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 offices around the globe, we emphasize true, global collaboration by aligning our investment, technology and operations teams functionally around the world.
Team : Data Infrastructure
Department : Data Development
The Data Infrastructure team manages the service-oriented data storage infrastructure for the firm. We implement microservices that provide high performance solutions to access large data sets required in trading and research.
We are looking for an experienced Software Developer with a strong background in C++ to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining the data infrastructure components that support our data processing and analytics pipelines. You will work closely with data engineers, data scientists, quantitative researchers and other stakeholders to ensure efficient and reliable data retrieval, processing and storage.
Position Overview :
- Design, develop, and maintain data infrastructure microservices using C++ to process and analyze large data sets
- Optimize microservices for performance and scalability, ensuring efficient data processing
- Debug and troubleshoot software issues, providing timely resolutions
- Stay up-to-date with industry trends and advancements in C++ programming and data engineering technologies
- Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code, following coding best practices and standards
- Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and consistency
- Collaborate with support teams to ensure smooth deployment and operation of microservices
- Contribute to the overall software architecture and design of data processing and analytics pipelines
Required Qualifications :
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related subject4+ years of professional software engineering experienceProficiency in C++Experience working on microservices and / or asynchronous multithreaded applicationsAbility to work in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.Strong problem-solving and debugging skillsExperience working in a Linux environmentExcellent communication skills, comfortable interacting directly with stakeholdersWillingness to pick up and learn new technologies and frameworksNice to have :
Knowledge of databases, SQLFamiliarity with Boost ASIOFamiliarity with data serialization formats such Apache Arrow / Parquet, Google Protocol Buffers, FlatbuffersExperience with gRPC, and Websocket protocolsExperience with Google Cloud / AWS and / or containerization in Docker / KubernetesExperience with highly available distributed systems and working with large datasetsExperience with other programming languages such as Rust, Python and Q is a plus