Careers

We are expanding our product team with a new role, dedicated to working closely with prospective clients to build and manage a strong client pipeline, and to broaden the awareness of our platform across financial and academic institutions.

The successful candidate will be responsible for presenting to potential clients and working to secure new clients.

Main responsibilities of the role:

• Demonstrate high-level financial markets and instruments knowledge with clients and prospective clients to correctly position SIGTech as the leading quantitative research and investment platform in the market
• Proactively learn the SIGTech Python-based Platform and then lead specific product build-outs and enhancements while following the consistency and high standards of the current infrastructure
• Client pre-sales and sales interaction to explain and sell the SIGTech platforms
• Provide insight on existing clients and prospects to enhance the business development process
• Proactively input to any relevant existing marketing activities (promotions, trade shows, etc.) to capitalise on 'warm' leads and convert to sales opportunities

Essential skills and experience:

• Strong Python coding and development skills - creation of Jupyter notebooks to showcase platform features and demonstrate bespoke client requests
• Financial Services industry experience, ideally within the hedge fund or asset management space
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to build rapport and understand client needs
• Exceptional communication skills across multiple channels (e.g. phone, email, messenger applications) with the ability to tailor communication styles to the audience
• Motivated to achieve and driven by success
• Required experience 5+ years

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We are expanding the project management team to build out our next-gen quant trading platform.

You will work and coordinate cross-team technology and business projects covering all aspects of product, backend and front end development.

Main responsibilities of the role:

• Proactively monitor, track and review each item in the projects, ensuring effective timely communication and provision of information throughout the project and development lifecycle
• Provide project and change expertise to the development process, ensuring appropriate methodologies and governance are applied
• Provide support and guidance to the project team and senior stakeholders on project and new feature initiatives
• Take responsibility for day to day coordination and quality assurance

Essential skills and experience:

• Proven experience as a Project Manager in technology with track record of managing multiple concurrent projects & change requests
• Previously worked with engineering / development teams with demonstrable evidence of managing the
  implementation of complex systems.
• Excellent Agile experience
• Knowledge and experience in software for project management
• Very strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Motivated to achieve and driven by success
• Required experience: 5+ years

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We are looking for a Senior QA Engineer with 3+ years experience to:

• Create, maintain, and execute comprehensive test plans, test cases and integration tests against our python framework and platform app
• Work alongside the data engineering, platform and quant teams to squash bugs, identify issues/risks and offer suggestions/improvements
• Ensure successful deployment of microservices and components of the SIGTech platform
• Implement performance and memory monitoring tools for various systematic strategies
• Monitor and maintain strategies running in production mode
• Develop and enhance data validation checks for instruments across all asset classes

Essential skills and experience:

• Strong Python coding and development skills
• Proven experience with writing production quality code
• Highly organised, ability to adjust priorities and great attention to detail
• Motivated to achieve and driven by success

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We are looking for a QA Engineer with 2+ years experience to:

• Create, maintain, and execute comprehensive test plans, test cases and integration tests against our python framework and platform app
• Work alongside the data engineering, platform and quant teams to squash bugs, identify issues/risks and offer suggestions/improvements
• Ensure successful deployment of microservices and components of the SIGTech platform
• Implement performance and memory monitoring tools for various systematic strategies
• Monitor and maintain strategies running in production mode
• Develop and enhance data validation checks for instruments across all asset classes

Essential skills and experience:

• Strong Python coding and development skills
• Proven experience with writing production quality code
• Highly organised, ability to adjust priorities and great attention to detail
• Motivated to achieve and driven by success

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We are looking for a Quant Developer with 2+ years experience to:

• Enhance our scalability infrastructure by introducing parallel computing techniques to the framework
• Implement data requirements
• Improve the quantitative analytics framework
• Develop strategy templates to showcase the scalability of the platform

Essential skills and experience:

• Strong Python coding and development skills
• Proven experience with parallel computing packages within the python eco system
• Motivated to achieve and driven by success
• Required Experience: 2+ years

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We are looking for a Quant Developer / Analyst with 2+ years experience to:

• Enhance the research analytics in the platform according to our road map
• Investigate new techniques in quantitative research and incorporate these within the platform
• Analyse datasets for potential value
• Develop strategy templates to showcase functionalities of the platform

Essential skills:

• Strong Python coding and development skills
• Knowledge of quantitative analysis and systematic investment strategies
• Experience applying machine learning techniques
• Motivated to achieve and driven by success

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We are looking for a Quant Developer (single stocks focus) with 2+ years experience to:

• Develop and enhance the back-testing platform according to our road map
• Add quantitative analytics to meet equity business requirements
• Integrate external services with the platform
• Develop strategy templates to showcase new single stock framework capabilities

Essential skills:

• Strong Python coding and development skills
• Proven experience with writing production quality code
• Exposure to single stock investment strategies and techniques
• Motivated to achieve and driven by success

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We are looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer with a minimum of four years experience.

