Senior Quantitative Developer

Job Description:

The Role

Senior Quantitative Developer is a core software engineering role in our dynamic, fast-paced quantitative development team. You will be ‘embedded’ within the quantitative research team and you will partner with the investment teams on various projects including portfolio construction, risk management, and alpha research. You will contribute to build high quality, robust, and efficient analytical software solutions that will be used to improve investment processes. You and your team will be responsible for developing, running, supporting all kinds of Quantitative Tools in cloud environment and communicate the same with customers.

The Team

The Advance Strategies and Research (ASR) Quantitative Development team is part of Asset Management’s Quantitative Research & Investment Technology group that partners with various investment teams and projects. We build and ‘own’ high quality, robust, adaptive, resilient solutions that are essential to investment management, quantitative analysis, and new product development.

This position can be in Boston, MA or Jersey City, NJ

The Expertise You Have

• Bachelor's degree (or above) in a quantitative or computational field such as Statistics, Computer Science or Applied Mathematics
• 5 + years of experience in complex software development and working with investment professionals
• Good understanding and implementation of software excellence concepts(Reliability, Extendibility, Resiliency, Flexibility, Pluggability, Intuitive Problem Solving, Risk mitigation, Technical debt, Scope, estimation, quality, CI/CD, Unit testing, Functional testing, Load testing, Parallel Processing, Resource Synchronization, Performance, Monitoring, Alerts, Logging, Tracing, Observability, Supportability etc.)

The Skills You Bring

• Experience on Analytical/Software Engineering skills including Python, Shell Scripts, Java, SQL and Linux.
• Experience in implementation of a research project through the entire software development lifecycle applying a full-stack implementation.
• Experience with AWS cloud environment development and deployment is a plus.
• Good understanding of quantitative techniques and methods, statistics, and econometrics – including probability, linear regression, and time series data analysis
• Good experience in either equities, fixed income, or alternative asset classes
• Consistent track record in hands-on ‘development’ of complex software solutions.
• Ability to effectively connect with multiple partners, including fundamental and quantitative researchers, divisional partners.
• Thrive in working with fast paced competing requirements and effectively delivering business needs

The Value You Deliver

• Lead/Own the one or more modules of a research project through the entire software development lifecycle applying a full-stack implementation.
• Intuitively apply advanced analytics and quantitative concepts to support investment needs and develop new solutions.
• Add scale, reliability, and repeatability to research through software development standard methodologies.
• Assist Research teams in developing new models and products that will provide an advantage to the organization in the marketplace.
• Apply sophisticated analytics and quantitative concepts to support investment needs and develop new solutions.
• Adaptive and effective team player with strong collaboration

Company Overview

At Fidelity, we are passionate about making our financial expertise broadly accessible and effective in helping people live the lives they want. We are a privately held company that places a high degree of value in crafting and nurturing a work environment that attracts the best talent and reflects our commitment to our associates. We are proud of our diverse and inclusive workplace where we respect and value our associate for their outstanding perspectives and experiences. For information about working at Fidelity, visit FidelityCareers.com.

Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

The base salary range for this position is $97,000-$154,000 per year.  

Placement in the range will vary based on job responsibilities and scope, geographic location, candidate’s relevant exper