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Software Developer: Financial Applications

The financial applications Software Developer at Enthought, Inc. participates in the development of quantitative and technical applications involving GUIs, 2D and 3D graphics, workflow and pipeline architecture, and numerical algorithms for our customers who are leaders in the financial services industry, including major money center banks and hedge funds. We currently have openings in Austin (USA), New York (USA), and London (UK). Some travel may be required.

We are interested both in experienced applicants as well as in recent graduates. Applicants should have a BS, MS, or PhD degree with a strong background in science, mathematics, or financial services as well as real experience developing quality software, either commercial or open source. More experienced applicants should also have demonstrated project management skills and the ability to lead a team of strong developers with highly technical backgrounds.

Desired Skills and Capabilities

  • (Required) Bachelor's Degree in mathematics, science, computer science, engineering or other quantitative or technical field. Master or Ph.D. degree preferred.
  • (Required) Minimum 2 years of technical lead or development experience with 4 or more years preferred. Financial services experience preferred.
  • Ability to understand a problem domain and then conceive of and implement an intuitive user interface geared toward the analyst user.
  • Discipline, pride, and professionalism to write readable, documented, and unit-tested code that serves as an example to others who later study your work.
  • Strong work ethic and commitment to satisfying the customer.
  • Experience with Python, and a strong understanding of how to apply its capabilities to develop GUIs, work flow frameworks, and elegant analytic applications.
  • Strong understanding of statistics, optimization, image processing, signal processing, or other similar area.
  • Experience with the following:
    • - GUI frameworks such as wxPython, Qt, or the Eclipse Rich Client Platform
    • - Developing or working with plotting APIs
    • - Experience using SciPy or another technical library.
    • - Numeric algorithms

Enthought offers competitive salaries and the opportunity to work on varied and interesting technical projects. We are headquartered in Austin, TX, consistently rated one of the best places to live in the U.S., and have offices in New York, Belgium, London and Cambridge. We offer competitive benefits in all our locations.

If you are interested in applying, submit a resume to jobs@enthought.com. Code samples and links to previous work are encouraged but not required.