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Aquatic Capital Management

Software Engineer, Early Career

Chicago; New YorkentryAdded 1 month ago

About this role

Aquatic, a quantitative investment firm, seeks early-career software engineers for their Chicago or New York offices. You'll rotate through 2-3 technology teams, working closely with senior mentors to build systems that directly impact the firm's profitability using Python or C++.

What you'll do

  • Develop software solutions in Python or C++ under senior engineer mentorship
  • Rotate through 2-3 different technology teams over the program
  • Apply software design and testing techniques including refactoring and test-driven development
  • Build systems critical to the firm's financial operations
  • Contribute to event-driven and distributed system architectures

What they're looking for

  • Python or C++ programming
  • Software design and testing methodologies
  • Event-driven architectures
  • Distributed systems
  • Quantitative analysis
  • Problem-solving in financial markets context
  • Ability to learn quickly through mentoring

Benefits

  • Base salary $150,000–$200,000 plus discretionary bonus
  • Fully paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents
  • Competitive 401(k) with employer match
  • Employer-paid life and disability insurance
  • Generous PTO, paid holidays, and competitive caregiver leave
  • Wellness programs, casual dress, snacks, lunch, game room, and team events
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Aquatic Capital Management

Aquatic Capital Management is a quantitative investment firm that builds high-performance distributed systems and infrastructure for financial markets research and trading operations. The company is hiring systems engineers, software engineers, and interns to develop low-latency platforms, manage compute infrastructure including GPU clusters, and deploy quantitative models to live trading systems.

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Likely interview questions

  • Walk us through a software project you built in Python or C++ and explain the architecture decisions you made.
  • Describe your experience with test-driven development or refactoring. How have you applied these techniques in a past project?
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