Senior Engineer

WorldQuant

External5+ yearsPosted about 1 month ago

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Overview

Position Type

External

Experience

5+ years

Job Description

What You’ll Do

  • Participate in the design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of solutions
  • Build and maintain APIs, services, tools, and platform components that enable seamless integration with front-office quant workflows.
  • Interface with users of the platform to understand their use cases and help them make effective use of available tools and services.
  • Work closely with researchers and technology teams to translate business and research needs into practical engineering solutions.
  • Contribute to scalable platform capabilities, including workflow tooling, metadata management, distributed storage, and integration services.
  • Research best practices and propose feature specifications and enhancements for the platform roadmap.
  • Develop and maintain tools that complement the core platform offering and improve usability, adoption, and operational efficiency.
  • Ensure solutions are reliable, secure, scalable, and aligned with firmwide engineering standards.
  • Produce clear documentation, user guides, and technical materials to support adoption and long-term maintainability.
  • Collaborate with global teams in an open, intellectually curious, and delivery-focused environment.

What You’ll Bring

  • University degree, preferably in Computer Science, Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field.
  • At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience.
  • Strong English communication skills and experience working in a global environment.
  • Expertise in software lifecycle management methodologies and tools, including Git and JIRA.
  • Strong programming expertise in at least one of the following: Python, Go, C, or C++.
  • Strong working knowledge of UNIX/Linux.
  • Experience designing, developing, testing, and supporting production-quality software systems.
  • Ability to work directly with technical and non-technical users to understand requirements and deliver effective solutions.
  • Knowledge of the design and development of large-scale distributed systems, distributed storage platforms, workflow platforms, or data-intensive systems.
  • Experience building APIs, backend services, platform tooling, or developer enablement solutions.
  • Familiarity with quant research workflows, investment technology platforms, data pipelines, or front-office systems.
  • Exposure to CI/CD, observability, containerization, orchestration, or cloud-native development practices.
  • Interest in open architecture, graph-based frameworks, metadata-driven systems, and extensible platform design.

Required Skills

PythonGoCGitJiraUnix LinuxSoftware Life Cycle ManagementDistributed SystemsAp IsBackend ServicesPlatform ToolingResearch WorkflowsCi CdObservability

About the Company

WorldQuant

Delhi, India

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