Software Engineer

Edgestream Partners, L.P. is an algorithmic hedge fund founded in 2003. We build robust, high-quality software that we run and manage on a global network of compute servers. Our software implements real-time mathematical models (using Machine Learning) that trade around the clock in many of the world’s financial markets and asset classes.

We are a small group of scientists and software engineers who take pride in our software craftsmanship and are looking to add a software engineer to our team.

• Develop new features for our trading platform
• Implement trading for new strategies, markets, and asset classes
• Deploy, run, and oversee monitoring of our trading platform
• Collect, interpret, munge, move, store, and wrangle data from a wide variety of sources
• Maintain and extend our parallel, distributed computing environment

Skills/experience that we look for in a team member:

• Python, C, Cython, NumPy, Pandas
• Twisted, Git, PostgreSQL
• Network programming (sockets)
• Linux/UNIX: command line tools, filesystems, signals, pipes
  • May have at one time installed Gentoo
  • Once debugged a bizarre SIGSTP trap that didn’t do the right thing
  • Wrote an incorrect atomic-file-write function that one time
  • Doesn’t know how that shell line became a 500-character monster with two awks
  • Once got mad at your coworker for using wall
• Linux kernel experience is a big plus

Characteristics that we look for in a team member:

• Loves to build high-quality software - computer programming is a passion and a profession
• Enjoys learning and acquiring knowledge - quickly and independently
• Dislikes complexity and strives to find simple and elegant solutions
• Collaborative and team-oriented