Senior C++ Software Engineer

Technologists at WorldQuant research, design, code, test and deploy firmwide platforms and tooling while working collaboratively with researchers and portfolio managers. Our environment is relaxed yet intellectually driven. We seek people who think in code and are motivated by being around like-minded people.

The Role: Our group is responsible for building software enabling both the large-scale quantitative research operations that drive WorldQuant’s platform and the production of our portfolio. The team is currently embarking on a multi-year journey to provide a powerful, scalable, and efficient platform to drive the firm’s next decade of growth. We are looking for someone who can own some of the unique technical challenges inherent in the problem and who can bring solid experience and perspective to the team.

What You’ll Bring:

A successful candidate will possess:

A minimum of 7 years of writing production-quality code in C++ on Linux platform

Strong understanding and experience with Linux system programming fundamentals

Ability to develop large-scale, distributed systems

Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, high-performance application design, and concurrency patterns.

Self-motivated and able to work independently with minimal direction

Proficiency in English

An outstanding candidate will also have experience with one or more of:

Python development experience is also a plus

Developing systems for managing and performing computation on large-scale graph data

Streaming / dataflow systems

Candidates need not have prior experience in financial services.

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