Software Engineering Lead / Manager - Real-Time Information Flows, Hedge Fund

at  Hermeneutic Investments

ABOUT US / WHY JOIN?

We are a rapidly growing crypto hedge fund, 2 years old, managing a 9-figure AUM, with a 12x+ return and a ~3.5 Sharpe ratio. Join a bright, small, profitable, and high-caliber team making a large impact.

We are building a new team and system to help our trading & research team detect and react to market-moving events. This is an opportunity to:

• Bring your TradFi experience to a new nascent asset class where there is plenty of alpha to be harvested.
• Work with some of the best crypto researchers and traders, proven with track record.
• Be compensated very well, as our profitability per staff member is very high. Think: retirement money after 5 years.

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.
  Note: You should be at an intermediate level at all 3 of these areas (enough to direct the architecture) and a world-class expert in at least 1.

Please refer the Job description for details