Squarepoint

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Squarepoint is a global investment management firm specializing in quantitative strategies and automated trading systems to deliver superior returns for clients across financial markets.

New York, NY

Financial Services

1,001–5,000 people

About

Squarepoint is a leading global investment management firm that develops quantitative investment strategies to achieve high quality returns for our clients. We are a data and technology driven firm who specialize in developing automated trading systems that execute across global financial markets.

Open positions

Software Developer - Data Pipelines (Python)

On-site · Montréal

Position Overview: We are seeking an experienced Python developer to join our Alpha Data team, responsible for delivering a vast quantity of data served to users worldwide. You will be a cornerstone of a growing Data team, becoming a technical subject matter expert and developing strong working relationships with quant researchers, traders, and fellow colleagues across our Technology organization. Alpha Data teams are able to deploy valuable data to the rest of the Squarepoint business at speed. Ingestion pipelines and data transformation jobs are resilient and highly maintainable, while t…

Software Developer – Internal Compute Frameworks (C++)

On-site · Montréal

Position Overview The Internal Compute Frameworks (ICF) team is building a cloud-like abstraction layer over the firm’s global infrastructure. Our platforms reduce the complexity and friction of low-level infrastructure for investment and technology teams, spanning compute orchestration, batch scheduling, service hosting and petabyte-scale storage. We are looking for an experienced C++ developer to design and build high-performance infrastructure, platforms and tooling. Depending on team needs and experience, the role may focus on compute, orchestration, services, storage or shared capabi…

Software Developer - Internal Compute Frameworks (Python)

On-site · Montréal

Position Overview: We are seeking an experienced and passionate Software Developer to join our growing team. In this role, you will play a key part in designing, building, and maintaining Squarepoint internal frameworks, services and platforms that power our business. You will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies and make a direct impact on the efficiency and productivity of both investment and technology teams within SquarePoint. Design, develop, and maintain high-quality, scalable, and performant software solutions. Contribute to the development of company-wide pr…

Software Developer - Internal Compute Frameworks (Rust)

On-site · Montréal

Position Overview: We are seeking an experienced and passionate Software Developer to join our growing team. In this role, you will play a key part in designing, building, and maintaining Squarepoint internal frameworks, services and platforms that power our business. You will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies and make a direct impact on the efficiency and productivity of both investment and technology teams within Squarepoint. Key Responsibilities: Design, develop, and maintain scalable, production-grade distributed systems. Collaborate closely with investment…

Software Developer - Risk Reliability

On-site · Montréal

Position Overview: As a Reliability Software Engineer in the Risk team, you will play a critical role in ensuring the performance, stability and availability of the Risk software systems, as well as their day-to-day operations. Squarepoint's Risk platform is responsible for position management, profit/loss computation, inventory/locate management and internal order routing. These critical systems need to be performant, resilient, and capable of timely processing of high volumes of trading data. As such, the team requires a high software development capacity, along with strong analytical ski…

Software Developer - Risk Data Pipelines

On-site · Montréal

Position Overview: Risk Technology develops core services and systems required by Squarepoint’s systematic and quantitative trading strategies, such as real-time risk controls, position/inventory/P&L monitoring, internal order routing, and various pre and post-trading services. Risk Data Pipelines develops software on top of the core Risk Technology platform to handle market or asset-class specific processing, including: Trade Data Ingress - Normalize and stream trade data to Squarepoint's systems from trading platforms like Bloomberg, Fidessa and SpiderRock. Trade Data Egress - Feeds to…

Software Developer - Risk Technology

On-site · Montréal

Position Overview: Risk Technology is a global team that designs, builds and maintains Squarepoint’s trading risk platform, which is responsible for trade capture, position management, profit/loss computation, inventory/locate management and internal order routing. These critical systems need to be performant, resilient, and capable of timely processing of high volumes of trading data in both live and historical scenarios, requiring solutions to process, propagate and store rapidly changing datasets efficiently. The Risk platform is undergoing significant investment to build a new service o…

Support Analyst - Trade Flow Pilot

On-site · Montréal

Overview of Support Analyst - Trade Flow Pilot: Coordinate on-boarding and migration of trading flows with technology and business stakeholders Pipe cleaning of new asset classes to be traded in the firm using internal applications and broker/exchanges before the full-scale trading Gatekeep the production environment by reviewing the changes in technology space; Create and maintain internal tools and scripts Typical Day of Support Analyst: Conduct scheduled pipe cleaning activities with regional trading desks and operations Carry out analysis, planning & execution for any ongoing on b…

Technology Integration Specialist

On-site · Montréal

Position Overview: Integration projects team plays a crucial role in the analysis, planning, and coordination of upgrades, rollouts, and decommission across firm’s trading, research, and UX’s front-to-back workflows. As an integral member of team, you will collaborate closely with a wide range of technology teams and quantitative researchers, offering you the opportunity to gain a deep understanding of technology architecture, business operations, and to develop your project management and organizational skills. Project manage large scale firm wide roll outs of applications and infrastruct…

