Location: within 50 miles of 6Th Ave, NYC - 3 days on site mandatory in a week
Pay Range: $65-$70/Hr.
Applicants must be able to work directly for Artech on W2 from Day 1
1) Need candidates fundamentally strong in Python development across multiple services, not just scripting.
2) Previous Quartz experience with bank is a huge plus
3) Need candidates with enough design experience to confidently problem-solve across multiple services
4) The ideal candidate will be comfortable with complicated issues across multiple services and volatile timelines.
This role is for a Senior Python Developer within the Quantitative Investment Strategies (QIS) Technology team, responsible for the design, development, and evolution of a complex, large scale technology platform supporting the creation, calculation, lifecycle management, reporting, and hedging of QIS products. The platform supports 1,000+ live Equities QIS products and is built on a distributed, service oriented architecture on Quartz platform with stringent requirements around performance, scalability, and reliability.
The ideal candidate will be an extremely hands on senior engineer with deep Python and Object Oriented Programming expertise and a strong track record of building and operating high performance, scalable systems in a front office environment. The role requires close engagement with front office and quant stakeholders to address critical business queries, resolve production issues, and deliver strategic enhancements. The candidate will play a key role in executing complex technology initiatives and identifying opportunities to modernize, simplify, and improve the overall QIS technology platform. This position demands strong technical judgment, ownership mindset, and the ability to balance day to day delivery with longer term platform strategy.
Key Responsibilities
• Act as a senior hands on developer and technical leader for the QIS technology platform, contributing directly to core codebase.
• Design, build, and maintain performant, scalable, and resilient services supporting creation, lifecycle management, reporting, and hedging of QIS products.
• Enhance, maintain and redesign a highly performant, scalable, and resilient service for consuming and caching market data services.
• Own and drive architecture and design decisions across a complex, multi service platform, ensuring alignment with business growth and performance requirements.
• Partner closely with front office, quants, trading, and risk teams to understand requirements, address critical queries, and resolve high impact production issues.
• Lead and contribute to the delivery of strategic projects, from requirements and design through implementation, testing, and production rollout.
• Identify and execute opportunities for platform redesign, refactoring, and modernization, improving scalability, latency, reliability, and developer productivity.
• Apply best practices in software engineering, including code quality, testing, observability, and operational excellence.
• Review the work of other developers on the team, setting high engineering standards across the team.
• Contribute to incident analysis, root cause investigations, and ongoing improvements to system stability and performance.
• Collaborate with Global Technology teams to ensure consistent architecture, tooling, and development practices.
Required Qualifications
• 7+ years of hands on software development experience, with deep expertise in Python in production environments.
• Strong experience designing and implementing large scale, distributed systems with complex business logic.
• Strong experience and knowledge of Object Oriented Programming concepts.
• Proven ability to act as a technical architect, defining system designs, APIs, data flows, and inter - service interactions.
• Demonstrated experience building high performance and scalable solutions; experience with low latency systems is a significant plus.
• Experience working directly with front office or quantitative stakeholders in a capital markets environment.
• Strong knowledge of software performance optimization, concurrency, and resource management.
• Experience leading projects and taking end to end ownership of delivery.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non technical audiences.
• Strong mentoring skills and a demonstrated ability to develop junior talent.
Preferred Qualifications
• Knowledge of pricing, hedging, or lifecycle management systems in Capital Markets.
• Prior experience modernizing or re architecting platforms in a regulated environment.
• Hands on experience with Quartz or similar platforms – Athena, Beacon etc.
For immediate consideration please click APPLY or contact me directly at ansaf.ghani@artech.com