Software Engineer

About the company

Our client is a financial technology company.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Own software projects from first idea through to production in a small, high-autonomy engineering team. Build and extend data, research and execution systems, and work closely with researchers on modeling. The role spans a broad range of problems and rewards curiosity and independent thinking.

What you'll do

- Take projects from concept through implementation and into production, owning them end to end.

- Build and extend existing systems, or create new ones, for data pipelines, signal generation and research infrastructure.

- Develop automated execution systems and internal tooling that shorten the path from idea to live experiment.

- Partner directly with quantitative and AI researchers on new modeling approaches.

- Contribute across several technical areas, including low-latency infrastructure, security and machine learning.

Requirements

What we're looking for

- Degree in computer science, math, statistics or physics.

- Experience building and shipping a project end to end as the owner, from first idea to production.

- Hands-on background in financial or trading software, data platforms, or a fintech or crypto environment.

- Exceptional software engineering skills in Python or C++.

- A solid grasp of statistics and the ability to draw sound conclusions from messy, imperfect data.

- Experience with AI-assisted development workflows.

- Ability to work on-site in the office five days a week.

- Roughly 1 to 5 years of experience, with curiosity about financial markets and comfort with ambiguity.

Bonus points

- Prior internship at a quantitative trading firm.

Benefits

Compensation and benefits

- Base salary: USD 200,000 to 300,000 per year

- Ownership stake in the company

- Performance bonus

Location and work model

- Palo Alto, CA, United States

- On-site, 5 days per week in office

- Full-time