As a member of the compute platforms team, you will be responsible for the development of the compute platforms, workflow and observability systems, and multiple services (such as Discovery, AI and the others) for the Research group. As a systematic asset manager, Arrowstreet must identify investable trading strategies and implement them quickly and with the highest quality. Having a robust, scalable, and performant general compute platform and workflow system is thus of critical importance.
The ideal candidate will possess experience in building distributed systems, applications and infrastructure, experience with Kubernetes and AWS Cloud, experience in implementing large scale systems. The expectation of the role is to be hands-on, create the design, develop, test, build, deploy and support the functionality. The work includes developing Infrastructure-As-Code solutions, developing the automated build and deploy pipelines with unit and integrated tests to ensure high quality and efficient operations, and be part of on-call support rotation.
Responsibilities
Work closely with members of the Research group to review requirements for the compute platforms, workflow and observability systems, and multiple services (such as Discovery, AI and the others).
Collaborate with the 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 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.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related discipline
2+ years of professional software development experience using Python or another object-oriented language, financial services exposure is a plus.
Experience developing large, high-performance, distributed systems.
Experience building high-performance cloud native solutions on public cloud (AWS preferred)
Experience in container technologies like Kubernetes and Docker.
Experience in building resilient CI/CD pipelines, strong knowledge of Git, and familiarity with a DevOps platform like GitLab.
Experience with Helm and Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform preferred)
Strong in computer science fundamentals like data structures, algorithm design and complexity analysis
Ability to write elegant code, and 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
Arrowstreet Capital is a Boston-based systematic investment firm that manages global equity portfolios for institutional investors around the world.
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