Senior Trading Software Engineer - AI Hedge Fund

27 Apr 2024

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Senior Trading Software Engineer - AI Hedge Fund

Location: You can either work remotely or in the company's office in San Francisco, CA.

The company is a machine learning / data science hedge fund.The company has about 22 employees and 11 engineers.The company will pay up to $200k in salary plus profit sharing in the fund. The total first year compensation could be up to $300k.

Job Responsibilities:- Programming in Python.- Building out the Trading, Middle, and Back-office functions.- Solving problems with a large degree of autonomy and responsibility for outcomes.- Your time will be roughly equally spent between front office, middle office, and back office.- Identifying and balancing the needs of the business as a whole, and in many cases being the driver of those needs.- Examples of specific projects:-Integrating with at least two new Prime Brokerages - to enable the company to manage client assets at these banks, and to provide funds with better access to the markets.- Building the infrastructure to improve execution costs and mitigate capacity constraints.- Migrating from weekly trading to daily trading.- On-boarding a new data partner for more timely and complete reference data used in trading and portfolio construction.- Leveling up operational maturity around exception cases to daily processes.

Qualifications:- At least 3 years of experience as a trading engineer.- Proficiency with Python.- Experience building trading systems.- Experience with at last 2 of these 3: front office, middle office, back office.- Basic understanding of machine learning systems.- Excellent written communication (design docs, specs, documentation, code reviews, etc.).- Extreme ownership.- Good general systems knowledge and debugging skills.- Willing to work extended hours and on weekends if necessary.- Strong interest in finance, machine learning, and decentralization.

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  • ID: #49801210
  • State: California Sanfrancisco 94101 Sanfrancisco USA
  • City: Sanfrancisco
  • Salary: $200,000 - $300,000
  • Job type: Permanent
  • Showed: 2023-04-27
  • Deadline: 2023-06-13
  • Category: Et cetera