Technologists at WorldQuant research, design, code, test and deploy firmwide platforms and tooling while working collaboratively with researchers. Our environment is relaxed yet intellectually driven. We seek people who think in code and are motivated by being around like-minded people.

• 5+ years professional software development experience with a strong focus on backend systems
• Computer Science Fundamentals: Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, system design, and software architecture principles
• Database Proficiency: Deep understanding of database systems, query optimization, schema design, and data modeling
• Network Knowledge: Solid grasp of network protocols, API design, and secure communication implementations
• Full-Stack Understanding: Familiarity with modern web architecture, frontend technologies, and how components interact across the stack
• Proven ability to design and build scalable, maintainable systems
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience developing and maintaining production Python applications
• Experience with distributed systems design
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools
• Background in performance optimization and systems scalability
• History of contributions to significant technical projects

What We Offer:

• Competitive and attractive compensation package with clear career road-map – where you feel challenged everyday
• We offer a strong culture of learning and development: training courses, library, speakers, share and learn events
• Learn from who sits next to you! Working in WQ you are surrounded by smart and talented people
• Premium Health Insurance and Employee Assistance Program
• Generous time-off policy, re-creation sabbatical leave (based on tenure), Trade Union benefits for staff and family
• Team building activities every month: Local engagement events – Employee clubs: football, ping-pong, badminton, yoga, running, PS5, movies, etc.
• Annual company trip and occasional global conferences – opportunity to travel and connect with our global teams
• Happy-hour with tea break, snacks and meals every day in the office!
  
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What You'll Do:

• Architect As-A-Service solutions based on Open Source Software.
• Work within the team on the various products that the team supports.
• Develop tools to improve our ability to rapidly deploy and effectively monitor services in a large-scale distributed environment.
• Work with teams to design, develop, and implement innovative software solutions related to the DevOps and Agile transformation of the enterprise.
• Participate in periodic on-call duties.
• Collaborate with peers both inside and outside your team.

What You’ll Bring:

• Solid understanding and experience working with Linux based systems.
• Proficiency in Python for building APIs, developing automation scripts, and creating operational tools.
• Experience with modern authentication and authorization protocols such as OIDC, SAML, and Kerberos to ensure secure access to our platforms.
• Strong working knowledge of container orchestration with Kubernetes (K8s) is highly preferred. Experience with other cluster management systems like Slurm is a plus, especially if you have a background in large-scale computational environments.
• Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to automate the provisioning and management of our infrastructure, using tools like Terraform, Ansible, and Helm.
• Hands-on knowledge with containerization systems such as Docker or Podman.
• Experience with CI/CD, GitLab (preferred), GitHub or Git.
• Experience with agile development.
• A strong background in observability, with experience in monitoring and logging using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and the OpenTelemetry (OTEL) stack.
• Experience using AI/LLM-powered tools and its concepts (MCPs, A2A,…) to support your development workflow is a plus.
• A great team attitude (our job is to make life easier for other teams!).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.

What We Offer:

• Competitive and attractive compensation package with clear career road-map – where you feel challenged everyday
• We offer a strong culture of learning and development: training courses, library, speakers, share and learn events
• Learn from who sits next to you! Working in WQ you are surrounded by smart and talented people
• Premium Health Insurance and Employee Assistance Program
• Generous time-off policy, re-creation sabbatical leave (based on tenure), Trade Union benefits for staff and family
• Team building activities every month: Local engagement events – Employee clubs: football, ping-pong, badminton, yoga, running, PS5, movies, etc.
• Annual company trip and occasional global conferences – opportunity to travel and connect with our global teams
• Happy-hour with tea break, snacks and meals every day in the office!

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Technologists at WorldQuant research, design, code, test and deploy firmwide platforms and tooling while working collaboratively with researchers. Our environment is relaxed yet intellectually driven. We seek people who think in code and are motivated by being around like-minded people.

The Role: We're seeking a senior developer to join our team. You will design, build, and operate large-scale data and ETL systems that power the firm's research and investment workflows. This is a high-autonomy role - you'll own critical systems end-to-end, make architectural decisions, and deliver solutions with minimal guidance. We need someone who is self-directed, able to lead themselves, take ownership of outcomes, and drive complex problems to resolution independently. You should be comfortable communicating across teams, articulating technical trade-offs to stakeholders, and mentoring others through code review and collaboration.

