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We are a collaborative, data-driven, intellectually rigorous team responsible for coming up with investment ideas, codifying those ideas into signals, back-testing the signals, and producing return, risk and trading cost forecasts based on the signals to drive trading decisions. We maintain a friendly, team-oriented environment and place a high value on professionalism, attitude and initiative.\nOur development team within Research is responsible for the tools, APIs, libraries and software engineering techniques to support faster generation, evaluation and productionization of investment ideas.\nAs a Quantitative Developer, you will help build our next-generation Research data platform leveraging open-source, cloud and distributed computing technologies. You will work on high-impact projects that are quickly adopted and drive change across the team.\nResponsibilities:\nWriting and maintaining Python libraries that supports the investment research production processes\n\nDesigning and creating software to enhance our data science technology stack\n\nDesign and implement financial data APIs and numerical APIs\n\nApply cloud and distributed computing technologies\n\nImplementing performance improvements in our data analysis and numerical programming code\n\nRunning POCs to evaluate new technologies and libraries in the PyData ecosystem\n\nWorking with software engineers to design feeds for new data sources from third-party vendors\n\nPropose and lead implementations of major components or features in our data science platform\n\nMentor, train and provide technical guidance to junior team members in design and coding standards\n\nOther projects based on experience and interest.\n\nQualifications:\nAn undergraduate or graduate degree from an educational institution in computer science\n\n5+ years of experience working as a Quantitative Developer or a in a related role\n\nStrong analytical and problem solving skills\n\nExpert programming skills in Python, experience implementing production-grade Python code\n\nExperience in OOP paradigms, data structures, and numerical algorithms\n\nData storage: RDBMS, S3, columnar databases, NOSQL databases\n\nDistributed computing: Spark, Dask, or HPC\n\nUnderstanding/interestin probability and statistics, including linear regression and time-series analysis\n\nCuriosity and a willingness to learn new technologies\n\nInterest in financial markets (prior experience not required)\n\nExcellent communication skills\n\nHigh energy and strong work ethic\n\nIn addition, experience with any of the following would be valuable:\nHadoop, Spark, Kafka, and related technologies\n\nUnix/Linux system tools and environment\n\nBasic familiarity with unit testing, continuous integration, DevOps, containerization\n\nInteractive data visualization and dashboards\n\nThe base salary range for this position is $170,000 - $325,000 per year.\nArrowstreet Capital operates a robust talent acquisition program, and we also seek to compensate and reward our employees competitively within our industry and in line with our merit-based culture. Our approach to total compensation includes base salaries and annual discretionary bonuses, as well as a robust benefits package. The determination of a successful candidate’s base salary placement within the listed range will vary based on the candidate’s relevant experience and qualifications (which may also include relevant certifications, credentials and other education), the job responsibilities and scope, the commensurate resulting level of the position and other relevant factors. The listed range is also an estimate, and additional information regarding base salary and other elements of total compensation offered by Arrowstreet Capital to successful applicants will be communicated during the recruitment process.\nArrowstreet Capital is a Boston-based systematic investment firm that manages global equity portfolios for institutional investors around the world.\nAll qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, genetic information, age, pregnancy, medical condition, disability, veteran or military status, marital status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.\nArrowstreet Capital is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans. 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