Senior Software Engineer at Alphataraxia

Company

Alphataraxia Management (ATX) is a fast-growing quantitative investment management group with offices in both Washington, DC and Los Angeles, CA. We specialize in wholesale electricity markets, where extreme volatility is the norm and the marketplace is constantly evolving, presenting new opportunities for growth and insight. We are currently one of the top participants in the power markets and are looking for hard-working candidates with genuine enthusiasm for solving complex problems to join our collaborative and high-caliber team.

Job Description

Join our team at Alphataraxia as a Senior Software Engineer and play a pivotal role in evolving our software engineering capabilities. Your mission will be to build and refine our investment platform and tools to meet the growing needs of our business. Our firm leverages data-powered proprietary systems that are crucial for trading speculative wholesale power contracts and hedging risk in our portfolios. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be instrumental in building and enhancing these systems and tools, ensuring a seamless experience for our investment teams to support informed decision-making and transactions.

Responsibilities

• Building out proprietary systems and tools that are the backbone of our business in trading speculative wholesale power contracts and hedging out risk in our existing portfolios
• Interfacing directly with Investment Analysts, Investment Engineers, Data Engineers, and DevOps Engineers to deliver needed tools and improve the existing platform
• Designing, building, and maintaining critical tools and processes used to transact in energy markets
• Ensuring excellence in code quality and architecture
• Proposing architectural improvements and changes to ATX’s platform and tools to up our game
• Mentoring early career engineers in software development best practices in order to foster an environment of excellence and growth

Note: if you are incredibly interested in the financial transactions side of our business, see our Investment Analyst position.

Applicant Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in a Software Engineering or similar role
• Strong coding skills in Python, FastAPI preferred
• Full stack coding experience, with a passion for backend architecture and a comfort with working on the frontend (React)
• Strong testing mentality
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• An ability to grapple with quantitative concepts and systems, as this role interfaces with largely technical and quantitative peers
• Comfort working both individually as well as collaboratively, at times in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Strong ownership of work to proactively lead improvements for the Investment Engineering team
• A love of learning new technologies and a desire to experiment with new tools and systems

A Little More About Us

• We play with vast amounts of data and turn our findings into actionable trading decisions
• We try to explain how things work both fundamentally and quantitatively
• We build all our own proprietary tools, enabling us to prototype, iterate quickly, and pivot when necessary
• We automate as many redundant processes as possible to maximize time spent on analysis
• We move quickly with minimal bureaucracy and a high level of ownership
• We have a team-first mindset, and focus on developing our team members
• We believe strongly in the value of maintaining a variety of perspectives and experiences within our team
• We work in a collaborative, casual environment, yet also expect high throughput from each member of our team
• We pride ourselves on our openness, transparency, and horizontal structure. Across the firm, we all work closely together to tackle difficult problems

Benefits

We strive to offer best-in-class compensation and benefits alongside an unrivaled work-life balance.

• Base salary range is $170,000-$200,000 
• Annual discretionary bonus based on performance
• 20 paid vacation days + 7 paid federal holidays + 5 floating holidays
• Excellent health, dental, and vision insurance (including HSA option) with no monthly premiums for best-in-class platinum individual plan
• 401k match—100% company matching on the first 4% of deferrals with immediate vesting
• Annual firmwide weeklong summit
• Hybrid remote work environment—most of the year we are in the office Tuesday to Thursday with remote flexibility Monday and Friday
• Flexible remote work months—fully remote option for the month of July and between Thanksgiving and New Years
• Casual environment (informal attire)
• Snacks and unlimited coffee in the office
• Firm sponsored social events including happy hours, lunches, book club, and more!

Application

Please note that we can only extend offers to individuals that are authorized to work in the US; we are unable to sponsor visa applications at this time.

The base salary for this role is $170,000.00–$200,000.00.

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