[scala] Scala job in Boston writing quantitative finance software

[Paul Chiusano]

Hi folks,

The company I work for, ClariFI (http://clarifi.com/), is looking to hire developers with a strong background in functional programming to do a mixture of Scala and Java programming. The ideal candidate would be someone who really "gets" FP and who we could turn loose designing and implementing clean, functional code in Scala. You'd also work on extending existing Scala modules and integrating the library code you write with application code written in Java. For more info, check out our official job posting: http://www.clarifi.com/About-ClariFI-Careers.php#SoftwareEngineer

Some background on us: ClariFI is a small company (about 15 developers) that specializes in software for quantitative investment management. Our chief product, ModelStation, is used by portfolio managers for handling all stages of the quant process: building and backtesting of factors, portfolio optimization, simulation of trading strategies, performance and risk attribution, overall data management (including organizing huge amounts of time series data pulled from a diverse set of raw sources), and lots more. We don't expect you to have a background in finance but you should be willing and able to learn a lot once you start. 

This position is in our Boston office, so you must live or be willing to relocate here in order to be considered. If you're interested, send an email to myself or my boss, Scott McFarland (smcfarland@...), along with your resume. Also, feel free to contact either of us if you just have questions about the position.

Cheers,
Paul

[thebugslayer]

It's so sweet to see companies are starting to hire Scala developers!

@Paul, I didn't see Scala been mentioned on your job description though. It would be nicer to see that there. :)

Best regards,
-Z

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Paul Chiusano <paul.chiusano@...> wrote:

Hi folks,

The company I work for, ClariFI (http://clarifi.com/), is looking to hire developers with a strong background in functional programming to do a mixture of Scala and Java programming. The ideal candidate would be someone who really "gets" FP and who we could turn loose designing and implementing clean, functional code in Scala. You'd also work on extending existing Scala modules and integrating the library code you write with application code written in Java. For more info, check out our official job posting: http://www.clarifi.com/About-ClariFI-Careers.php#SoftwareEngineer

Some background on us: ClariFI is a small company (about 15 developers) that specializes in software for quantitative investment management. Our chief product, ModelStation, is used by portfolio managers for handling all stages of the quant process: building and backtesting of factors, portfolio optimization, simulation of trading strategies, performance and risk attribution, overall data management (including organizing huge amounts of time series data pulled from a diverse set of raw sources), and lots more. We don't expect you to have a background in finance but you should be willing and able to learn a lot once you start. 

This position is in our Boston office, so you must live or be willing to relocate here in order to be considered. If you're interested, send an email to myself or my boss, Scott McFarland (smcfarland@...), along with your resume. Also, feel free to contact either of us if you just have questions about the position.

Cheers,
Paul

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[Paul Chiusano]

Hi, just to clarify a bit about the job description.

The "official" job description doesn't specifically mention Scala as we are primarily a Java shop and we haven't (up until recently) been looking to hire Scala programmers. Over the past year we've started rolling out significant parts of our code in Scala and we're now looking to improve our collective Scala knowledge as we expand our Scala usage. To give you an idea of the Scala/Java balance, I personally write maybe 80% of my code in Scala. Unfortunately, I'm the main Scala / FP developer here and I'm fast becoming a bottleneck. I've been teaching a few other developers Scala, but folks are busy with other responsibilities and aren't getting up to speed as fast as we need. Hence, we're trying to hire more Scala people.

Best,

Paul

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Zemian Deng <thebugslayer@...> wrote:

It's so sweet to see companies are starting to hire Scala developers!

@Paul, I didn't see Scala been mentioned on your job description though. It would be nicer to see that there. :)

Best regards,
-Z

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Paul Chiusano <paul.chiusano@...> wrote:

Hi folks,

The company I work for, ClariFI (http://clarifi.com/), is looking to hire developers with a strong background in functional programming to do a mixture of Scala and Java programming. The ideal candidate would be someone who really "gets" FP and who we could turn loose designing and implementing clean, functional code in Scala. You'd also work on extending existing Scala modules and integrating the library code you write with application code written in Java. For more info, check out our official job posting: http://www.clarifi.com/About-ClariFI-Careers.php#SoftwareEngineer

Some background on us: ClariFI is a small company (about 15 developers) that specializes in software for quantitative investment management. Our chief product, ModelStation, is used by portfolio managers for handling all stages of the quant process: building and backtesting of factors, portfolio optimization, simulation of trading strategies, performance and risk attribution, overall data management (including organizing huge amounts of time series data pulled from a diverse set of raw sources), and lots more. We don't expect you to have a background in finance but you should be willing and able to learn a lot once you start. 

This position is in our Boston office, so you must live or be willing to relocate here in order to be considered. If you're interested, send an email to myself or my boss, Scott McFarland (smcfarland@...), along with your resume. Also, feel free to contact either of us if you just have questions about the position.

Cheers,
Paul

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