Squarepoint Capital is hiring a
Software Developer

Summary

Join Squarepoint Capital as a software developer to work on challenging projects, develop your skills in a collegiate environment, and contribute to the company's success.

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other degree with a heavy emphasis on software development
• Proficiency in at least one of our core languages: Python, C++, or KDB+/q, JavaScript/TypeScript/React
• Some experience developing software in a commercial setting, demonstrated through work experience or personal projects
• Knowledge of Linux and version control systems
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Eagerness to continuously learn new technologies and develop with us
• Ability to work well in a fast-paced environment

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the core tooling, libraries, and frameworks we use for developing applications at Squarepoint
• Manage the software development lifecycle of libraries and frameworks used globally by our teams of technologists
• Contribute to data driven applications, pipelines, and systems used to feed predictive models in research and trading
• Build software products used worldwide by traders, researchers, data scientists, and other teams at Squarepoint to fuel our trading success
• Work on high performance, low-latency systems powering critical trading operations
• Drive the design and implementation of trading frameworks, market data solutions and global market connectivity
• Build massively parallel, high-volume, distributed applications to enable our technology to scale as we grow
• Create distributed frameworks, tools, and platforms which process massive volumes of data and underpin the stack used by other technology teams
• Enhance your users' experience on our sophisticated research and trading platforms
• Collaborate with our expert team to develop fully-fledged dashboards facilitating real-time data access, and support the exploration of large volumes of data integral to our trading workflows and operations
• Build web applications to drive rapid decision-making and uphold our competitive edge in a high-stakes trading environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency in more than one of our core programming languages
• Previous experience working in the hedge fund industry, or finance generally
• Demonstrable experience working with git and Linux