Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2024)

Vividly | Fully Remote | Full Time | Full-Stack & DevOps Engineers We’re a Series A start up looking to transform the efficiencies of CPG finance and sales teams by getting them out of excel and into the Vividly platform. We’re looking to hire 4-5 full-stack engineers to work on our projects in the product roadmap. In the upcoming year, our team will be focused on adding new features to the analytics portion of our product, and includes lots of exciting work around generative AI and pricing optimization.

Our tech interviews are conducted in React, Python and or Rust/Node to ensure candidates are comfortable in both the frontend and backend. Our careers page is here: https://www.govividly.com/careers

1. Full Stack Engineer - https://www.govividly.com/jobpost?gh_jid=4099665004 2. DevOps Engineer - https://www.govividly.com/jobpost?gh_jid=4576568004

Bank of America | London, UK | Full-time | ONSITE |

We are seeking a highly skilled and innovative strategist / technologist to join our dynamic cross asset strategy team. As a key member of the team you will be responsible for developing and implementing advanced trading strategies and responding to end-user requests. Our team writes programs in Python that run on the Bank’s strategic platform, Quartz, to answer questions that relate to the entire global markets trading business. We work outside of the traditional IT organisation, based on the trading floor in London.

You will be assisting the Cross Assets Strats team as part of the Strategic Risk and PnL project to re-factor and redesign our market model code. This project seeks to explain the risk and PnL of the Global Markets business in a strategic fashion.

Working as part of a team of 7 people, you will be writing and debugging code in Python, running within Quartz, the in-house bank platform. On-going learning about and debugging existing market model code used for calculating risk and PnL, simplify and optimize to perform more efficiently. Programming ability is most highly prized. Financial knowledge is desirable but not strictly necessary, provided there is a willingness to learn. Please get in touch if:

If you are passionate about programming and are comfortable with a variety of programming languages and paradigms

* You have previously written scripting language, or at least know how you might go about it

* You appreciate functional programming concepts and writing algorithms in a functional style

* You have good mathematical abilities and want to learn more about using mathematical techniques to analyse data

* You have financial and quantitative knowledge, and would like to learn more

Key Requirements

* UK resident - Unfortunately, for this role, we are not able to consider applications from candidates who are not already resident in the UK.

* Bachelors or master’s degree in computer science, Mathematics, Finance or related field

* Experience within quantitative trading, algo trading or related role

* Proficient in Python, C++, C#, Java or Lisp (etc.!)

* Excellent analytical skills

* Good communication skills

Please email paul.hollingsworth@bofa.com if you are interested in applying.

https://careers.bankofamerica.com/en-us/job-detail/24010736/...

FYI, the "Job openings" box in the careers page is blank: https://friendlycaptcha.com/company/jobs/. It would be friendlier to say there's none available :)

Edit: also, when applying, the resume file picker is not quite right on the phone. It did let me select a file, but I was also given the option to take a photo or record audio. Other forms I've seen directly asked for a file.

Any chance you can remove that European salary ceiling? You are missing on a lot of great talent, including Europeans, who work remotely for US shops.

Man Group Tech | Quant Python Engineer | London, UK | Onsite | Full Time As a Quant Developer here at Man Group you will be working hand-in-hand with our Quant Researchers. Your challenges will be varied, and will involve implementing new trading strategies, building new research frameworks and quant libraries, prototyping new data feeds, development of new portfolio construction techniques or building risk analysis tools. Our systems are almost all running on Linux and most of our code is in Python, with the full scientific stack: numpy, scipy, pandas, scikit-learn to name a few of the libraries we use extensively. We implement the systems that require the highest data throughput in Java. For storage, we rely heavily on MongoDB and Oracle.

We use Airflow for workflow management, Kafka for data pipelines, Bitbucket for source control, Jenkins for continuous integration, Grafana + Prometheus for metrics collection, ELK for log shipping and monitoring, Docker + Kubernetes for containerisation, OpenStack for our private cloud, Ansible for architecture automation, and Slack for internal communication. But our technology list is never static: we constantly evaluate new tools and libraries.

Man Tech has a small company, no-attitude feel. It is flat structured, open, transparent and collaborative, and you will have plenty of opportunity to grow and have enormous impact on what we do. We are actively engaged with the broader technology community.

o We host and sponsor London’s PyData and Machine Learning Meetups o We open-source some of our technology. See https://github.com/man-group o We regularly talk at leading industry conferences, and tweet about relevant technology and how we’re using it. See @manquanttech Essential Skills o Exceptional technology skills; recognised by your peers as an expert in your domain o A proponent of strong collaborative software engineering techniques and methods: agile development, continuous integration, code review, unit testing, refactoring and related approaches o Expert knowledge in one or more programming languages, preferably Python, Java and/or C/C++ o Proficient on Linux platforms with knowledge of various scripting languages o Strong knowledge of one or more relevant database technologies e.g. Oracle, MongoDB o Proficient with a range of open source frameworks and development tools e.g. NumPy/SciPy/Pandas, Pyramid, AngularJS, React o Familiarity with a variety of programming styles (e.g. OO, functional) and in-depth knowledge of design patterns.

If you're interested, please get in touch with Milly Parrott milly.parrott@man.com