Main responsibilities of the role:

• Maintain and develop the SIGTech platform applications, pioneering innovative approaches to deliver the
  wider company vision
• Work alongside Data, UX & Product Teams to develop new features for the UI and back-end services whilst
  maintaining existing functionality
• Help own & take responsibility for the platform along with the rest of the team
  
• Mentor & develop other members of the team
• Keep abreast of new & developing technologies - championing/incorporating when appropriate

Essential skills and experience:

• Required experience: 4 years
• Javascript/Typescript - React / NodeJS
• Cloud Architecture

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We are looking for a Front-End Engineer with 2years + experience of Javascript - ReactJS / Node.

Main responsibilities of the role:

• Maintain and develop the UI for our SIGTech platform applications, pioneering innovative approaches to
  deliver the wider company vision
• Work alongside UX & Product Teams to develop new features and maintaining existing platform functionality
• Help own & take responsibility for the platform along with the rest of the team
• Keep abreast of new & developing technologies - championing/incorporating when appropriate

Essential skills and experience:

• Required experience: 2 years
• Javascript - ReactJS / Node

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We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer with 5+ years experience to:

• Architect and implement solutions for cloud based data platform
• Take ownership of data development projects through designing, implementation and testing phases
• Monitor current and future technology trends and make recommendations that drive improvements

Essential skills:

• Experience of implementing scalable cloud based data pipelines
• Strong Python coding and development skills
• Proven experience with writing production quality code
• Proven experience of big data technologies such as Apache Spark
• Motivated to achieve and driven by success

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We are looking for an experienced Security Engineer to join our team.

Main responsibilities of the role:

• Provide technical knowledge at all stages of the SSDLC
• Assist in designing cloud based solutions
• Identify and address vulnerabilities
• Make changes to the platform via Terraform
• Automate remedial fixes in AWS for any issues e.g. security non compliance

Essential skills and experience:

• OWASP Knowledge
• AWS infrastructure design best practices
• Detailed knowledge of AWS including networking and IAM
• Terraform

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We are expanding our development team, with a role in the Data Team. Data is a cornerstone of SIGTech’s next-gen quant trading platform. We are rapidly expanding our cloud-based data lake.

As part of the data team, you’ll be onboarding traditional financial data and alternative data sets and working closely with in-house quant developers to expose the new data in SIGTech’s highly sophisticated cloud-hosted platform for quantitative research.

Main responsibilities of the role:

• Onboarding a wide range of new data sets, sourced from many and varied data vendors, covering all asset types and frequencies from daily to real-time
• Contribute to develop our cloud based, serverless data pipelines, to expand our capacities for data on-boarding and validation

Essential skills and experience:

• 2+ years Python development in a production environment
• Financial Markets knowledge

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We are expanding our commercial team with a new role, dedicated to growing SIGTech’s business in North America.

Main responsibilities of the role:

• Oversees the planning and execution of company sales strategy aimed at driving revenue growth in North America
• Quota-carrying salesperson responsible for achieving and surpassing Annual Contract Value revenue targets and Professional Services revenue targets
• Lead cross and up-selling engagements across existing client base
• Work with the Sales Team to generate repeatable success (including team selling)
• Work with Pre-Sales to increase pipeline activity and close deals faster
• Work with Marketing team to lead and contribute to North American marketing activities
• Build and manager Channel Partnerships to drive quick growth and establish credibility
• Coordinate with Product and Professional Services teams to assist in sales process
• Provide guidance to product development following product and data requirements received in the field and understanding of any potential regulatory requirements
• Manage individual RFP processes for prospective clients
• Manage sales pipeline process and reporting as instituted in the Sales department
• Report on competitive landscape
• Act as an ambassador for the company at conferences
• Monitor customer satisfaction with existing clients to ensure service delivery

Essential skills and experience:

• At least 5 years of work experience in selling technology solutions to the front office, quants, and C-suite clients at Hedge Funds, Asset Managers, Banking QIS teams, and Pension Funds
• Experience managing Channel Partnerships
• Proven track record of generating new business and achieving revenue growth
• Ambitious and target focused with a drive to succeed
• Willing to travel (mainly in the US and Canada but occasionally to London)
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
• Proven ability and desire to quickly learn new technologies
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, to pivot and adapt to changing requirements, while maintaining a consistent attention to detail
• Enthusiastic and reliable with a strong work ethic
• A genuine team player
• Passionate about technology

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We are looking for a customer support engineer with 2+ years experience to:

• Design and implement an end-to-end support process, including client self-service support tools and front-line support functions for a highly sophisticated cloud-hosted platform for quantitative research
• Develop and maintain user testing checklists to successfully onboard and support clients
• Work closely with Product Management and Quantitative Analysis teams to help new and existing clients navigate the platform, and in resolving client issues/requests
• Implement custom/workaround solutions to meet client expectations and develop longer term solutions to avoid repeat issues
• Keep abreast of platform releases and new functionality
• Provide insight on existing client pain-points and workflow improvements to enhance the client experience, working closely with UX team

Essential skills:

• Excellent people and communication skills coupled with technical support skills and service mindset
• Team player, with the ability to work effectively and independently
• Technological background, programming knowledge essential, with Python preferred
• Graduate academic experience within finance, mathematics, computer science or engineering
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to multitask and prioritise tasks

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