Senior Software Engineer
WorldQuantNew York, New York, United States • Connecticut, United States • Chicago, Illinois, United States • Austin, Texas, United States
Posted July 24, 2025
175000 - 250000 USD year
Full Time
About the Company
WorldQuant is a total compensation organization that values intellectual horsepower and encourages employees to think openly about problems.
Job Description
WorldQuant is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their team in building software enabling large-scale quantitative research operations and portfolio production. The ideal candidate will have experience in C++ on Linux platform, strong understanding of Linux system programming fundamentals, and ability to develop large-scale, distributed systems.
Requirements
- Minimum 7 years of writing production-quality code in C++ on Linux platform
- Strong understanding and experience with Linux system programming fundamentals
- Ability to develop large-scale, distributed systems
- Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, high-performance application design, and concurrency patterns
- Self-motivated and able to work independently with minimal direction
- Proficiency in English
Benefits
- Fully paid medical and dental insurance for employees and dependents
- Flexible spending account
- 401k
- Fully paid parental leave
- Generous PTO (paid time off)
- Employee discounts for gym memberships, wellness activities, healthy snacks, casual dress code
- Training: learning and development courses, speakers, team-building off-site
- Employee resource groups