Trade Flow Support - Trading Application Support

On-site · Montréal

Position Overview: Manage global trading platform readiness: pre-trading & post-trading Provide monitoring and support for end to end transaction flow across the trading platform Quickly identify, analyze and correct alerts & issues and/or escalate to minimize trade flow impact and preempt outages Incident management: create and send reports following established process Intensive interaction with trading community, back office operations, brokers, exchanges, development and infrastructure teams Support scheduled changes: application deployments, network implementations and server main…

Network Specialist - Core

On-site · Montréal

Position Overview: Squarepoint is looking for a highly skilled and detail-oriented Network Core Specialist to architect, develop, optimize and secure scalable networks for Datacenter, Campus and Cloud infrastructures. The Network Core Specialist is part of a team that work closely with stakeholders, software engineers and other infrastructure teams to design enterprise network solutions that align with Squarepoint business objectives in a timely manner and ensure high availability and performance. Design and implement scalable, highly available and deterministic network solutions in a m…

Network Specialist - Reliability

On-site · Montréal

Position Overview: The role of the Network Reliability Specialist is to ensure the stability and integrity of all aspects that comprise the Squarepoint global trading network, which includes the regional data centers, regional offices, and various cloud service providers. These aspects include and are not limited to the delivery and support of various projects involving data, voice, video, network security, storage area networks, wireless networks, network monitoring, and capacity management. The Network Reliability Specialist will oversee and participate in the installation, monitoring,…

Network Specialist - Security

On-site · Montréal

Position Overview: As a Network Security Specialist at Squarepoint, you will play a critical role in safeguarding the global network infrastructure, spanning regional data centers, offices, co-locations, and public cloud providers. Your primary responsibility will be to design, implement, and maintain robust security controls and services that protect the organization's network infrastructure. This will involve leading and participating in various projects, including the installation, monitoring, and optimization of network and security hardware, software, and communication links. Desig…

Network Specialist - ULL

On-site · Montréal

Position Overview: The role of the Ultra Low Latency Network Specialist is to ensure the stability and integrity of all aspects that comprise the Squarepoint global trading collocation network which includes infrastructure in 30 data centre sites across AMER, APAC and EMEA. The Ultra Low Latency Network Specialist will oversee and participate with the installation, monitoring, maintenance, support, optimization, and documentation of all network hardware, security hardware, software and connectivity.  This includes managing multiple projects and configuring/optimizing the network to ensure…

Platform Application Specialist

On-site · Montréal

Role Overview: As a Platform Services Specialist at Squarepoint, you will play a crucial technical role in delivering and maintaining mission-critical platform infrastructure using the DevOps methodology. You will work with a diverse group of stakeholders, including developers, researchers, and infrastructure teams, to build, automate, and scale the solutions and services used across the firm. You will be responsible for designing, monitoring, and scaling our platform infrastructure. You will have the opportunity to make a significant impact on the productivity and efficiency of our teams…

Senior Quant Researcher - CTA/Short-Term

On-site · Montréal

Position Overview: Research and implement strategies within the firm’s automated trading framework. Analyze large data sets using advanced statistical methods to identify trading opportunities. Develop a strong understanding of market structure of various exchanges and asset classes. Critically question results to ensure they are statistically significant and robust. Typical Day of Quant Researcher: Primary focus throughout the day is on researching and implementing trading ideas. Before market open, check that all required data and related processes are ready for the trading day. D…

Senior Quant Researcher - Equity Mid/Low Frequency

On-site · Montréal

Position Overview: Research and implement strategies within the firm’s automated trading framework. Analyze large data sets using advanced statistical methods to identify trading opportunities. Develop a strong understanding of market structure of various exchanges and asset classes. Typical Day of Quant Researcher: Primary focus throughout the day is on researching and implementing trading ideas. Before market open, check that all required data and related processes are ready for the trading day. During market hours, sporadically monitor behavior and performance of strategies. Requ…

Senior Quant Researcher - Fixed Income

On-site · Montréal

Position Overview: Research and implement strategies within the firm’s automated trading framework. Analyze large data sets using advanced statistical methods to identify trading opportunities. Develop a strong understanding of market structure of various exchanges and asset classes. Typical Day of Quant Researcher: Primary focus throughout the day is on researching and implementing trading ideas. Before market open, check that all required data and related processes are ready for the trading day. During market hours, sporadically monitor behavior and performance of strategies. Requ…

Senior Quant Researcher - Intraday Statistical Arbitrage

On-site · Montréal

Position Overview: Research and implement strategies within the firm’s automated trading framework. Analyze large data sets using advanced statistical methods to identify trading opportunities. Develop a strong understanding of market structure of various exchanges and asset classes. Typical Day of Quant Researcher: Primary focus throughout the day is on researching and implementing trading ideas. Before market open, check that all required data and related processes are ready for the trading day. During market hours, sporadically monitor behavior and performance of strategies. Requ…

Senior Quant Researcher - Volatility

On-site · Montréal

Position Overview: Research and implement strategies within the firm’s automated trading framework. Analyze large data sets using advanced statistical methods to identify trading opportunities. Develop a strong understanding of market structure of various exchanges and asset classes. Typical Day of Quant Researcher: Primary focus throughout the day is on researching and implementing trading ideas. Before market open, check that all required data and related processes are ready for the trading day. During market hours, sporadically monitor behavior and performance of strategies. Requ…