Quantitative Developer
Valkyrie TradingChicago, IL
$155,000 - $190,000 / year
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Job Description
What You’ll Do:
At Valkyrie, Quantitative Developers are expected to apply their deep software engineering expertise to build, scale, and maintain the firm's core research infrastructure and codebase. In this critical multi-disciplinary role, you will work side-by-side with Quantitative Researchers and software engineers in a highly collaborative environment to transform complex quantitative prototypes into robust, production-ready applications. Specific responsibilities can range from optimizing large-scale data pipelines for speed and efficiency, to hardening core simulation and backtesting frameworks, to designing and implementing new libraries that enable researchers to rapidly test models, to driving the adoption of modern infrastructure practices including CI/CD and containerization. You will also inform researchers and trading teams about the technical trade-offs, performance metrics, and system designs that ensure Valkyrie's quantitative edge.
This role is for experienced applicants and those with 3+ years of relevant experience will be considered for a Senior-level role.
What You’ll Need:
- 2+ years of full-time, professional experience in quantitative research, software engineering, or technology role—ideally in an algorithmic trading firm or a similar high-performance environment.
- Proficient command of software design principles, testing best practices, and robust system architecture.
- Deep and practical expertise in Python and experience with data science packages (e.g., pandas, numpy).
- For non-trading industry experience, we will consider proficiency in programming language including, but not limited to C, C++, Rust, C#, Java, R, and Julia.
- Comfortable with probability, statistical analysis, optimization, numerical methods, and mathematical abstraction.
- Expertise working with both relational databases and NoSQL databases in conducting historical research and backtesting.
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to explain complex and technical ideas clearly.
- Collaborative attitude with a competitive drive and comfort with metrics-based performance evaluation.
- Practical mindset with a focus on delivering impactful, production-grade solutions.
What You’ll Get:
- Competitive salaries and performance bonuses
- Top-tier medical and dental coverage
- Relocation assistance packages
- Generous vacation policy
- Training opportunities and continuing education
- Catered lunch, snacks, and beverages
- Group outings and company parties
- Casual dress environment
Salary range
- $155,000 - $190,000 a year
- This position is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus.
Our Vision
- Valkyrie’s vision is to be an organization where curious, driven, and innovative people are able to compete and win in the world’s most competitive landscape – the financial markets. Daily competition in the financial markets provides the ideal arena to push ourselves further as we are ever striving to grow, improve, and win. We recognize that there are extraordinary opportunities to be had every day, and by exploring, collaborating, and building, we can accomplish remarkable results together.
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