Risk Developer Consultant

About the role

About the Role:  Build analytical tools to facilitate rapid, ad-hoc understanding of performance and risk by portfolio managers, senior management, risk managers and analysts.  Develop quantitative analysis of risk to deliver game changing solutions.  Build and support risk operational infrastructure to maintain and continually exceed high standard of excellence. To succeed as a Risk Developer at Point72, you must embody the following values:  Innovation & Excellence: A successful team member has excellent broad technical and problem solving skills including the ability to innovate, drive change, and can quickly adapt to changing processes, priorities, languages, and ideas.  Communication: We interact directly with risk managers, senior management, and portfolio managers, in addition to our colleagues in the technology department. The listing location is Stamford, us.

Key facts

What you'll do

• About the Role:  Build analytical tools to facilitate rapid, ad-hoc understanding of performance and risk by portfolio managers, senior management, risk managers and analysts.
•  Develop quantitative analysis of risk to deliver game changing solutions.
•  Build and support risk operational infrastructure to maintain and continually exceed high standard of excellence.
• To succeed as a Risk Developer at Point72, you must embody the following values:  Innovation & Excellence: A successful team member has excellent broad technical and problem solving skills including the ability to innovate, drive change, and can quickly adapt to changing processes, priorities, languages, and ideas.
•  Communication: We interact directly with risk managers, senior management, and portfolio managers, in addition to our colleagues in the technology department.
• The ability to communicate with technical peers and our business users in terms that both groups can understand is crucial to our success.
•  Integrity: we uphold the highest standards of ethics and integrity.
• Our work is truthful, direct and unbiased.
• We protect sensitive and confidential information and exercise discretion in all aspects of our work.
• Point72 is committed to the principles of equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants for employment.

Requirements

• To succeed as a Risk Developer at Point72, you must embody the following values:  Innovation & Excellence: A successful team member has excellent broad technical and problem solving skills including the ability to innovate, drive change, and can quickly adapt to changing processes, priorities, languages, and ideas.
• We accomplish difficult and high-stakes tasks in an environment with a high degree of uncertainty.
• Additional Requirements:  An interest and passion in the understanding of financial markets and instruments.
•  Ability to translate business requirements into technical specification.
•  5+ years programming experience, with 2+ years dedicated to C#.
• Experiences Preferred:  Development of risk management systems or valuation engines.
•  Experience using Scala  Experience using, designing, or developing with NoSQL technologies  The candidates will be tested on his/her knowledge of financial markets, and his/her ability to code in C# and SQL.
•  2+ year experience in hedge fund/investment bank Interested candidates please contact Abhishek Agarwal aagarwal(at)optionsgroup.com

About Options Group

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Building software is iterative: ship a slice, measure it, correct course. Code review and written design notes keep quality from depending on one person. What you will do is limited to this posting. These paragraphs describe the craft, not extra assignments.

Software engineering work usually means turning product intent into systems that run in production. Engineers write and review code, break large changes into reviewable pieces, and watch how those changes behave after they ship. Most teams share on-call or incident habits so outages get a clear owner. Collaboration with product and design is part of the job. The duties above are only those this listing actually states.