Symmetry Investments | Senior Software Engineers and DevOps | REMOTE or VISA (London, Hong Kong, Singapore) | D, Julia, other functional and systems languages | Full-Time, Fixed Term, Flexible
Symmetry Investments is a post startup c. 5bn alternative asset management company with around 175 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 three years into a period of transformation from initially a fairly standard enterprise finance approach to technology 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.
It's not easy to integrate practitioners who may spend most of their day programming but are oriented towards solving their 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. 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, we hosted dconf last year and will do so again this year. 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, Julia and Perl backgrounds, and are happy to bring them up to speed with our stack.
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.
Some Symmetry people: 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)
Please see our GitHub (https://github.com/symmetryinvestments), blog.dlang.org and Symmetry Autumn of Code (https://dlang.org/blog/2019/08/25/saoc-2019-projects-and-par...)
Email laeeth at kaleidic.io and cc jthompson at symmetryinvestments dot com.
Deriv.com | Onsite (Malaysia) or Remote | Technical Writer | https://deriv.com/careers/
Description: You will combine your excellent command of English and your strong understanding of the technology we use to produce well-structured, concise, and easy-to-understand technical documentation as well as project and architectural plans.
Responsibilities: Develop an in-depth understanding of our products and services to condense information into simple, accurate, and polished documents tailored to their target audience. Document our current and intended future systems and software architecture. Produce coding standards, training manuals, and other technical documents for our Back-end, Front-end, Quants, Business Intelligence, and Quality Assurance teams as well as for the third-party developers who use our API. Refine and polish engineer-generated documents and open source projects to imbue them with clarity and consistency. Work with project managers to create detailed technical guidelines for achieving our short-term and long-term goals. Generate documentation for our internal and public-facing APIs. Identify and remedy content gaps and requirements to insert visual aids such as diagrams or videos to assist comprehension. Set the standard for our technical documentation by creating a technical style guide that can be followed across the company. Make sure that production and publication of content are technically accurate, well-written, and easily understandable.
Minimum qualifications: Good fundamental knowledge of software development, preferably with the programming languages, platforms, and systems that we use, such as Perl, Python, PHP, C/C++, Go, Ruby, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS Familiarity with relational database design and/or open-source RDBMS systems such as MySQL and PostgreSQL Good knowledge of Linux and other open-source platforms Outstanding written and verbal communication skills and excellent command of English More than 3 years of experience in technical content creation
Deriv.com | Onsite (Malaysia) or Remote | Technical Writer | Full-time | https://deriv.com
Description You will combine your excellent command of English and your strong understanding of the technology we use to produce well-structured, concise, and easy-to-understand technical documentation as well as project and architectural plans.
Responsibilities Develop an in-depth understanding of our products and services to condense information into simple, accurate, and polished documents tailored to their target audience. Document our current and intended future systems and software architecture. Produce coding standards, training manuals, and other technical documents for our Back-end, Front-end, Quants, Business Intelligence, and Quality Assurance teams as well as for the third-party developers who use our API. Refine and polish engineer-generated documents and open source projects to imbue them with clarity and consistency. Work with project managers to create detailed technical guidelines for achieving our short-term and long-term goals. Generate documentation for our internal and public-facing APIs. Identify and remedy content gaps and requirements to insert visual aids such as diagrams or videos to assist comprehension. Set the standard for our technical documentation by creating a technical style guide that can be followed across the company. Make sure that production and publication of content are technically accurate, well-written, and easily understandable.
Minimum qualifications Good fundamental knowledge of software development, preferably with the programming languages, platforms, and systems that we use, such as Perl, Python, PHP, C/C++, Go, Ruby, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS Familiarity with relational database design and/or open-source RDBMS systems such as MySQL and PostgreSQL Good knowledge of Linux and other open-source platforms Outstanding written and verbal communication skills and excellent command of English More than 3 years of experience in technical content creation