Selby Jennings is partnered with a renowned proprietary trading firm on a business-critical search for a Senior Software Engineer to join their Commodity Trading team in Austin, TX (or Houston, TX). Expertise in professional python coding and data analytic and/or ML tools is required, and a background in trading is preferred, however, the team is open to software engineers with impressive/notable backgrounds (such as in Big Tech and/or start ups).

Responsibilities:

• Develop tools and workflows to facilitate exploratory research.
• Design Python APIs to boost research productivity.
• Maintain and define Python research environment, optimized for data-intensive tasks.
• Create web user interfaces for data exploration and presenting research findings.
• Collaborate with researchers to implement studies, analytics, and production models for commodities trading.
• Utilize the firm's Linux computer cluster in collaboration with the research infrastructure team.
• Enhance processes for data acquisition, storage, and accessibility in collaboration with data management teams.
• Construct data and ML infrastructure to make trading data sets accessible and beneficial for researchers.
• Oversee production workflows for real-time forecasting, modeling, and analytics within the Linux compute environment.
• Develop systems for back testing and creating systematic trading strategies, and deploy them into the production trading environment.

Qualifications:

• Expert in python coding
• Experience in API design/usability
• Modern data technology exposure (ex: Airflow, Snowflake, Postgres, etc.)
• ML tools and/or scalability of analysis
• Data visualization exposure (Dash, Plotly, etc.)
• Comfortability in secondary coding language (C++, Rust, etc.)
• Computer Science (or similar, like mathematics)