Job Description

Selby Jennings is partnered with a renowned proprietary trading firm on a business-critical search for a Senior Software Engineer to join their Commodity Trading team in Austin, TX (or Houston, TX). Expertise in professional python coding and data analytics and/or ML tools is required, and a background in front-office trading is preferred, however, the team is open to software engineers with impressive/notable backgrounds (such as in Big Tech and/or startups).

Responsibilities

• Develop tools and workflows to facilitate exploratory research
• Design Python APIs to boost research productivity
• Maintain and define Python research environment, optimized for data-intensive tasks
• Create web user interfaces for data exploration and presenting research findings
• Collaborate with researchers to implement studies, analytics, and production models for commodities trading
• Utilize the firm's Linux computer cluster in collaboration with the research infrastructure team
• Enhance processes for data acquisition, storage, and accessibility in collaboration with data management teams
• Construct data and ML infrastructure to make trading datasets accessible and beneficial for researchers
• Oversee production workflows for real-time forecasting, modeling, and analytics within the Linux compute environment
• Develop systems for back testing and creating systematic trading strategies, and deploy them into the production trading environment

Qualification

• Expert in python coding
• Experience in API design/usability
• Modern data technology exposure (ex: Airflow, Snowflake, Postgres, etc.)
• ML tools and/or scalability of analysis
• Data visualization exposure (Dash, Plotly, etc.)
• Comfortability in secondary coding language (C++, Rust, etc.)
• Computer Science (or similar, like mathematics)

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