Software Engineering Lead / Manager - Real-Time Information Flows, Hedge Fund | London, UK | Remote

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

Hermeneutic Investments, London, United Kingdom

About Us / Why Join?

We are a rapidly growing crypto hedge fund, 2 years old, managing a 9-figure AUM, generating 200%+ annualized returns with a 4 Sharpe.

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.

Interview Process

• 1st round: Technical and architectural by Chief of Staff.
• 2nd round: Technical by Infrastructure Lead.
• 3rd round: (Optional) We may ask you to do an assessment / assignment.
• 4th round: Cultural and fit by our CIO.

Throughout the process, you'll be assessed for cultural fit through our company values:

• Drive - We believe the best team members are passionate about what they do, and that propels them to greater heights in their career.
• Ownership - We aim to give ownership interest to as many people in the firm as possible, but in return, we expect everyone to act like owners.
• Judgement - We look for team members who consistently look at the big picture and spend their time on the activities that most drive PnL.
• Openness - We want a culture where we proactively share information with one another and challenge each other with constructive debate to reach the truth.
• Competence - We value people with high intellectual horsepower.

FAQ

Is previous crypto experience necessary?

No, we prefer candidates who are coming from premier TradFi buy-side hedge funds. However, we expect all candidates to have a strong interest in digital assets and ideally trade or invest in their personal account.