Software Engineer

Edgestream Partners, L.P. is an algorithmic hedge fund founded in 2003. We build robust, high-quality software that we run and manage on a global network of compute servers. Our software implements real-time mathematical models (using Machine Learning) that trade around the clock in many of the world’s financial markets and asset classes.

We are a small group of scientists and software engineers who take pride in our software craftsmanship and are looking to add a software engineer to our team.

* Develop new features for our trading platform * Implement trading for new strategies, markets, and asset classes * Deploy, run, and oversee monitoring of our trading platform * Collect, interpret, munge, move, store, and wrangle data from a wide variety of sources * Maintain and extend our parallel, distributed computing environment

**Skills/experience that we look for in a team member:** * Python, C, Cython, NumPy, Pandas * Twisted, Git, PostgreSQL * Network programming (sockets) * Linux/UNIX: command line tools, filesystems, signals, pipes * May have at one time installed Gentoo * Once debugged a bizarre SIGSTP trap that didn’t do the right thing * Wrote an incorrect atomic-file-write function that one time * Doesn’t know how that shell line became a 500-character monster with two awks * Once got mad at your coworker for using wall * Linux kernel experience is a big plus **Characteristics that we look for in a team member:** * Loves to build high-quality software - computer programming is a passion and a profession * Enjoys learning and acquiring knowledge - quickly and independently * Dislikes complexity and strives to find simple and elegant solutions * Collaborative and team-oriented