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Senior C++ Software Engineer

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London, Greater London, England
Senior level
London, Greater London, England
Senior level
The Senior C++ Software Engineer will develop large-scale distributed systems to enhance WorldQuant's research platform, ensuring scalability and efficient production processes.
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WorldQuant develops and deploys systematic financial strategies across a broad range of asset classes and global markets. We seek to produce high-quality predictive signals (alphas) through our proprietary research platform to employ financial strategies focused on market inefficiencies. Our teams work collaboratively to drive the production of alphas and financial strategies – the foundation of a balanced, global investment platform.

WorldQuant is built on a culture that pairs academic sensibility with accountability for results. Employees are encouraged to think openly about problems, balancing intellectualism and practicality. Excellent ideas come from anyone, anywhere. Employees are encouraged to challenge conventional thinking and possess an attitude of continuous improvement.

Our goal is to hire the best and the brightest. We value intellectual horsepower first and foremost, and people who demonstrate an outstanding talent. There is no roadmap to future success, so we need people who can help us build it.

Technologists at WorldQuant research, design, code, test and deploy firmwide platforms and tooling while working collaboratively with researchers and portfolio managers. Our environment is relaxed yet intellectually driven. We seek people who think in code and are motivated by being around like-minded people.

The Role: Our group is responsible for building software enabling both the large-scale quantitative research operations that drive WorldQuant’s platform and the production of our portfolio. The team is currently embarking on a multi-year journey to provide a powerful, scalable, and efficient platform to drive the firm’s next decade of growth. We are looking for someone who can own some of the unique technical challenges inherent in the problem and who can bring solid experience and perspective to the team.

What You’ll Bring:

A successful candidate will possess:

  • A minimum of 7 years of writing production-quality code in C++ on Linux platform
  • Strong understanding and experience with Linux system programming fundamentals
  • Ability to develop large-scale, distributed systems
  • Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, high-performance application design, and concurrency patterns.
  • Self-motivated and able to work independently with minimal direction
  • Proficiency in English

An outstanding candidate will also have experience with one or more of:

  • Python development experience is also a plus
  • Developing systems for managing and performing computation on large-scale graph data
  • Streaming / dataflow systems
  • Candidates need not have prior experience in financial services.


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Python

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