Software Developer

Software Developer focuses on maintain squarepoint's service-oriented database architecture for research and production.

What the role involves

• Maintain Squarepoint's service-oriented database architecture for research and production.
• There is a strong operational component to the role, as they act as level 2+ support for these services during live trading.
• Acquire a deep understanding of the data requirements of investment research teams to deliver the right solutions.
• Collaborate with and influence technologists and investment researchers to ensure our reference data services meet constantly evolving requirements.
• Review technical documents, such as requirements docs for researchers.
• Design docs to propose new platform solutions and production support runbooks.

Skills and requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a STEM subject.
• 2+ years development experience with kdb+/q.
• 2+ years designing, testing, optimizing and troubleshooting data intensive applications.
• Experience analyzing and organizing financial data.

Candidate fit

• technical problem-solving, code quality, testing discipline, and clear collaboration

Additional role context

• Serve data from vendors and public sources in Squarepoint's data infrastructure (alpha data and cross-asset referential data).
• Reference Data Services teams work closely with portfolio managers to design, implement.
• Test, optimize and troubleshoot kdb+/q data pipelines, frameworks and services.