Solution Engineer

Technologists at WorldQuant research, design, code, test and deploy firmwide platforms and tooling while working collaboratively with researchers and portfolio managers. Our environment is relaxed yet intellectually driven. We seek people who think in code and are motivated by being around like-minded people.

The Role:

• Participate in the development and maintenance of our large-scale, distributed storage platform.
• Interface with the users of the system to understand their use-cases and assist them in making the best use of our tools and platforms
• Research best practices and propose feature specifications for our platform roadmap
• Develop and maintain features and tools that complement our core platform offering
• Provide technical support, diagnosing the root causes of technical problems and suggesting appropriate solutions.

What You'll Bring:

• University Degree, preferably in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related fields.
• At least 5 years of work experience.
• Strong (English) communications skills and experience working in a global environment
• Expertise in Software Life Cycle management methodologies and tools, including Git and JIRA (required)
• Expertise in C/C++ including STL and Boost, and/or Go and/or Python (at least one required)
• UNIX/Linux (required).
• Knowledge on the design and development of large-scale, distributed storage systems (desirable)
• Experience acting in a product owner or technical sales engineer role (desirable)

What We Offer:

• Competitive compensation package 
• Core benefits include: premium private health insurance and life insurance with savings plan  
• Support for every aspect of life through Employee Assistance Program and fully covered sick leave 
• Strong culture of learning and development: training courses, library, guest speakers, share and learn events, global conferences 
• Regular offsite team buildings, annual conferences and occasional global summits – opportunity to travel and connect with our local and global teams 
• Employee resources groups with strong diversity and inclusion culture