Quantitative Developer

**Job Responsibilities**

A highly collaborative, fast-growing team, Point72 Internal Alpha Capture (IAC) is developing scalable quantitative equity trading signals that leverage rigorous research, state-of-the-art machine learning methods, a broad range of public and proprietary data sources, and unparalleled computing power.

You will gain exposure to a variety of activities, which may include:

• Developing automated equities trading applications and real-time analytics
• Optimizing data ETL pipelines, persistent / in-memory caches and SQL databases
• Work alongside quant researchers developing quant signals.
• Improving signal research and trading tools infrastructure

**Desirable Candidates**

• Undergraduate or higher degree in computer science, machine learning, or other quantitative discipline
• 5+ years of experience at a hedge fund, major investment bank, or quantitative trading firm
• Strong programming experience in Python with production-level coding quality
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, particularly Docker
• Experience with Unix environment and shell scripting
• Knowledge of profiling (e.g. VisualVM, async-profiler) and code optimization is a plus
• Knowledge of statistics and machine learning is a plus
• Willing to take ownership of his/her work, working both independently and within a small team
• Prior experience in the financial services industry is a plus
• Commitment to the highest ethical standards