Two Sigma is a financial sciences company that uses data analysis, invention, and rigorous inquiry to solve complex challenges in investment management, securities, private equity, and venture capital. They are seeking software engineering interns to build scalable tools for data exploration and analysis, and to develop software that scales with the company.
Requirements
- Experience with Java, C, C++, Python, Ruby, Perl, or other languages that target the JVM.
- Experience in large-scale systems.
- Exceptional programming skills.
- A passion of with building quality software.
Responsibilities
- Building the underlying infrastructure that virtually every other engineering team at Two Sigma uses, such as our distributed storage and public and private cloud environments.
- Ensuring the reliability of “mission critical” products and systems vital to Two Sigma, such as our main trading system.
- Using a suite of open source and proprietary tools to build the environments that test and deploy our quantitative strategies, also known as models.
- Building and maintaining the low-latency, high-performance infrastructure and systems responsible for executing trades.
- Building and scaling the infrastructure used to ingest data from 10,000+ sources daily.
- Partnering with our Corporate teams to develop tools, systems and products responsible for increasing productivity and efficiency across the organization.
Other
- Coursework towards a Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree in a technical or quantitative field.
- Strong analytical, organizational, and interpersonal skills.
- We are open-minded in our search for critical thinkers who are passionate about technology.
- While we analyze the data-rich domain of finance, financial experience is not a requirement.
- The summer internship program lasts 10 weeks and takes place at our Soho-based New York City office.
