Quantitative Front Office Engineer

4 weeks ago

Greenwich, United States AQR Full time
About AQR Capital Management

AQR is a global investment firm built at the intersection of financial theory and practical application. We strive to deliver concrete, long-term results by looking past market noise to identify and isolate the factors that matter most, and by developing ideas that stand up to rigorous testing. By putting theory into practice, we have become a leader in alternative strategies and an innovator in traditional portfolio management since 1998.

At AQR, our employees share a common spirit of academic excellence, intellectual honesty and an unwavering commitment to seeking the truth. We're determined to know what makes financial markets tick - and we'll ask every question and challenge every assumption. We recognize and respect the power of collaboration and believe transparency and openness to new ideas leads to innovation.

The Team

AQR's Research Engineering team is seeking a strong technical engineer to strengthen our business initiatives in QRD, focused on our Specialized Investments Group.

The process of turning quantitative insights into actionable investment strategies is a critical component of AQR's success, and as a Portfolio Implementation Engineer you play a significant role in driving this process. AQR has a sophisticated low touch systematic rebalancing platform that helps us manage all strategies and order generation workflows at AQR. Your work will be crucial into enhancing our proprietary portfolio rebalancing platform, a key differentiator that drives the success of our systematic investment process. Our focus on optimal portfolio construction across our diverse strategies and overall investment platform is incredibly important. QRD is a highly selective, deeply technical team that collaborates with researchers and portfolio managers, while simultaneously exploring new technologies that advance the capabilities of our platform. The specialized investment group focuses especially on our growing flex tax-aware products and other related strategies and leads a significant growth area of the firm. It interacts with research, portfolio implementation, and business development and includes a significant data and tool ecosystem that helps enable and scale the business.

Your Role

As a software engineer at AQR, you will build or extend our:
  • Data and services platforms, optimization, and orchestration and validation engines
  • SIG Tools, data and API infrastructure incorporating millions of data points
  • Intuitive research APIs leveraging cloud computing and cutting-edge visualizations
  • High-performance historical simulation/back testing engine for vetting new product launches
  • Bespoke technology solutions that satisfy the needs of specific asset classes and research needs
This role will require you to be in the office 2-3 days per week

What You'll Bring
  • 3+ years of experience as a programmer with expertise in Python, NumPy and Pandas or similar quantitative stack.
  • Experience with SQL (SQL Server & Postgres preferred) is required.
  • Ability to design elegant solutions and the ability to translate design into high quality code.
  • Mastery of design patterns and object-oriented programming techniques
  • Strong understanding of best practices for large scale application design, SOA, microservices, distributed compute, containers, and use of the cloud.
  • Strong attention to detail, passion for careful testing
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to work with global team members
  • Ability to work with your business colleagues and collaborate on solutions and coordinate work across the team.
  • Understanding or experience in (quant) finance a large plus
Who You Are
  • Mature, thoughtful, and collaborative
  • Hard-working and eager to learn
  • Committed to intellectual integrity and transparency
  • Motivated by the transformational effects of technology-at-scale

The salary range for this role is expected to be $145,000 to $165,000. This is the range that we in good faith believe is accurate for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, depending upon factors such as skills, experience, location, or other business and organizational needs. This wage range may also be modified in the future.

This job is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus.

We offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, 401(k), and any other benefits to eligible employees.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company's sole discretion, consistent with the law.

AQR is an Equal Opportunity Employer. EEO/VET/DISABILITY

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