Join a full-stack engineering team supporting a Quantitative Equity Group's cloud-native signal generation, backtesting, data, and analytics platforms. This is a 6+ month contract role based in Charlotte, North Carolina. You will build next-generation quantitative research platforms on AWS, collaborate closely with investment business partners and product owners in an Agile setting, and gain direct exposure to global investment trading operations.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and deploy high-performance full-stack applications and analytics tools to support quantitative research and fund management.
- Conduct proofs-of-concept (POCs) to validate architectural design patterns and deploy resilient, observable, and secure production systems on AWS.
- Work side-by-side with product owners, quantitative researchers, and cross-functional engineers to translate complex investment logic into scalable software.
- Ensure high standards across system resilience, observability (monitoring/logging), data security, and automated CI/CD pipelines.
- Facilitate and participate in departmental tech talks and knowledge-sharing initiatives to drive modern cloud adoption.
Qualifications
- Required
- Strong expertise in Python software engineering and analytics/data libraries including NumPy, Pandas, Scikit-learn, and Dask.
- Experience with Python frameworks and SDKs including Flask, Boto3, and Dash.
- Hands-on experience with relational and analytical databases including PostgreSQL and AWS Athena.
- Experience with data pipelines and ingestion including AWS Glue ETL, S3, and data caching strategies.
- Proven hands-on experience designing and operating AWS cloud architecture using EC2 and ECS.
- Experience with serverless and orchestration services including AWS Lambda, Step Functions, SNS, and SQS.
- Experience with AWS SageMaker and CloudWatch.
- Strong grounding in microservices design, RESTful API Gateway implementation, and secure API integration.
- Experience developing modern, responsive front-end interfaces using React and/or Dash.
- Experience handling web app session states, Okta integrations, and secure authentication flows hosted on AWS.
- Hands-on experience with continuous integration and delivery tools including Bitbucket, Bamboo, Artifactory, and Ansible.
- Preferred
- Prior experience or strong interest in financial services, asset management, capital markets, or equities trading.