Job Overview

As a member of the Compute Platforms team, you will be responsible for the development of the compute platform, workflow, messaging, AI and observability systems. Arrowstreet, as a systematic asset manager, must identify investable trading strategies and implement them quickly and with the highest quality. Having a robust, scalable, and performant general compute platform, messaging and workflow system is thus of critical importance. 

The ideal candidate will possess experience in building web-based applications and mission-critical large-scale systems; experience with Kubernetes, AWS Cloud and building infrastructure is a plus. The expectation of the role is to be hands-on, create the design, develop, test, build, deploy and support the functionality of various business-critical platforms. 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 and Investment Technology groups to review requirements for the compute platform, workflow, messaging, AI and observability systems.

• Collaborate with 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 easy-to-maintain, well-engineered and fully tested 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.

• 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

Preferred:

• Experience developing large, high-performance, distributed systems.

• Experience building high-performance cloud native solutions on public cloud (AWS preferred)

• Proficiency in system-related topics, e.g. hardware architecture, OS, networking

• 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)

• Experience working in the financial domain

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The base salary range for this position is $100,000 - $215,000 per year.