C#/C++ Open Source Software Engineer in QuantConnect

QuantConnect is a radically open-source, algorithmic trading technology company building infrastructure to empower engineering and financial analysts around the world, with over 60 public repositories. We serve 300,000 engineers who use our platform to write trading algorithms and have traded more than $20B/mo in volume with our open-source algorithmic trading platform.

Our radically open source project, LEAN, is in the top 0.4% of all GitHub projects with 9,500+ stars. LEAN is the state of the art, cross platform, C# kernel of QuantConnect, processing billions in trading volumes and trillions of data points per day on our cloud cluster.

• Design, implement, and maintain LEAN open source C# Brokerage modules.
• Design, implement, and maintain core C# LEAN open source project.

• Computer Science / Software Engineering degree helps but if you're a savant we don't need a degree.
• Comfort mentally loading large engineering models and understanding data flows, along with where to place the "fix".
• Comfort coding; this role is a hands-on position solving active challenges.
• Comfort with C# or C++.

• LEAN challenges require a deep understanding of computer science and algorithmic problems. Each day we push the barriers of what is technically possible to gain performance improvements and restructure massive models to improve the system design.
• Experience integrating with brokerages APIs is a plus.
• Financial and trading knowledge is not required but valued.

• A creative and challenging work environment where you're given a lot of control and discretion to execute the mission of the company. We believe in hiring a small number of brilliant people and then giving them the tools to get the job done.
• We are a radically open-source company; contributing millions of lines of code each year. We harness and contribute to a dozen repositories around the world.
• Our primary users are other brilliant quants and engineers; working with the community is a joy as you learn from the best in the world.
• 2W paid holiday each year. The basics in US healthcare, dental, life insurance.