What You'll Do:

• Design, develop, and own backend services and data pipelines that process large volumes of data optimally and at scale
• Architect data storage and processing solutions, including schema design, query optimization, and data modeling
• Build and maintain APIs, messaging systems, and integration layers that connect data producers and consumers
• Drive technical decisions - evaluate trade-offs, choose the right tools, and define system boundaries
• Take ambiguous requirements and break them down into deliverable, well-engineered solutions
• Diagnose and resolve complex production issues - applying strong analytical and systems thinking
• Improve engineering practices: testing, CI/CD, observability, and documentation

What You'll Bring:

• 8+ years of professional software development experience
• Strong programming proficiency: Mastery of at least one major programming language (Python, Java, Go, C++, or equivalent). Beyond syntax fluency, you should understand language internals and be able to apply that depth to write performant, reliable code
• System design: Proven ability to architect distributed, scalable, and fault-tolerant systems. Understanding of common patterns - event-driven architecture, service decomposition, data partitioning, caching strategies
• Data engineering: Experience building ETL/ELT pipelines, working with batch and streaming data, and handling large-scale data processing
• Database proficiency: Deep understanding of relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and familiarity with analytical/columnar stores; strong SQL skills including query optimization
• Software engineering depth: Strong grasp of data structures, algorithms, design patterns, and software architecture principles - applied in production, not just theory
• API design: Experience designing clean, well-documented REST/gRPC APIs
• Incident response mindset: Ability to diagnose production issues methodically, drive root-cause analysis, and feed into post-mortems and operational improvement
• AI-agent readiness: Openness to working alongside AI coding agents and LLM-powered tools as part of the development workflow - using AI as a force multiplier for code generation, review, debugging, and documentation
• Nice to Have:
  • Python mastery: Advanced knowledge of Python internals, concurrency (asyncio, threading, multiprocessing), performance profiling, packaging, and strong experience with frameworks such as FastAPI/Flask, SQLAlchemy, pytest, and mypy/type annotations
  • Observability and distributed tracing: Experience with monitoring and observability stacks - metrics, structured logging, distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry, Grafana, ELK) - for diagnosing system behavior and bottlenecks in production
  • DevOps practices: Familiarity with containerization (Docker), CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, Jenkins), and infrastructure-as-code (Ansible, Terraform)
  • Programming language versatility: Proficiency in additional languages that complement data platform work - C++ for performance-critical systems, Scala for distributed data processing with Apache Spark, or Rust for high-performance data engineering
  • Team leadership and management: Experience leading a development team, running sprints, conducting code reviews, mentoring engineers, and managing stakeholders' expectations
  • Message queues and streaming: Experience with Kafka, Redis, or similar event-driven architectures
  • Data orchestration: Exposure to Airflow or similar workflow orchestration frameworks
  • Frontend / full-stack awareness: Familiarity with modern web technologies (React, TypeScript) for building internal UIs and dashboards
  • Financial services or quantitative finance background
  • Open-source contributions or a public portfolio of technical work

What We Offer:

• Competitive and attractive compensation package with clear career road-map – where you feel challenged everyday
• We offer a strong culture of learning and development: training courses, library, speakers, share and learn events
• Learn from who sits next to you! Working in WQ you are surrounded by smart and talented people
• Premium Health Insurance and Employee Assistance Program
• Generous time-off policy, re-creation sabbatical leave (based on tenure), Trade Union benefits for staff and family
• Team building activities every month: Local engagement events – Employee clubs: football, ping-pong, badminton, yoga, running, PS5, movies, etc.
• Annual company trip and occasional global conferences – opportunity to travel and connect with our global teams
• Happy-hour with tea break, snacks and meals every day in the office!

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Required:

• 3+ in Windows desktop application development using Windows App SDK, WinUI (or similar), C#, XAML — and ideally additional experience with native Windows code (C++, Win32/WinRT/COM).
• Deep understanding of Windows application architecture, including interop between managed code (.NET) and native code.
• Proven track record of designing, building, and shipping production-quality desktop applications, with an emphasis on reliability, performance, scalability, and maintainability.
• Strong experience with accessibility APIs on Windows (e.g. Microsoft UI Automation or similar), and a dedication to building accessible and inclusive software.
• Excellent software engineering fundamentals: OOP, design patterns, data structures, algorithms, memory management, multi-threading or asynchronous programming (where relevant).
• Experience leading technical design, mentoring other engineers, conducting code reviews, and making architecture-level decisions.
• Strong communication skills; ability to articulate tradeoffs, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive consensus.
• A user-centric mindset: focus on building polished, intuitive, and accessible experiences for end users.

