1 month ago
New York, NY, USAMid Level / Senior
Base Salary
$150k - $175k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build, deploy, and maintain internal FastAPI APIs and backend services for portfolio analytics, market data, and quantitative outputs.
- Own scheduled data pipelines and orchestration workflows using Prefect in Docker and Kubernetes environments.
- Implement and operate AI capabilities involving LLM APIs, MCP servers, agentic workflows, and multi-model architectures.
- Build and maintain a reusable, documented, model-agnostic AI plugin and skills library for investment professionals.
- Develop and own PostgreSQL databases supporting research, portfolio, and operational workflows.
- Contribute to engineering practices including version control, CI/CD pipelines, testing, documentation, and firmwide best practices.
- Work directly with quant researchers, investment professionals, COO management, and central Technology teams to identify, scope, deliver, and maintain practical solutions.
Requirements
- 2–5 years of experience in quantitative development, development strategy, analytics engineering, quantitative analysis, or a relevant role at a financial institution or data provider.
- Strong Python proficiency, object-oriented software development skills, SQL knowledge, and PostgreSQL database design experience.
- Production experience building and deploying backend services and APIs with FastAPI or an equivalent framework.
- Hands-on experience integrating AI and LLM systems across multiple model providers, including API usage, prompt engineering, tool use, and retrieval-augmented workflows.
- Practical familiarity with MCP servers, agentic frameworks, or multi-model orchestration architectures.
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or similar tools.
- Experience with AWS, EC2, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tooling, and workflow orchestration frameworks such as Prefect or Airflow.
- Sound software engineering fundamentals including version control, CI/CD, structured codebases, documentation, and testing.
- Preferred experience building Streamlit or React interfaces, integrating alternative data or vendor APIs, or working at a hedge fund or multi-manager platform.
- Interest in financial markets and the investment process, along with the ability to work proactively and collaboratively across technical and non-technical teams.
Benefits
- The role offers learning and educational opportunities, internal networks, external partnerships, and service initiatives promoting inclusion and purpose.
- The position is eligible for a competitive benefits package and may also be eligible for performance-based compensation.
- The stated base pay range is $150k–$175k; additional compensation details are excluded from benefits.
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