Singapore Jobs - August 2021

Symmetry Investments | Many Varied Roles | REMOTE or VISA (London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Jersey) | D, Julia, Kotlin, other functional and systems languages | Full-Time, Fixed Term, Flexible

## Roles we are hiring for

- Business Analysts: business analysis, documentation, team and tool design

- Native Code Developers: We are looking for outstanding native code developers who would like to write D. Our experience has been that strong C and C++ developers can learn D quite quickly.

- Functional Developers to work with Practitioners using Symmetry Integration Language to deliver value to the business.

- Documentation: At Symmetry we recognise the value of writing and have for example a Pulitzer prize-winning former WSJ journalist and a maintainer of Linux Kernel Newbies documentation. We are looking for people to write technical documentation and to document data structures and processes (open to varying range of technical ability depending on the project).

- Designers for documentation. Now that non-programming internal work is moving to markdown in git, we are hiring designers to work on templates and mini-logos for documentation and other work.

- Information Security: incident response, threat intelligence, vuln management

- Platform: Platform as Code, Site Reliability Engineers, Windows desktop support; frontline server support and administration; application support

- Legal and Compliance: #lawyerswhocode or who are very comfortable working with markdown in git

- Accounting: are you the sort of person who would use #ledger-cli ? If so, we would like to hear from you.

- Business: risk, operations, administrative, organisational design and business strategy, investor relations processes

- Investment: Economics, Quant, Portfolio Research, Investment Research, Portfolio Management and Trading

- Market Data: contract administration, data cleaning, alternative data research and management

Location: Remote or sponsorship for a visa in London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Jersey

Term: full-time permanent, fixed-term contract, flexible hours.

## Languages

- Dlang (D)

- Julia

- Kotlin

- we do not use but value experience in modern C++, beautiful C, Haskell, Ocaml, Rust, Elm

## Qualities and traits we value

- Courage and daring

- Phronesis (practical wisdom), common sense and commercial orientation

- Practical people who are at the same time unreasonable when they ought to be

- Highly individual people oriented to promoting survival and flourishing of the group

- Inclination and ability to notice and understand links between seemingly-unrelated things

- Curiosity

- Extreme motivation

- Mechanical sympathy

- Extreme and unusual intellectual capabilities

- A love of tinkering

- Resourcefulness

- Good taste and love of beauty

## About Us

Symmetry Investments is a post startup USD 7+ billion alternative asset management company with around 230 people across multiple time zones and locations.

Our core technology team has been remote-first for some time, and the whole company is following suit, post-COVID.

I'm one of the three people running the firm, responsible amongst other things for technology across the firm and I’m posting this myself. That should give you an idea both about how seriously we take technology and the culture of the firm.

We are four years into a period of transformation from what was initially a fairly standard enterprise finance technology approach to something new that recognises the importance of both the humane and the technical for discretionary portfolio management and for the business of running an alternative investment manager. [Amaury Sechet](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhR4PSExnqk), [Andrei Alexandrescu](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es6U7WAlKpQ) and [Atila Neves](https://dlang.org/blog/2019/10/15/my-vision-of-ds-future/) have been working with us as long-term consultants and we have many other talented people with lower public profiles.

It's not easy to integrate practitioners who may spend most of their day programming, but are oriented towards solving business problems, with developers who are specialists in programming. To achieve this, we wrote a little functional DSL that's now in production. Type inference of returns and parameters using inequality constraints is in a feature branch and there is plenty more to do on the language itself as well as the ecosystem around it. SIL can compile and call C++ and D at runtime; Python interop is in alpha; and C# is on the way. What might be a project in itself elsewhere can be just a set of functions in Symmetry Integration Language.

The language is written in D and we have a close involvement with the D Foundation and community, hosting DConf in London. So we are looking for outstanding native code developers who would like to write D as well as people to work with practitioners writing Symmetry Integration Language. Also looking for people to write documentation and work on the build.

It's quite a creative place where we encourage a degree of courage amidst practical constraints, and we are open to doing things a different way if it's commercially sound and in the interests of our investors.

We look for virtues and capabilities over only experience and credentials although those things aren't a disadvantage. Do not let a lack of credentials or qualifications prevent you from applying. We've recently hired experts with C++, Common Lisp, D, Haxe, Haskell, Julia and Perl backgrounds, and are happy to bring them up to speed with the tools we use.

