Software Engineer - Python

About the role

Hudson River Trading (HRT) is an algorithmic trading firm whose code is its business. It uses C++ for latency-sensitive trading paths and Python for everything else: monitoring live trading, building its distributed computing platform, processing large amounts of data and writing internal tools. As a Python Engineer you will work in cutting-edge distributed compute environments, collaborating with researchers and engineers to build high-impact products and streamline every part of the trade cycle.

Key responsibilities

• Develop software that reaches every office and department at HRT, improving existing and new systems with Python and modern software engineering.
• Improve job orchestration and scheduling in the company's large compute cluster.
• Build Python tooling and environments for all developers.
• Deploy, automate and monitor systems for global trade management and post-trade analysis.
• Build systems for hardware verification and tooling.
• Write software supporting data ETL pipelines covering market data, image and text processing.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field.
• Top developer in your current organization, measured by productivity, technical capability and helpfulness to colleagues.
• Experience deploying and maintaining applications, managing them from design through production.
• Ability to read code, understand how it works and improve it.
• Enjoys working with challenging people and spends spare time coding, tinkering and exploring.

Required skills

• Deep Python experience, with daily use of the most recent standards preferred.
• Advanced knowledge of the Python ecosystem and best practices.
• Superior design, debugging and problem-solving skills.
• Knowledge of UNIX (Linux), system and processor performance, and network communication.