Role: Sr. Quant Python Developer
Contract length: 1 year with two 1 year renewal options
Start date: As Soon As Possible
Location: Downtown Austin, TX
Job Description:
The Senior Quant Developer performs highly advanced (senior-level) python programming to support our quantitative equity strategies team. Works under minimal supervision with extensive latitude for initiative and independent judgement.
Minimum/Preferred Qualifications:
• 3+ years of solid Python programming skills to cleanse, manipulate, and present data, particularly using quantitative data analysis libraries such as Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, etc.
• 3+ years of financial industry experience in a report development, data science, business analytics, business intelligence or comparable data engineering role, including data warehousing and business intelligence tools, techniques and technology
• 6+ years of full-time experience developing and maintaining enterprise scale applications
• Experience deploying and supporting Python apps to both Windows and Linux environments
• Knowledge of TSQL to write complex, highly-optimized queries across large volumes of data
• Experience managing projects and developing applications using the Agile SCRUM methodology
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to explain complicated or technical information in a simple way to non-technical audiences
• Ability and willingness to refactor code produced by others and make production-ready
• Intellectual curiosity and passion about data, visualization and solving problems
• Creativity to determine the best solution for a real-world problem with quantitative data
• Experience with reporting, descriptive statistics, probability, and cleaning big datasets
• Willingness to question the validity, accuracy of data and assumptions
• Enjoyment from collaborating with others in team environment
• Eagerness to learn in a fast-paced environment
• Drive and self-reliance
• Bachelor's degree in math, statistics, computer science, or equivalent technical field from an accredited college or university