Arrowstreet Capital
Investment Management
SoftwareEngineer,InvestmentTechnologyPlatform
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“Software Engineer, Investment Technology Platform at Arrowstreet Capital. Skills: compute platform development, workflow development, messaging systems development, AI systems development, observability systems development, Infrastructure-As-Code, automated build and deploy pipelines, production support. development of the compute platform, workflow, messaging, AI and observability systems. design, develop, test, build, deploy and support the functionality of various business-critical platforms”
What You'll Achieve.
provide and expand the technical capabilities that drive our systematic investment process; design investment portfolios that will, in expectation, outperform their respective benchmarks on a risk-adjusted basis; maintain and enhance its competitive advantage; build production-quality systems; identify investable trading strategies and implement them quickly and with the highest quality; ensure high quality and efficient operations; prevent disruptions to investment processes
Industry & Context.
Strong, creative problem-solving abilities
on-call support rotation
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
2+ years of professional software development experience using Python or another object-oriented language, knowledge in computer science fundamentals like data structures, algorithm design and complexity analysis, Ability to write elegant code, comfortable with picking up new technologies independently, Self-motivated and self-directed, ability to translate technical direction into functional solutions, Strong, creative problem-solving abilities, Collaboration mindset
Nice to Have
Experience developing large, high-performance, distributed systems, Experience building high-performance cloud native solutions on public cloud (AWS preferred), Proficiency in system-related topics, e. g. hardware architecture, OS, networking, Experience in container technologies like Kubernetes and Docker, Experience in building resilient CI/CD pipelines, knowledge of Git, familiarity with a DevOps platform like GitLab, Experience with Helm, Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform preferred), Experience working in the financial domain
What You'll Do.
development of the compute platform
AI and observability systems
deploy and support the functionality of various business-critical platforms
developing Infrastructure-As-Code solutions
developing the automated build and deploy pipelines with unit and integrated tests
part of on-call support rotation
Work closely with members of the Research and Investment Technology groups to review requirements for the compute platform
AI and observability systems
Collaborate with team members to create the design that ensures the solution to be scalable
cost effective and to have low maintenance
Develop high quality solutions in both on premise environments and AWS Cloud using Python and other languages
Develop easy-to-maintain
well-engineered and fully tested Infrastructure-As-Code solutions using Terraform
develop the automated build and deploy pipelines with unit and integrated tests to ensure high quality and efficient operations
Provide production support to prevent disruptions to investment processes
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work closely with members of the Research and Investment Technology groups; Collaborate with team members
Full Job Description
**Job Overview** The Investment Technology department is an internal software engineering organization whose mission is to provide and expand the technical capabilities that drive our systematic investment process. As an active manager, Arrowstreet seeks to design investment portfolios that will, in expectation, outperform their respective benchmarks on a risk-adjusted basis. To do so, the firm relies on a large set of proprietary systems and applications that provide our investment teams with powerful capabilities to conduct research for alpha generation, to implement investment strategies efficiently, to accurately manage our client accounts, and to provide in-depth analysis and reporting of our investment performance to our investors. Technology is integral to our long-term success, and we regard outstanding engineering talent essential to the firm’s ability to meet its investment performance and fiduciary goals. We strongly believe that powerful capabilities are critical for the firm to maintain and enhance its competitive advantage, so we look out for strong, motivated and collaborative technologists that are passionate about building production-quality systems using modern tools. As a member of the Compute Platforms team, you will be responsible for the development of the compute platform, workflow, messaging, AI and observability systems. Arrowstreet, as a systematic asset manager, must identify investable trading strategies and implement them quickly and with the highest quality. Having a robust, scalable, and performant general compute platform, messaging and workflow system is thus of critical importance. The ideal candidate will possess experience in building web-based applications and mission-critical large-scale systems; experience with Kubernetes, AWS Cloud and building infrastructure is a plus. The expectation of the role is to be hands-on, create the design, develop, test, build, deploy and support the functionality of various business-critical platf
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