K4
Quantitative Technologist
New York City
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 198 days ago
C++RailsDistributed SystemsFull-Stack DevelopmentData StructuresAlgorithmsResearchCommunication
About the role
- As a Quantitative Technologist, you will have holistic ownership over the firm's technical ecosystem.
Responsibilities
- Market Access Platforms: Building normalized gateways that abstract away the complexities of diverse, high-friction exchange protocols.
- Research Ecosystems: Building distributed simulation environments and data lakes that allow researchers to backtest strategies against petabytes of noisy, real-world data with deterministic accuracy.
- Reliability Engineering: Designing fault-tolerant systems that maintain high availability even in unstable network environments.
- Strategy Evolution: Collaborating with researchers to implement and optimize fully automated trading strategies.
Requirements
- Proficiency in low-level languages (e.g., Rust, C++, or Go) with a strong grasp of memory management, concurrency models, and processor architecture.
- A rigorous understanding of algorithmic complexity and the ability to apply it to real-time constraints.
- Systems Programming: Proficiency in low-level languages (e.g., Rust, C++, or Go) with a strong grasp of memory management, concurrency models, and processor architecture.
Company info
- We are looking for polyglot systems engineers who prioritize the right tool for the job.
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