Your Responsibility

📍We are seeking an already experienced head for our new real-time information flows team. You will build the technical team and direct the architecture from the ground up. 📍We think the future system will have 3 major components / sub-teams: 📍Frontend/UX Sub-Team: Create an excellent user interface for traders and researchers with robust ‘Alert and Warning’ pop-up capabilities. This is a challenging UX problem as mistakes here cost millions of dollars, but attention is also expensive. 📍Data Corpus Sub-Team: Develop the tools for testing and scoring new alert ideas (optimizing precision / recall) and providing ideas for new alerts. 📍Reliability/Latency Sub-Team: Consistently reduce latency and maintain reliable scrapers and infrastructure that perform well under harsh conditions (e.g., OCR, login, site structure changes, IP bans).

Requirements

📍Our first hire is a generalist with direct experience building similar alpha-harvesting event systems in another hedge fund. You are likely "director-level." 📍You are still hands-on and build an MVP of #1-3 by yourself; While constantly hiring senior engineers to work under you and lead each module. 📍Technical Skills you should have: 📍Frontend/User Experience: Proficiency in frontend technology with a user-centric mindset. Experience in user experience research is a large plus. 📍Data Corpus: Understanding of machine learning. Able to build a tool and data corpus of previous news sources and events we can optimize precision/recall scores on. 📍Reliability/Latency: Expertise in creating reliable scraping systems and reduce latency over time.