Job Description

Our business is predicting the future, and you will be part of a team taking our business to the next level.  You will create a groundbreaking data science system for our hedge fund.   

We currently use both industry-standard and proprietary tools.  Now is the time to create something that goes beyond industry standards which is more powerful and flexible than our current proprietary technology.

This is a true greenfield project.  You will work with the President and Managing Director to specify functionality for this foundational initiative.  You will have a significant say in choosing the right tools for this task as you see fit: language, libraries, development environment, etc. You will play a key role in architecting the system.  Your ability to create effective software, combined with your gift for architecture and design, will enable us to create a system that provides advanced functionality, good performance, and most important, extensibility.

You will be integral in bringing up a new system that will ultimately have an impact on facilitating research, developing new strategies, portfolio management, and trading.  You can have immediate impact on our firm along with expansive personal development and transformational contributions in the long run.

We do not require past experience with finance, trading systems, or even private enterprise.  Our primary requirement is true world-class software skill.  For the right fit, we can offer industry-leading starting compensation as well as personal and financial growth.  This position requires a PhD and knowledge of computer science.  Compensation can be significantly higher for the right candidate. 

Company Description

The next-generation hedge fund.  For over a decade, our outstanding people, many of whom have PhDs, have been developing the next generation of technologies, ideas, and strategies.  We have been highly successful because of both our technically superior strategies and our brilliant people.  We have a close-knit group, distinguished by their interest in our shared success, half of whom are graduates from Harvard, MIT, and Cornell.  This lucrative synthesis of human and machine cognition in an intellectually rich, supportive environment is at the core of our firm.  We use high-performance real-time systems in a Linux environment.  We have experience with H-1B and green card sponsorship, and visa status is not a constraint.  All submissions kept confidential.

www.sparkim.com