Quantitative Trading Developer (Python)

Location: Boston, United States; hybrid work environment with remote and onsite work

Base salary: $95,500–$137,500 per year, plus eligibility for a competitive incentive bonus.

Company

hirify.global is an investment management company supporting individuals and institutions in building more secure and prosperous financial futures.

What you will do

• Partner with quantitative trading strategists to move research models and analytical prototypes into production.
• Design architecture for integrating models, datasets, and analytics into the existing trading platform.
• Build and maintain scalable data pipelines, REST APIs, and services for trading analytics and automated trading workflows.
• Improve service resilience through dependency management, fallback logic, failure handling, monitoring, and alerting.
• Develop data-quality controls, testing frameworks, and automation for research production and execution workflows.
• Contribute to code reviews, deployments, CI/CD practices, and the maintainability of the platform.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or another technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4+ years of production software development experience, preferably in a data-intensive or quantitative environment.
• Strong Python software engineering skills and experience building maintainable applications.
• Knowledge of software design, testing, packaging, version control, and CI/CD.
• Experience with REST APIs, SQL, Unix/Linux, Git, Docker, and systems handling large structured and unstructured datasets.
• Ability to work independently, identify problems, propose pragmatic solutions, and collaborate with traders, researchers, and technology partners.

Nice to have

• Experience with KDB+/q, KX Insights, or Microsoft Azure.
• Experience in financial markets, equity or fixed income trading, market structure, or transaction cost analysis.
• Willingness to travel internationally occasionally.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid remote and onsite work environment.
• Competitive incentive compensation based on individual and company performance.
• Retirement contribution equal to 15% of base salary, separate from the company-sponsored 401(k).
• Education assistance, tuition reimbursement, and access to discounted tutors and college coaches.
• Generous paid time off, fully paid maternity, parental, and caregiver leaves, and medical and dental plan options.
• Health Savings Account contributions, commuter benefits, flexible spending accounts, wellness programs, and mental health support.