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Defined by evolution, innovation and focus, Millennium’s mission is to deliver results for our investors.\nOur people are empowered with both independence and support: the autonomy to pursue ideas with conviction and the backing of a global network committed to collaboration, disciplined risk management and continuous learning. With opportunities to deepen expertise and accelerate development, talent at Millennium is equipped to adapt, evolve and build lasting impact over time. Discover how transformative growth accelerates impact.\nMeet the Team\nCore to the health and growth of Millennium’s business, the Information Technology organization develops flexible, scalable technology and advanced proprietary systems, including the next generation of analytical and trading capabilities. Within this organization, EQRT Services (PM Tools) is a front-office team responsible for the design, development, and support of technology platforms that enable the business to research and develop strategies, create simulated trade books, run backtests, and assess risk and factor analytics across live and paper portfolios on an intraday and end-of-day basis.\nWhat You'll Do\nPartner closely with R&D and application development teams to research, design, prototype, and implement next-generation high-performance real-time analytics and market data solutions\nHelp build and enhance a market-leading portfolio management platform in close partnership with business users\nDevelop and support intraday analytics platforms used across the firm’s risk and portfolio management systems\nWork across a range of technologies to deliver scalable, high-performance solutions for real-time trading and analytics workflows\nContribute to application development, project delivery, and platform architecture for highly scalable real-time systems\nWhat You Bring\n5+ years of experience in Python application development, with a strong understanding of Linux operating systems\nExperience with grid scheduling and compute orchestration for real-time compute management at scale, including technologies such as SLURM\nStrong understanding of event-driven architecture and experience with messaging and caching technologies such as Kafka, Solace, Pulsar, Memcache, and Redis\nExperience building AI RAG and MCP agents\nExperience with monitoring and observability tools such as Datadog and the ELK stack\nStrong knowledge of database technologies, including advanced SQL, NoSQL, and time-series databases such as Kdb\nExcellent grasp of data structures and algorithms, with the ability to learn and adopt new technologies quickly\nStrong interest in financial markets and working directly with investment professionals; experience with large-scale real-time portfolio analytics tools, cloud platforms, containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, or multi-threaded C++ is a plus","description_format":"text","description_chars":3003,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Continuous learning"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Hedge Funds & Alternative Investments"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-26T07:37:06Z"}],"liveness":{"score":15,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.416,"p_room":0.36,"age_days":53,"expected_fill_days":33,"reasons":["conf:2","win:tail","crowd:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-09-27T01:45:26Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/millennium-management-python-software-engineer-intraday-trading","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/millennium-management-python-software-engineer-intraday-trading.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-27T01:45:26Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1597,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":3403,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-09-28T00:00:00Z"}}}