Senior Engineer
WorldQuant2 months ago
Delhi, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain software solutions.
- Build and maintain APIs, services, tools, and platform components for front-office quantitative workflows.
- Interface with platform users to understand use cases and support effective use of tools and services.
- Collaborate with researchers and technology teams to translate business and research requirements into engineering solutions.
- Develop scalable workflow tooling, metadata management, distributed storage, and integration capabilities.
- Research best practices and propose platform feature specifications and enhancements.
- Create tools that improve platform usability, adoption, and operational efficiency.
- Ensure solutions are reliable, secure, scalable, and aligned with engineering standards.
- Produce documentation, user guides, and technical materials.
- Collaborate with global teams across research, technology, and platform functions.
Requirements
- University degree, preferably in Computer Science, Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field.
- At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong English communication skills and experience working in a global environment.
- Expertise with software lifecycle management tools and methodologies, including Git and JIRA.
- Strong programming expertise in at least one of Python, Go, C, or C++.
- Strong working knowledge of UNIX/Linux.
- Experience designing, developing, testing, and supporting production-quality software systems.
- Ability to work directly with technical and non-technical users to understand requirements and deliver solutions.
- Knowledge of large-scale distributed systems, distributed storage platforms, workflow platforms, or data-intensive systems.
- Experience building APIs, backend services, platform tooling, or developer enablement solutions.
- Familiarity with quant research workflows, investment technology platforms, data pipelines, or front-office systems.
- Exposure to CI/CD, observability, containerization, orchestration, or cloud-native development practices.
- Interest in open architecture, graph-based frameworks, metadata-driven systems, and extensible platform design.
About WorldQuant
WorldQuant is a privately held quantitative asset management firm founded in 2007 and headquartered in Old Greenwich, Connecticut. It builds proprietary research platforms and trading infrastructure to generate predictive signals and deploy systematic investment strategies across global markets and asset classes for institutional investors. The firm manages over $7 billion in assets under management and operates a network of offices worldwide.