Quantitative Developer

Job Description

Job Description

Quant / Data Engineer - Systematic Trading Pod (NYC)

A leading multi‑strategy investment firm is seeking a Quant / Data Engineer to join a lean, research‑driven trading pod. This front‑office role works directly with the portfolio manager and researchers to build the data foundation powering both research and live trading.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain pipelines for market, alternative, and fundamental data
• Integrate exchange and vendor feeds across equities, futures, and FX
• Develop batch + streaming ingestion systems
• Implement data quality checks (schema, anomaly detection, completeness / timeliness)
• Manage research‑ready datasets, backfills, and reproducibility workflows
• Work across cloud warehouses and lakehouse systems (Snowflake, Redshift, S3 / Iceberg)
• Own orchestration and monitoring (Airflow / Prefect, SLAs, incident response)

Ideal Background

Why This Role

Company Description

Operating as part of Phaidon International, Selby Jennings is a multi-award winning global recruitment organization focused on servicing the financial industry.

By breaking down financial markets into individual niches and micro-specialisms, Selby Jennings powers a knowledge-led model, delivering global solutions into local markets. Every consultant is an expert in their field. Structuring our teams to mirror the demands of our clients and candidates, we identify, qualify and present the highest caliber candidates, as well as identifying the best market opportunities for leading finance professionals.

We work in partnership with clients to tailor-make a suitable search model based on the type of assignment and client service level requirements, adopting a bespoke combination of solutions to ensure optimum reach into the active and passive market places.

From our offices around the world, we recruit beyond international boundaries, pro-actively sourcing the best talent in the industry. Across contingent, retained, and project solutions, our service is unrivaled; speaking to our level of service provision, search accuracy, and flexibility.

Company Description

Operating as part of Phaidon International, Selby Jennings is a multi-award winning global recruitment organization focused on servicing the financial industry.\r\n\r\nBy breaking down financial markets into individual niches and micro-specialisms, Selby Jennings powers a knowledge-led model, delivering global solutions into local markets. Every consultant is an expert in their field. Structuring our teams to mirror the demands of our clients and candidates, we identify, qualify and present the highest caliber candidates, as well as identifying the best market opportunities for leading finance professionals.\r\n\r\nWe work in partnership with clients to tailor-make a suitable search model based on the type of assignment and client service level requirements, adopting a bespoke combination of solutions to ensure optimum reach into the active and passive market places.\r\n\r\nFrom our offices around the world, we recruit beyond international boundaries, pro-actively sourcing the best talent in the industry. Across contingent, retained, and project solutions, our service is unrivaled; speaking to our level of service provision, search accuracy, and flexibility.