coverage 
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to technical documentation 
• Assist in troubleshooting and debugging production issues 
• Be on-call on a rotating basis 
• Help establish engineering best practices and coding standards 
• Mentor future junior team members as we scale 
• Take ownership of smaller projects and features from design to deployment 

Requirements 

• Able to thrive in the crucible of an extremely fast-paced, demanding start-up like environment 
• Able to bear immense responsibility for high-stakes, large-scale production infrastructure 
• Highly proficient in machine learning, with preference towards deep-learning architectures
• High proficiency in Python and proficient in Pytorch and Polars
• Experience with SQL-like databases, such as Postgres and Clickhouse database is a plus
• Experience with Cython in a performance sensitive environment is a plus
• Some knowledge of financial markets and instruments is a plus