Preferred / Bonus:

• Experience with writing automated tests for UI — unit tests, integration tests, UI automation tests; familiarity with relevant testing frameworks.
• Experience with performance optimization for desktop apps (memory usage, startup time, rendering performance, high-DPI support, responsiveness under load).
• Experience with localization/globalization, right-to-left UI support, internationalization, accessibility for multiple regions.
• Familiarity with telemetry, analytics, crash reporting, logging, and error monitoring in desktop applications.
• Previous experience in shaping CI/CD workflows, release pipelines, and deployment strategies for desktop applications.
• Demonstrated ability to take ownership of feature areas or modules and drive them long-term, including maintenance, refactoring, and technical debt management.

What we offer

• A high-impact role: you will define architecture, shape the future of our Windows product, and directly influence what millions of users see and experience.
• A collaborative, flat-structure engineering culture — you are not just a coder, but a builder and a decision-maker.
• Opportunities to lead — mentor others, steer technical direction, and grow into broader technical leadership (e.g. Tech Lead, Architect).
• Flexibility, autonomy, and responsibility: you define how to solve problems, own features end-to-end, and contribute to long-term product vision.
• A purpose-driven mission: building software that’s reliable, accessible, and user-centered — making a real difference for people.                  

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RightShip is seeking an exceptional Software Architect to join our team. This role will help us continue building world-class, data-driven products to solve some of the most challenging problems in the maritime industry by maintaining and improving quality across critical data sets.

This role requires an individual who is responsible for designing, developing, and overseeing high-level software architecture decisions to ensure scalability, performance, security, and maintainability of systems. They serve as a bridge between business requirements and technical implementation, guiding teams through design and development best practices.

Major Responsibilities 

• Architectural Design: Define and document software architecture aligned with business goals, scalability needs, and technical standards.
• Technology Strategy: Evaluate and recommend appropriate technologies, frameworks, and tools for long-term system success.
• Collaboration: Work closely with stakeholders, product managers, and engineering teams to translate business needs into robust technical solutions.
• Code and System Reviews: Oversee code quality and architecture compliance through peer reviews, technical audits, and mentoring.
• Performance Optimization: Identify bottlenecks, troubleshoot technical issues, and optimize system performance.
• Security & Compliance: Integrate security standards and ensure compliance with relevant regulations and best practices.
• Documentation: Maintain detailed architecture documentation, design patterns, and guidelines.
• Mentorship: Support and mentor software engineers, fostering technical growth and knowledge sharing within teams.

Qualifications, Skills & Experience 

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience: 8+ years of software development experience, with at least 5 years in an architectural or senior technical leadership role.
• Technical Expertise:
  • Proficiency in multiple programming languages (e.g., .NET, Python, TypeScript).
  • Experience with frameworks such as Angular / Aurelia / React
  • Experience using AI-assisted coding tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot) beyond basic code completion
  • Understanding of prompt engineering, fine-tuning, and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pipelines
  • Experience working with AI models and frameworks such as OpenAI GPT, Anthropic Claude, Meta Llama, Mistral, or Gemini.
  • Deep understanding of software design patterns
  • Familiarity with Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and Clean Architecture principles
  • Proficiency in event sourcing and CQRS for scalable, decoupled systems
  • Hands-on experience with event-based architectures and messaging platforms such as:
    • Azure Service Bus, Event Hub, Event Grid
    • Kafka, RabbitMQ, or AWS SNS/SQS
  • Understanding of event choreography vs orchestration patterns
  • Strong experience in Azure cloud architecture - especially AKS, Functions, App Services, Storage, and Application Insights
  • Knowledge of OAuth2, OpenID Connect, JWT, and Azure AD B2C
  • Understanding of data privacy and secure coding standards (ex. OWASP Top 10)
  • Experience with threat modelling and zero-trust architecture principles
  • Exposure to container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Familiarity with serverless and microservices patterns
  • Knowledge of Version Control such as GitHub / Bitbucket
  • Deep understanding of system design principles, APIs, cloud architecture (preferably Azure), and microservices (containerization experience is a plus).
  • Knowledge of database design (SQL and NoSQL), message queues, and distributed systems.
• Soft Skills:
  • Excellent communications and written skills in English,
  • Outstanding analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
  • Leadership abilities
  • High attention to detail
  • Adept at working with cross-functional groups across multiple geographies
  • Able to deliver high-quality results with minimal supervision