Vice President Software Engineer - Tick Data
Paris, 75, FR
ABOUT CFM
Founded in 1991, we are a global quantitative and systematic asset management firm applying a scientific approach to finance to develop alternative investment strategies that create value for our clients.
We value innovation, dedication, collaboration, and the ability to make an impact. Together, we create a stimulating environment for talented and passionate experts in research, technology, and business to explore new ideas and challenge existing assumptions.
ABOUT THE ROLE
The Team
Data is the fuel that powers our investment strategies: intraday price dynamics are used to better our investment decisions; buy/sell intents of market participants help to trade at the best available price… CFM Data team is in charge preparing the data to make quant research easier and trading more reliable.
The Mission
As a software engineer (Data), you will contribute to the success of our strategies by integrating new datasets and making sure data integration pipelines run smoothly and efficiently. Your main responsibility will be to strengthen and add new capabilities to our tick-by-tick data engineering platform.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintaining the platform to keep it state-of-the-art
- Architecting & developing value-adding capabilities to the platform, with a focus on user-friendliness
- Automating recurrent tasks to reduce friction & improve time to market
- Soliciting user feedback & animate platform roadmap
- Supporting quant research by providing technical guidance
- Developing, deploying & monitoring data pipelines
Qualifications / Required Skills
- Over 5 years of experience
- Education: BS or MS degree in Computer Science or related Computer Engineering curriculum
- Expertise in python and C++ development
- Experience with distributed data processing and/or computing frameworks (spark, slurm, etc.)
- Knowledge of tick-by-tick data (orderbook, quotes, trades, etc)
- Experience building & running distributed applications
- Very good knowledge of Linux environments, including system administration, containers and packaging solutions
- Knowledge of essential cloud concepts such as infrastructure-as-code, access management, storage, provisioning & pricing models.
- Strong coding skills, interest for technology
- Team player, able to communicate with quant teams
- Excellent analytical skills
- Ability to solve complex problems
- Capacity to work in a fast-paced, high-stakes environment, with a commitment to professional development and continuous learning
Optional
- Proven experience architecting & deploying cloud workloads, preferably on AWS
What can CFM offer you?
We create an environment for highly-talented and passionate PhDs, IT engineers and other recognized experts to explore new ideas and challenge assumptions. We are a Great Place to Work and welcome those who are intellectually curious and keen to see CFM’s thinking, research and analysis come to life in a way that benefits our clients
EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES STATEMENT
We are continuously striving to be an equal opportunity employer and we prohibit any discrimination based on sex, disability, origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, race, or religion. We believe that our diversity, breadth of experience, and multiple points of view are among the leading factors in our success.
CFM is a signatory of the Women Empowerment Principles.
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