Software Engineer - Risk (Python)

Job Function Summary

Millennium is a top tier global hedge fund with a strong commitment to leveraging innovations in technology and data science to solve complex problems for the business. We are assembling a strong technology team to build our next generation in-house risk and analytics tools. This team will develop and maintain the in-house VaR systems to support risk management and trading in Equities, Fixed Income, Commodities, Credit and FX business at Millennium provides a dynamic and fast-paced environment with excellent growth opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with quants, risk managers and other technologies in New York, London, Tel Aviv, and Miami to develop multi-asset analytics, stress and VaR for our in-house risk and guidelines platform

Mandatory Requirements

• Strong analytical and mathematical skills, with interest and/or exposure to quantitative finance

• At least a BSc in Computer Science or related field.

• Substantial experience using Python

• Experience working with Git / GitHub

• Experience with building Micro-Services (ie Flask / FAST API)

• Good understanding of various Design Patterns, Algorithms & Data structure

• SQL Database development

• Detail oriented, organized, demonstrating thoroughness and strong ownership of work

• Experience working in a production environment

Preferred Requirements

• Experience with financial mathematics and statistics

• Experience with Kafka and Event-driven design

• Experience with at least one cloud provider ( AWS Preferred )

• Experience with Caching technologies - Redis