Fullstack Developer

Hudson River Trading • Chicago, IL

11d

About The Position

Fullstack Developers at HRT work either on our platform team (i.e. you work on infrastructure & tooling that supports all of our research & trading capabilities) or our acceleration team (i.e. you are aligned with a specific algo research & trading team). All of our Fullstack Developers have internal customers and deeply understand end-user needs. They build backend processes to ingest and transform vast quantities of data, and UIs to visualize and action that data quickly.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• Experience working with Python and React
• Experience working with JavaScript or TypeScript
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent multitasking and time management skills
• Ability to work independently and collaborate across teams
• Ability to look at a technical system, understand how it works, and identify how to make it better
• Ability to explain complicated topics to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Driven by curiosity
• Thrives within a team that consistently challenges you to improve the ecosystem around you

Responsibilities

• Work on our in-house distributed-compute framework designed for execution on a large scale within HRT’s compute cluster. This framework serves various teams, with our algo teams being the primary users, particularly for training complex models.
• Work closely with our Algo Developers and traders, building backend processes and UIs for them to oversee trading processes, execute manual trades, assess risk, and research improvements to our strategies.
• Work closely with a variety of senior technical and non-technical users and own projects end-to-end, from inception to gathering and refining requirements, forming and executing a structured plan, and managing ongoing support and iterations to the initial plan.
• Architect web-based tooling to provide insights and enable real-time actions using financial data, operational data, trading activity, and more using React and Python.

Benefits

• This role will also be eligible for discretionary performance-based bonuses and a competitive benefits package which includes medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance, and enrollment in our company’s retirement savings plans.
• Employees will receive sick and parental leave, as well as other paid time off (including 20 vacation days and 10 paid holidays in the US).
• Please note that benefits and time off policies will vary across non-US locations.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level