Python Quartz Developer

job summary:

This role is for a Senior Python Developer within the Quantitative Investment Strategies (QIS) Technology team, responsible for the design, development, and evolution of a complex, large scale technology platform supporting the creation, calculation, lifecycle management, reporting, and hedging of QIS products. The platform supports 1,000+ live Equities QIS products and is built on a distributed, service oriented architecture on Quartz platform with stringent requirements around performance, scalability, and reliability

location: Jersey City, New Jersey

job type: Contract

salary: $70 - 80 per hour

work hours: 9am to 5pm

education: Bachelors



responsibilities:

• - Act as a senior hands on developer and technical leader for the QIS technology platform, contributing directly to core codebase.
• - Design, build, and maintain performant, scalable, and resilient services supporting creation, lifecycle management, reporting, and hedging of QIS products.
• - Enhance, maintain and redesign a highly performant, scalable, and resilient service for consuming and caching market data services.
• - Own and drive architecture and design decisions across a complex, multi service platform, ensuring alignment with business growth and performance requirements.
• - Partner closely with front office, quants, trading, and risk teams to understand requirements, address critical queries, and resolve high impact production issues.
• - Lead and contribute to the delivery of strategic projects, from requirements and design through implementation, testing, and production rollout.
• - Identify and execute opportunities for platform redesign, refactoring, and modernization, improving scalability, latency, reliability, and developer productivity.
• - Apply best practices in software engineering, including code quality, testing, observability, and operational excellence.

qualifications:

- 7+ years of hands on software development experience, with deep expertise in Python in production environments.

- Strong experience designing and implementing large scale, distributed systems with complex business logic.

- Strong experience and knowledge of Object Oriented Programming concepts.

- Proven ability to act as a technical architect, defining system designs, APIs, data flows, and inter - service interactions.

- Demonstrated experience building high performance and scalable solutions; experience with low latency systems is a significant plus.

- Experience working directly with front office or quantitative stakeholders in a capital markets environment.

- Strong knowledge of software performance optimization, concurrency, and resource management.

Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.

At Randstad Digital, we welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to make your application or interview experience a great one, please contact

Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).

This posting is open for thirty (30) days.