Quantitative Software Engineer

Company : Diverse Lynx

Location : Chicago, IL, 60602

Posted Date : 15 October 2025

Job Type : Other

Category : Software Development

Occupation : Software Engineer

Job Details

Job Position: Quantitative Software Engineer
Job Location: Chicago, IL (Onsite)
Job Duration: Long Term Contract
Job Description:

Min. 10 year experience.
Collaborate with business product owners and quantitative teams to understand help drive technology platform and solutions to meet quantitative and analytics needs for Quant Research business
Work on the development of code libraries and solutions that leverage and appropriately augment existing structures to meet the needs of the research-driven investment and analysis processes, often in the absence of clearly documented specifications
Lead and work with developers to identify which interim solutions (e.g., tools, applications, reports, data structures, etc.) have matured sufficiently to transition to a production environment, and produce specifications for such solutions, enabling IT to elevate strategically targeted prototypes to production
Identify and evaluate the most appropriate methods, tools, datasets and technology solutions to address requirements
Partnering with Product owners and Quants to help implement models to inform the investment decision making process
Building large scale distributed computing programs to generate insightful analytics and present results in user-friendly visualization
Implement standards, processes, and tools for numerical library testing and code quality controls
Review implementation of complex models and algorithms focusing on requirement verification and code quality
Conduct code review with peers and model developers and obtain their feedback
Innovate and improve proprietary models and algorithms; design and deliver in terms of high reliability, resiliency and scalability
Experience working with and analyzing large data sets, and using necessary libraries like PySpark, Pandas, Polars, Cuml, etc
Proficiency in coding, demonstrated interest in translating algorithms and models into production quality code
Expert knowledge in multiple programming language(s) - Python, PySpark, R, Java etc
Python / PySpark is must have expertise
Working knowledge of one or more relevant big data cloud computation platform like Databricks
Experience building containerized applications and deploying to public or private clouds, such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) or similar providers
Experience of web based development and visualization technology for portraying large and complex data sets and relationships

Diverse Lynx LLC is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive due consideration for employment without any discrimination. All applicants will be evaluated solely on the basis of their ability, competence and their proven capability to perform the functions outlined in the corresponding role. We promote and support a diverse workforce across all levels in the company.