Locations
Montreal, QC, Canada • London, UK
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Squarepoint is a global investment management firm that utilizes a diversified portfolio of systematic and quantitative strategies across financial markets that seeks to achieve high quality, uncorrelated returns for our clients. We have deep expertise in trading, technology and operations and attribute our success to rigorous scientific research. As a technology and data-driven firm, we design and build our own cutting-edge systems, from high performance trading platforms to large scale data analysis and compute farms. With main investment offices in New York, London and Singapore, we emphasize true, global collaboration by aligning our investment, technology and operations teams functionally around the world..
Job Description
Squarepoint Capital is adding to our team of world class quantitative developers. Successful candidates will join a highly accomplished team of professionals working directly with quantitative researchers to design, implement, deploy and use software for research and trading. As part of the technology team, the team follows modern software development principles and works with peers in technology to mature and evolve these tools for wider use. Quantitative developers drive cross-team initiatives with technologists and quantitative researchers across all asset classes to achieve Squarepoint’s objectives.
Candidate Requirements
- Degree in applied math, physics, engineering, quantitative finance, computer science
- 3 or more years’ experience with KDB
- Knowledge of finance, data storage, processing and analysis
- Experience with modern software development: Version control, agile development
- Experience with continuous integration (CI), logging and monitoring systems a plus
- Advanced quantitative skills a plus
- Experience with requirements analysis and designing software solutions a plus
- Excellent technical communication skills