Quantopian (<a href="https://www.quantopian.com/about" >), Boston, MA
Quantopian is hiring software and operations engineers to help us disrupt the world of finance. We've built the world's first web-based algorithmic trading platform, and we're growing our team to support our rapidly expanding user base and to build everything on our ambitious product roadmap.
We're well-financed by some of the savviest investors in the business (Spark Capital, Khosla Ventures, GETCO, and various individuals).
We work on interesting problems, such as:
* Running arbitrary user code on our own servers, with all the associated security implications
* Designing and building intuitive and powerful research and development tools and APIs for our users
Designing data stores to model real-world financial data and optimizing them for high throughput when running trading simulations
* Communicating with broker APIs to trade real money on our users' behalf
* Metering and autoscaling our cloud infrastructure to respond to varying load
* Designing and building an amazing user experience, both on desktop and mobile
So far, we've built Quantopian with Python and Ruby on Rails (and a little Node.js) on AWS and Heroku. We depend heavily on Redis, and our Docker usage is rapidly growing. However, we are very pragmatic and our highest priority is shipping user-delighting features built with the most sensible technologies.  Be sure to check out Zipline (<a href="https://github.com/quantopian/zipline" >), our open-source backtester.  We have several other projects that we plan on open-sourcing as well.
We've assembled a top-notch product and engineering team here in Boston, and we're growing fast. We're open to all levels of experience, from still-in-college to seasoned veteran. A financial background is not necessary at all (but is always nice to have).
We're still small enough that you will have a material impact on our company's trajectory.  Our small size and ambitious goals dictate our approach to talent acquisition and retention: we believe in hiring the best engineers and giving them hard problems to solve and the autonomy to solve them.
Ideally, you:
* have a solid background in computer science fundamentals
* have good communication skills
* thrive on designing, building, and shipping mind-blowing features that delight our users
We provide:
* All the standard stuff (fully paid health and dental for you and your family, 5% 401(k) matching, gym and phone reimbursement, pretax transit, weekly catered lunch).
* Your choice of computer equipment
* A beautiful new office (in October) in downtown Boston
* Fun and intellectually stimulating work environment.  We ship early and often. We have lives outside of work. We like each other.