Core Web Engineer, Hudson River Trading
Automated trading algorithms developer
Open for applications
Automated trading algorithms developer
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
Hudson River Trading's mission is to bring a scientific and technological approach to financial trading.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- Solid backend coding practices, building well-tested, reliable systems
- Excellent coding, debugging, and problem solving skills
- Strong Computer Science fundamentals
- Working knowledge of UNIX operating systems
- Experience as a professional full-stack developer is a plus
- Experience with Typescript/React/Redux is a plus
- Experience with Python and/or C++ is a plus
- Passion for UX and building human-focused technological solutions
- Willingness to learn and grow as an engineer
- You really like to work with people who challenge you and make you better at what you do
What the job involves
- Hudson River Trading (HRT) is looking for an Core Web Engineer to join the team
- In this role, you will build UIs and backend processes to support our Algo Developers (ADs) and Traders in overseeing trading processes, executing manual trades, assessing risk, and researching improvements to our strategies
- This is impactful work; many of the UIs are generating and interpreting the complex strategies being deployed at the scale of HRT, with vast quantities of the world's market and financial data
- As an Core Web Engineer, you will contribute significantly to our trading infrastructure as a whole
- You’ll be working with ADs, Core Engineers, and others to build backend processes to ingest and transform large quantities of data and front ends to visualize that data quickly
- You will have the opportunity to generate your own ideas about new features or products, and own the implementation of significant pieces of our research infrastructure
- You will get to see how your products are used daily in creating trading strategies, and ultimately the impact they will have on HRT’s success
- Core Web Engineers work across a variety of technologies from building Web Applications in Typescript with React and Redux, spinning up dashboards with python’s Dash Plotly, to writing backend services in Python or C++
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Our take
Hudson River Trading is a quantitative trading firm founded by a team of experienced venture capital experts, including computer scientists, mathematicians, and software engineers. It aims to bring a more scientific and mathematical approach to trading, operating a computing environment for the research and development of trading algorithms.
HRT's team includes a number of mathematicians, engineers and physicists. This academic approach has paid off, with HRT now having several offices around the world and boasting billions in trading capital. The firm is also a part of the DeFi Pyth network, marking a move towards crypto equity, which gives it access to an even wider range of investors and capital.
Although the trading market is crowded, HRT has proved the value of its code-first approach to trading and hence found a space for itself. HRT now invests in new blockchain companies that share its values. The company continues to innovate, which should provide the path to finding further success.
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Company benefits
- MERIT: Our people are motivated by a culture that promotes hard work and intellect over corporate politics.
- MEALS & SNACKS: HRTers enjoy breakfast and lunch together (chef-prepared in NYC, reimbursement or catered options for other offices), healthy snacks, a coffee bar, and a well-stocked beer and wine fridge.
- COMFORT: If you come to work dressed up, expect to explain what you’re doing that night for the rest of the day.
- FITNESS: On-site cardio and weight room in NYC (fitness reimbursement for other offices), regular yoga classes, and a 7-Minute Workout club.
- SOCIAL AT HRT: Our social calendar includes regular happy hours, outings, team dinners, and sports.
- PLAY TANK: Unwind at the end of a long day with video games, board games, foosball, or table tennis.
- VACATION: Generous paid vacation plus personal days and market holidays (or days in lieu).
- HEALTH: Generously subsidized healthcare coverage, vision and company paid dental insurance, paid time off for sick days, paid medical/disability leave, and fully covered access to a mental health counselor, as well as access to the Modern Health platform.
- FAMILY TIME: 12-week paid parental leave policy and family friendly events.
- EDUCATION: Tuition assistance, professional development, and on-the-job training.
Company values
- Automation & Efficiency: We are disciples of automation and efficiency trading millions of times a day in markets around the globe. At its core, HRT is a small tech company with a big footprint.
- Code of Ethics: Our internal code of ethics far exceeds the expectations of the regulatory environment in which we operate. We are conscientious market participants advocating for fair and transparent markets for everyone. This philosophy influences every aspect of our research.
- Make it Better: Both as individuals and as a company we are tenacious. We are insatiable innovators looking to improve every aspect of our business. We don’t settle until we make it better.
- Collaboration: Collaboration sets HRT apart within our industry. We count among us many brilliant minds, but we’ve learned that the best ideas are born in a shared research and development environment.
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: At HRT, we celebrate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Our culture is a reflection of the individuals, across race, gender identity and expression, age, religion and worship practices, education status, nationality, and identity, who bring their varied perspectives to work.
- Togetherness: HRT is a community of friends and colleagues. Whether we are sharing a meal or competing over a game of ping pong, HRT embraces a culture of togetherness that extends far beyond the walls of our office.
Company HQ
World Trade Center, New York, NY
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Leadership
Jason Caroll
(Managing Director)Previously worked as an Analyst at Tower Research Capital.
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