Software Engineer - London

Software Engineer – London

Location

UK London, United Kingdom

About the Company

Two Sigma is a leading quantitative investment management and trading firm. The company applies a scientific approach to investing, combining cutting-edge technology, artificial intelligence, data science, and quantitative research with rigorous human inquiry to capitalize on market opportunities and deliver alpha for investors. Our team of engineers, quantitative researchers and data scientists looks beyond the traditional to test hypotheses and develop creative solutions to some of the world’s most complex economic problems.

Responsibilities

• Tackle the complex and interesting challenge of discovering value hidden in the world’s data through software engineering.
• Develop and maintain robust data pipelines that ingest over 30TB of data each day.
• Create infrastructure that is used by all of our software engineers.
• Build and maintain a suite of analysis tools that enable our quantitative researchers.
• Work on premier trading systems.
• Build technologies that bolster our trading businesses and drive productivity enhancements, teamwork, and risk reduction across the company.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor's with Honours in a relevant discipline is required.
• Minimum 1 year of experience required; 5–10 years preferred.
• An understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Experience with Java (or other JVM languages), Python, C or C++.
• Extraordinary programming skills.
• Demonstrated experience in large-scale systems.