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.
Role: Software Developer
Team: Internal Compute Frameworks
Location(s): London, Montreal, Singapore, Warsaw
Position Overview:
We are seeking an experienced and passionate Software Developer to join our growing team. In this role, you will play a key part in designing, building, and maintaining Squarepoint internal frameworks, services and platforms that power our business. You will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies and make a direct impact on the efficiency and productivity of both investment and technology teams within SquarePoint.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable, production-grade distributed systems.
- Collaborate closely with investment stakeholders and other technology teams to align on project goals.
- Take full ownership of the systems developed by you and your team, ensuring their reliability and performance.
- Provide support and troubleshoot live production systems effectively.
- Engage actively in all stages of the software lifecycle, from gathering requirements to production support.
- Be comfortable working with our diverse technology stack, including Rust, Python, Kubernetes, and more.
Required Qualifications:
- Minimum of 6 years of full-time software development experience.
- Proficiency and prior experience with C++ (a prerequisite for Rust positions within the firm).
- Desire to work with Rust; prior experience is beneficial but not required.
- Ability to demonstrate Rust programming skills through an interview process.
- Hands-on experience implementing Docker and Kubernetes microservices in a production environment.
- Experience with highly available distributed systems and/or working with large datasets.
- Experience supporting and monitoring large production systems.
- Excellent communication skills, with comfort in directly interacting with stakeholders.
- Familiarity with a Linux environment and version control software.
- Experience working with and designing CI/CD pipelines.