Lead Software Engineer (Python)

• We are building a financial platform that will research and run systematic trading strategies.
• We collaborate with the quant team on strategies research, risk modeling, and portfolio optimizations. Our software engineering team embeds the corresponding logic into the platform.
• Similar systems already exist on the market, but quants need to use several of them to research and run trading strategies. Our client’s idea is to build a system that can do it all.
• Client: Several quants with 15+ years of Wall Street experience.
• Team: 25 people divided into three sub-teams.

Project’s Stack

• Frontend: Typescript, Material UI, React, Jest, ESLint, Recharts.
• Backend (Microservices): Kotlin, Groovy, Python, Micronaut, Flask, Gatling, Locust, Spock, FastAPI, Pytest, Pandas, NumPy, SQLAIchemy, Yoyo.
• Databases: AWS DocumentDB, PostgreSQL.
• Infrastructure/pipelines: AWS, Airflow, Terraform, Terraspace, Docker, Gradle, Tekton, VCS, Git.

What a Lead Software Engineer will do:

• Design cloud-native software for AWS using AWS Well-Architected Framework
• Design functional behavior of software based on user needs
• Code using CI/CD and TDD practices
• Organize and coordinate the team
• Communicate with the client and the team daily
• Complete related tasks: participate in team meetings, estimate features, analyze the system’s security

We expect that a Lead Software Engineer:

• Has 3+ years of experience developing web apps on Python
• Has at least Upper-Intermediate level of English; can communicate with native English speakers
• Used relational and non-relational databases; wrote requests to databases
• Worked with AWS and AWS Well-Architected Framework; can design cloud-native software for AWS using AWS Well-Architected Framework
• Used Terraform for cloud resource management
• Has 1+ years of team leading experience

Will be a plus:

• You have expertise in FinTech
• You have worked with Flask or any other web frameworks
• You have worked with Kotlin or any other backend programming language
• You have worked with Pandas or NumPy libraries
• You have worked with Airflow