Compensation is currently not quite at Netflix standards but is generous to very generous over time by broad technology industry standards. We recognise and reward technical accomplishment and have a very flat structure - don't be surprised if our founder and CIO starts asking you questions about your work.

## Symmetry Talks

- Presenting SIL-cling to Compiler Research Group at Princeton (https://youtu.be/7teqrCNzrD8)

- Symmetry Internship Project - calling C++ from SIL (http://dconf.org/2020/online/index.html#alexandru)

- All Spreadsheets Must Die (https://youtu.be/FZi9CSB9_kk)

- Lessons from a DSL where all you have is Ranges (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtuzSlKRmzA)

- Alternative Investment Management (https://youtu.be/1rMq-4rWgis)

## Links

- Symmetry GitHub (https://github.com/symmetryinvestments)

# Contact

- Please apply using this link (https://jobs.lever.co/symmetryinvestments/c8a9b95e-bdf0-459c...).

A Better Consultancy | Software Engineer | Full Time / Part Time | Singapore (visa sponsorship not available at this time)

We are a small technology advisory and consultancy firm who are highly selective on our client projects. We work with clients who have interesting software projects - from either business perspective or tech perspective - and that try to make the world a better place.

We also have a backlog of our own projects that we're looking to bring to market to ensure that our workload is interesting, varied as well as technically and commercially exciting.

We are very open to flexible working arrangements - and are able to work with you to accommodate your own projects or hobbies - though we do need you to be based in Singapore already.

We work in small and close-knit teams of product manager, UX designer and developers. In terms of development, we use programming languages that are suitable for the project and the client's needs. As long as you can code and are willing to learn new language or technologies, you are welcome - and we enjoy a learning focused, highly positive work environment.

If you are interested, email hans[at]abetterconsultancy.co and let's have a chat.

SimplePay | Ruby on Rails Developers | UTC+0 to UTC+8 | REMOTE

SimplePay is a profitable, developer-owned online payroll software company, with solid annual growth. Our software lets 21,000 small business owners (and their accountants) run their South African, Ireland, Singapore and Hong Kong payrolls without headaches, so they can focus on the challenge of building their businesses. We're also developing new product lines.

Our development team was already mostly remote pre-pandemic. We have a very supportive culture, and are putting a lot of thought into ensuring remote work is happy work.

To find out more about us, check our developer blog (https://tech.simplepay.cloud) or about page (https://www.simplepay.co.za/about)

Do you believe SPAs are overkill for most apps, but wouldn't mind digging into Vue.js for pages that will benefit from the increased interactivity? Do you laugh when people give up the power of SQL DBs in favour of data stores that don't offer any benefits for their use case? If so, you may fit in well with our mindset.

Experience: Ruby on Rails. If you've used other web frameworks and are keen to get into Rails we'd definitely consider you! Just be sure to mention that in your application. The work is mostly on the back-end, but some front-end skills are welcome - we're doing more and more interactive things with Vue.js. Bonus points if you know a bit of Flutter, we could use some extra hands on our mobile app but can't yet justify having a second developer working on it full-time.

Location: UTC+0 to UTC+8

Please apply at https://teamsimplepay.applytojob.com/apply/k3nsnahdKv/Experi... and attach your resume / CV in PDF format. In the "Cover Letter" section of the application, please include 1) the time zone in which you reside, and 2) a link to a PR created or an issue logged for an open source project (no matter how small or long ago) as the first two lines. Also tell us why you would like to join SimplePay.

Shopify | Full-time | Remote | https://shopify.com | SRE APAC

Shopify has many critical components, and sometimes they fail. Members of our Resiliency Team are the ones ensuring we can get back to green as fast as possible when that happens. This team will be setting the foundation for building and running resilient systems at Shopify. This is a team of engineers with in-depth operational knowledge of the entire Shopify stack, who will act as first responders and leaders during an incident.

Our job is to get to a resolution as quickly as possible and guide teams to build a more resilient Shopify. We will build the tools and systems used to quickly resolve incidents, and will look to automate away the manual toil.

Commerce happens 24/7, and we need to build a team that can respond whenever necessary. We are hiring for a distributed team to provide availability in APAC (Must be located in Australia, Japan, Singapore, or India.

Contact: Joe at joe.chop@shopify.com