Principle Python Developer

About the position

Our high yield team manages over $100B of client assets and invests in US high yield debt, emerging market debt and a growing list of high yield alternative credit products. As a member of our Labs team, you will collaborate with our high yield team in Boston interacting directly with traders, portfolio managers, research analysts and investment services team to create new and innovative tools. We are looking for a quantitative software engineer with investment domain knowledge to join our AlphaBet Labs Team supporting our High Yield and Credit Alternatives business.

Responsibilities

• Supporting our investment professionals in maximizing their effectiveness as they research markets, make investment decisions and trade.
• Automating manual processes to save investment professionals time.
• Supporting new product development with rapid turnaround technical solutions and data analysis to support their rollout.
• Analyzing our investment and operational data and producing oversight reporting for our divisional leadership.

Requirements

• Creative problem solver with experience in both financial services and software development in Python.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Finance or equivalent work experience.
• CFA or commitment to work towards completing the CFA designation.
• Experience with Private Credit, CLOs, High Yield Loans, Bonds and Real Estate a plus.

Nice-to-haves

• Extremely versatile, comfortable working alongside and communicating with investment professionals.
• Robust data analyst comfortable with large datasets, writing queries in SQL and working with investment analytics and statistics.
• Ability to process, manipulate and analyze data using Python, JavaScript and Excel VBA.
• Interest in the development process as well as the outcome to help improve development and testing approach and deployment infrastructure.
• Collaborative and team minded with the ability to mentor and develop younger members of the team.