Senior Software Engineer/Data Engineer
We are looking for an experienced software developer / data engineer, to help build the data infrastructure and software libraries need to support the quantitative research of our economists.
About Us
At Fideres we champion fair markets for social justice and individual dignity. Through economic investigations and expert reports, we combat corporate misconduct, ensuring accountability and fostering equitable opportunities for all.
The work of our Competition team has led to major antitrust legal actions against Big Tech (including Apple, Amazon and Facebook), Big Pharma, Big Finance and Big Agriculture. Meanwhile our original and innovative investigations into river sewage and Covid-19 have led to national press coverage.
Our Financial and Securities Litigation team has acted as plaintiffs' experts in the most consequential financial cartels and market manipulation cases of the past 10 years. We are leaders in our field and we have supported our clients in recovering billions of dollars in settlements for plaintiffs.
About this Role
The Senior Software Engineer will apply solid hands-on technical knowledge, vision and an innovative mindset to help us build and maintain the data infrastructure and software libraries needed to support the quantitative research of our economists.
This role will manage two junior developers, and will partner closely with our quantitative economists. A background in, or prior exposure to, finance and/or economics would be highly desirable, along with prior experience in consulting or business analytics environment.
Key Responsibilities
Some notable responsibilities will include:
- Maintain, improve and ensure the quality of Fideres’s existing software/database infrastructure packages and analytical data libraries
- Work collaboratively with our economists to build and develop tools and systems to support our quantitative research
- Develop our application programming interfaces for data integration
- Support our quantitative investigations with data scraping scripts and data wrangling
- Carry out design and code reviews for economists and junior developers
- Coach quantitative economists and junior developers, collecting user feedback, and suggesting features/updates
- Documenting functionality and writing guidelines for product maintenance
- Contributing to technical, client-facing projects, as an example by managing data storage/retrieval and writing performative algorithms to draw insights
Key Skills and Attributes
Key Attributes:
- A keen interest or background in financial markets and/or economics, and a strong belief in fair and transparent markets
- A strong record of academic achievement with a relevant degree (computer science, economics or finance)
- Prior work experience in a consulting, business analytics or data engineering environment
- Responsive to stakeholder needs. Has excellent problem-solving and quantitative skills, including the ability to disaggregate issues, identify root causes and recommend solutions
- Self motivated to perform in a demanding business environment and to assume a wide range of responsibilities
- Takes ownership/accountability, is focused on delivery and committed to seeing projects through to their close
- Excellent written and verbal communication, including the ability to explain complex topics to non-specialists
- Has integrity, initiative, and is not afraid to express an opinion and offer new solutions
Technology Skills:
- Excellent Python skills (the core of our stack)
- Strong understanding of Relational Database Management (we use Postgres)
- Comfort working with large data sets, 100> terabytes
- Knowledge of HTML & CSS
- Experience designing complex performative APIs (we use Flask & Quart)
- Experience with version control systems i.e. Git
- Knowledge of container technologies such as Docker
- Comfortable with cloud resources such as AWS or Azure
Desirable:
- Knowledge of JavaScipt/TypeScript
- Exposure to complex financial data
- Extraction of data from semi-structured sources such as PDFs
- Knowledge of web-scraping frameworks
- Department
- Financial & Securities Litigation
- Locations
- London
Why Fideres
Fideres’s vision is to become the leading litigation-only economic consulting firm, free of corporate conflicts.
Following years of growth, over the past two years Fideres has started to expand internationally and we now have offices established in London, New York, Rome and Madrid. We plan to open an office in Australia and to grow our presence in Germany.
We are looking for candidates, who are committed to Fideres’s strategy and values, and who are willing to grow in this phase of our company’s expansion.
Our Benefits
Transparent Pay
We have a transparent and internally published pay structure by role, we do this as part of an equal pay initiative across our offices.
Continuous Learning
We offer all our employees a learning and development budget to spend flexibly on role relevant training needs. Support for further professional qualifications, apprenticeships and further education is also available. There is no risk of being pigeon-holed at Fideres as our employees are able to reach for opportunities as they see them without being restricted by corporate bureaucracy.
Benefits
We offer all normal standard benefits such as a competitive holiday allowance with the opportunity to purchase 10 days additional holiday, monthly social events, private medical insurance, a gym subsidy, equal family leave for all employees, along with other benefits.
What We Offer
You will get to work in a highly innovative environment where training and development is put at the top of the agenda to ensure that our staff are at the leading edge of their academic knowledge, and where rapid career progression is available to proactive employees who reach out for opportunities.
We offer flexible working hours and hybrid remote working, competitive salaries and bonuses, and competitive benefits.
We are proud of our values and our diverse and international workforce, and we are committed to building a working environment where employees feel safe, welcome and able to have an open and respectful dialogue on diversity issues.
Our Application Process
Applying
To apply, you will need to send us your CV and cover letter via the application form below. Please note that we consider a thoughtful and well considered cover letter to be an integral part of our application process.
Pre-Interview Assessments
Depending on the role you are applying for, you may be asked to complete a pre-interview assessment relevant to the role. This allows us to see if you have some of the necessary technical skills required for the role, and it can also give you an idea of some of the skills that would be required.
Interviews
For the majority of our roles, we have a three stage interview process. The main purpose of our interviews is to further assess your technical skills, your communication skills (team and client) and make sure that you have sufficiently researched what we do and the role itself. More generally it is a chance for us to get to know each other better.
A typical interview process would look a bit like this:
- First Interview: Technical with a team member
- Second Interview: Cultural fit interview
- Final Interview: Technical interview
Questions
If you have any questions about our process, please contact us at careers@fideres.com.
Senior Software Engineer/Data Engineer
We are looking for an experienced software developer / data engineer, to help build the data infrastructure and software libraries need to support the quantitative research of our economists.
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