Junior Software Engineer

Our Partner offers future-proof quant technologies to global investors. Cloud-hosted and Python-based, the platform integrates a next-gen backtest engine and analytics with curated datasets covering equities, rates, FX, commodities and volatility. Our Partner eliminates the expensive upfront costs of infrastructure build-out, giving clients an edge in alpha generation from day one. 

Founded in 2019 we are a rapidly growing IT and services firm with offices in the UK and the USA. Investors with combined AUM $5 trillions are using Our Partner. We're launching our operations in Bangalore, and we're looking for people who are highly talented, competent, and committed to our clients' needs.

As a Junior Software Engineer, you will be working alongside the AI and Analytics Team, composed of the most brilliant individuals with unmatched technical experience, and engaged in the mission to deliver Our Partner's wider vision.

Roles and Responsibilities.

• Maintain and improve the testing suites used in the development life cycle of our backtest engine and analytics framework (GitHub Actions, PyTest).
• Refactoring of the analytics framework to remove technical debt, improve the publicly exposed interface and warnings/ error messages (Python).
• Processes to build our documentations: API, Jupyter notebooks, user guide, etc (Sphinx).
• Internal libraries packaging and third-party library integration (Poetry).
• Keep abreast of developing technologies, championing and incorporating when appropriate.

Key Requirements for this Role

• 1-2 years of experience in Software development.
• Bachelors in Computer Science or Information technology is a mandate.
• A minimum of 1+ years experience in Python or in any other mainstream OOP language. ( C++ preferred).
• Strong working knowledge of Linux ecosystem and Bash.
• Strong working knowledge of distributed version control with Git.
• Self-motivated individual that can work under their own initiative with minimal supervision and can deal effectively with external suppliers and providers.
• Excellent teamwork and collaboration skills, working effectively with cross-functional teams and clients.
• Strong communication skills and ability to present results to management teams to allow them to interpret the results and make effective decisions.
• Attitude to learn and implement new technologies and proactiveness among peers to get the work done.
• Working experience of software development best practice: CI, testing, deployment is desirable.
• Working experience with Docker or other containerization technologies is desirable. 
• Good to have experience in finance, fintech start-ups and/or scale-ups.
• Strong Knowledge of  Poetry and Docstring is desirable.