C++ Engineer

WorldQuant develops and deploys systematic financial strategies across a broad range of asset classes and global markets. We seek to produce high-quality predictive signals (alphas) through our proprietary research platform to employ financial strategies focused on market inefficiencies. Our teams work collaboratively to drive the production of alphas and financial strategies – the foundation of a balanced, global investment platform.

WorldQuant is built on a culture that pairs academic sensibility with accountability for results. Employees are encouraged to think openly about problems, balancing intellectualism and practicality. Excellent ideas come from anyone, anywhere. Employees are encouraged to challenge conventional thinking and possess an attitude of continuous improvement.

Our goal is to hire the best and the brightest. We value intellectual horsepower first and foremost, and people who demonstrate an outstanding talent. There is no roadmap to future success, so we need people who can help us build it.

Technologists at WorldQuant research, design, code, test and deploy firmwide platforms and tooling while working collaboratively with researchers. Our environment is relaxed yet intellectually driven. We seek people who think in code and are motivated by being around like-minded people.
The Role: We are seeking an exceptionally talented engineer to join our team. This engineer can expect to perform the following duties:

• Maintain/enhance our legacy C++-based tick data processing platform as needed, demonstrating product ownership, and helping migrate datasets to our new tick data processing platform.
• Contribute to our new, modern C++-based tick data processing platform – enhancing the platform to support additional tick data feeds across asset classes, developing/reviewing the implementation of tick data-based interval features/statistics, and adding new functionality to the platform all while maintaining high software standards and best practices.
• Collaborate with the Research and Portfolio Management organizations to facilitate the transition from our legacy platform to our new platform, supporting their price volume data needs for signal generation.

 What You Will Bring:

• High competency in C++ programming across language versions (11, 14, 17, 20, 23)
• Familiarity with build tools such as CMake
• Experience with scripting languages such as Perl and Python
• Knowledge of tick data and processing order book data
• Expertise on the SDLC, CI/CD pipelines, Git, JIRA, etc.
• Attention to detail, patience, and an agreeable disposition
• English proficiency and willingness to participate in meetings across time zones

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