Job Opportunity
Engineer – Data Visualization
Confidential | Chicago, IL
Job Summary
Leading hedge fund. Develop large data sets into easily read visualizations. Build products that help understand, visualize and interact with large data sets in new and exciting ways. Experience dealing with Big Data and a math background relevant to these data sets. Rich web development experience.
Details
Our clients, a leading hedge fund in Chicago, are looking for software engineers to work with front office researchers and traders to develop large data sets into easily read visualizations.
In this role you will be:
- Working closely with business users to build products that help understand, visualize and interact with large data sets in new and exciting ways.
- Developing a full product from inception to production, including: identifying the business needs, user experience, backend processing, production support, and product evangelism.
- Pushing the limits of browser performance by building highly interactive web based visualizations and/or plug-ins for Chrome. Yep, just Chrome. No Internet Explorer here.
- Innovation! In some cases there will be clear needs of problems that need to be solved. In other cases, you’ll be coming up with ideas yourself.
- Working primarily in JavaScript, Python and Go. If you don’t have experience with all of these – don’t worry, you’ll pick them up. And we are frequently changing our stack to adapt to the problems at hand.
- Collaborating with various Software and IT teams, Quants and trading desks.
Requirements
- Rich web development (JavaScript, HTML5, WebSockets, SVG, WebGL, etc) experience.
- Knowledge of the Chrome developer tools.
- Strong desire to build data visualization interfaces and frameworks while always keeping user experience (UX) in mind.
- Experience dealing with Big Data and a math background relevant to these data sets, such as linear algebra or machine learning.
- Backend programming (e.g. in Python, Ruby, Java, Go, etc). Ability to pick up new programming languages to suite the problem at hand.
- Development on Linux systems.
- Some Devops or system administration background would be helpful for deployment and scaling/load balancing/troubleshooting on heterogeneous hardware.
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- Job Reference #: 181843
- Min Education: BA/BS