Core Web Engineer, Hudson River Trading

$175-250k

React

TypeScript

Redux

JavaScript

Python

C++

Unix

Junior, Mid and Senior level

Chicago

Automated trading algorithms developer

Job no longer available

Automated trading algorithms developer

1001+ employees

B2BInvestingTradingMachine Learning

Job no longer available

$175-250k

React

TypeScript

Redux

JavaScript

Python

C++

Unix

Junior, Mid and Senior level

Chicago

1001+ employees

B2BInvestingTradingMachine Learning

Company mission

To bring a scientific and technological approach to financial trading.

Job

Company

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 with JavaScript and/or TypeScript
Experience with Python and/or C++
Experience with React/Redux is a plus
Experience as a professional full-stack developer 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 a 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 a 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 and trading 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 to writing backend services in Python or C++

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 further success.