Trexquant is a growing systematic fund manager with a core team of highly accomplished technologists. We are currently seeking an enthusiastic and skilled Data Operations Engineer with a strong operational focus to join our team. As a Data Operations Engineer, you will play a crucial role in monitoring and optimizing our trading processes, enhancing our development and deployment processes, and contributing to the overall efficiency and success of our operations. If you are passionate about optimizing operational workflows, ensuring system reliability, and driving continuous improvement, we encourage you to apply.
Responsibilities:
(1) Operational Monitoring and Troubleshooting:
- Collaborate with teams to establish robust monitoring and alerting systems that provide real-time insights into the trading process status.
- Take a proactive approach to monitoring, promptly identifying and resolving operational issues to minimize downtime and disruptions.
(2) Continuous Integration and Deployment:
- Develop, enhance, and maintain pipelines dedicated to facilitating data/alpha/strategy generation, testing, and deployment procedures.
- Foster close collaboration with research teams to ensure the smooth deployment of scripts, promoting seamless integration of research findings into practical applications.
(3) Quality Control and Assurance:
- Establish and sustain quality control measures to ensure the consistency and robustness of scripts and applications.
- Conduct regular inspections and audits of production lines to identify and rectify any quality-related issues promptly.
(4) Continuous Improvement Initiatives:
- Identify opportunities for continuous improvement within the production process, driven by data analysis and performance metrics.
- Lead or contribute to cross-functional improvement projects aimed at enhancing production efficiency and increasing overall output.
(5) Documentation and Reporting:
- Maintain accurate records of production processes, performance metrics, and quality control data.
- Generate regular reports and provide insights to management on production performance, trends, and improvement initiatives.
Requirements
- Strong working knowledge of Python and Linux is a must.
- Experience working with SQL is an advantage.
- Prior development experience in fault-tolerant distributed or data intensive applications is a plus.
- Process-driven with strong attention to detail.
- Ability and willingness to adapt to new challenges in a dynamic environment with shifting priorities.
- Background in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.
Benefits
- Competitive salary plus bonus based on individual and company performance.
- Collaborative, casual, and friendly work environment.
- PPO Health, dental and vision insurance premiums fully covered for you and your. dependents.
- Pre-tax commuter benefits.
- Weekly company meals.
Trexquant is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Skills Required
- Strong working knowledge of Python
- Strong working knowledge of Linux
- Experience working with SQL
- Prior development experience in fault-tolerant distributed or data intensive applications
- Background in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field
What We Do
Being a quantitative finance firm that uses Machine Learning (ML) to create multi-asset portfolios and seek profit from the market, Trexquant has continuously improved its investment and research platform since starting operations, leveraging new and emerging technologies. Trexquant uses rigorous quantitative methods to create multi-asset portfolios in global markets. To do this, Trexquant develops trading signals using its vast and continuously growing collection of data variables used as inputs for more complex trading models called Strategies. The result is an ever-growing and adapting engine built from thousands of intricate models and tens of thousands of signals, tailor-made with the goal to outperform the market during any condition. Capital is managed across 5,500+ cash equity positions across the United States, Europe, Japan, Australia, and Canada.
