Python Full Stack Engineer

Job title:

Python Full Stack Engineer

Company:

WorldQuant

Job description

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 and portfolio managers. Our environment is relaxed yet intellectually driven. We seek people who think in code and are motivated by being around like-minded people.About WorldQuant BRAIN:BRAIN is a group within WorldQuant similar to a traditional B2C fintech setup. Our mission is to simplify quant finance and provide global remote-work opportunities to participants, while they learn quant finance, AI and ML concepts. WorldQuant BRAIN provides an advanced crowdsourcing platform for external participants to contribute signals, data, and more.What You’ll Do:

• Develop backend application services and APIs.
• Integrate with AWS and external cloud services.
• Develop complex single page applications.
• Optimize application for speed and scalability.
• Build reusable components for usage across interfaces.
• Develop responsive layouts for desktop and mobile devices.
• Automate UI testing processes.
• Be an active member of an agile engineering team who is continuously looking to improve team performance.
• Work with leading cloud technologies (such as AWS, GCP).
• Work with leading open-source technologies (such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, ELK stack, Sentry, Redis, Git, etc.).
• Participate in periodic on-call duties.

What You’ll Bring:

• Passion about software engineering, be strongly driven to build and run real-world applications at scale.
• Eagerness to learn and introduce new technologies. Be curious about what’s happening in the tech world.
• Excellent coding skills, solid understanding of the broad Python ecosystem including Numpy, Pandas and Asyncio.
• Expertise in Python web frameworks such as Django, DRF, Flask and others.
• Experience with client side frameworks and libraries that interact with server side APIs such as React, Angular, Vue.js, Svelte, TypeScript, etc.
• Ability to design detailed user interface features based on high-level requirements.
• Demonstrated experience developing scalable and robust software.
• Experience with SQL databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL).
• Experience with microservices, caching tools, data visualization, log collection and aggregation, search, queuing systems.
• Experience with Linux environment and shell scripting.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline or equivalent job experience.
• Excellent debugging and problem solving skills.

What We Offer:

• Competitive compensation package
• Core benefits include: premium private health insurance and life insurance with savings plan
• Support for every aspect of life through Employee Assistance Program and fully covered sick leave
• Strong culture of learning and development: training courses, library, guest speakers, share and learn events, global conferences
• Regular offsite team buildings, annual conferences and occasional global summits – opportunity to travel and connect with our local and global teams
• Employee resources groups with strong diversity and inclusion culture

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Expected salary

Location

Budapest

Job date

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 23:09:10 GMT

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