About the job
Risk Technology is at the forefront of developing essential services and systems that support Squarepoint’s systematic and quantitative trading strategies. This includes real-time risk controls, position/inventory/P&L monitoring, internal order routing, and various pre and post-trading services.
Risk Data Pipelines is focused on creating robust software solutions built on the core Risk Technology platform, designed to efficiently handle market or asset-class specific processing. Key responsibilities include:
- Trade Data Ingress: Normalizing and streaming trade data from trading platforms like Bloomberg, Fidessa, and SpiderRock into Squarepoint's systems.
- Trade Data Egress: Providing feeds to third-party platforms to ensure trade booking accuracy and compliance with regulations.
- Services and Analytics: Developing tools used by investment and quantitative teams to assess risk exposure, P&L, and enhance capital efficiency.
- Automation of Trading Operations: Supporting business growth through the management of options & futures expiry and automating trade, position, and P&L reconciliations.
This role offers a unique opportunity to gain insights into hedge fund operations through close collaboration with trading and quantitative teams. As a developer, you will:
- Design, develop, and deliver high-quality, maintainable software that is critical to the business.
- Work closely with stakeholders and colleagues to gather requirements, define architecture and technologies, identify and resolve bottlenecks, and implement functionality.
- Lead design discussions and mentor fellow team members.
- Engage in level 2 support activities.

