Software Developer

The Team and Your Role

You will be a part of the Enterprise Engineering team, which is responsible for design and development of foundational software utilized by applications throughout AQR, including:

§  Enterprise Cloud Platform

§  Enterprise Messaging Fabric

§  Common Data Access Framework

§  Role Based Entitlements System

§  Application Monitoring and Alerting

§  Application Configuration Management

§  Business Notifications

These foundational services are part of a larger project that streamlines the entire SDLC from project inception through to production and post-production. We build and maintain common development tools and libraries that are implemented in Java, Python and Golang. The libraries provide business applications with core functionalities needed to build any application within our environment. In addition, we provide standardized cloud-based runtime platform with necessary tooling for all AQR applications.

What You Will Bring

§  Engineering degree in Computer Science or equivalent field from top schools

§  3 to 5 years of software development experience with substantial individual contribution

§  Outstanding coding, debugging and analytical skills

§  Experience working with complex projects through the software development lifecycle

§  Experience working in a geographically spread out team

§  Hands on programming experience with mastery over at least one programming language in Java or Python

§  Strong knowledge of: Spring, Multithreading, Open Source dbase

§  Microservice architecture

§  RESTful application design

§  Experience designing and developing distributed systems

§  OOP design patterns (especially Java or Python) and data modeling

Our technology platform includes:

§  AWS

§  Kafka

§  Mesos

§  Docker

§  Redis

§  Spring Boot

§  Excellent communication skills both verbal and written

§  Demonstrated contributions to open-source software is also a plus