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Please double check you have the right level of experience and qualifications by reading the full overview of this opportunity below.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.Our antitrust work 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.About this

RoleOur Financial and Securities Litigation team are the consulting and testifying expert for plaintiffs in almost all landmark financial litigations. We are leaders in our field and we have supported our clients in recovering billions of dollars in settlements for plaintiffs.This Senior Software Engineer role 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 ResponsibilitiesSome notable responsibilities will include:Maintain, improve and ensure the quality of Fideres’s existing software/database infrastructure packages and analytical data librariesWork collaboratively with our economists to build and develop tools and systems to support our quantitative researchDevelop our application programming interfaces for data integrationSupport our quantitative investigations with data scraping scripts and data wranglingCarry out design and code reviews for economists and junior developersCoach quantitative economists and junior developers, collecting user feedback, and suggesting features/updatesDocumenting functionality and writing guidelines for product maintenanceContributing to technical, client-facing projects, as an example by managing data storage/retrieval and writing performative algorithms to draw insightsKey Skills and AttributesKey Attributes:A keen interest or background in financial markets and/or economics, and a strong belief in fair and transparent marketsA 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 environmentResponsive to stakeholder needs. Has excellent problem-solving and quantitative skills, including the ability to disaggregate issues, identify root causes and recommend solutionsSelf motivated to perform in a demanding business environment and to assume a wide range of responsibilitiesTakes ownership/accountability, is focused on delivery and committed to seeing projects through to their closeExcellent written and verbal communication, including the ability to explain complex topics to non-specialistsHas integrity, initiative, and is not afraid to express an opinion and offer new solutionsTechnology 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> terabytesKnowledge of HTML & CSSExperience designing complex performative APIs (we use Flask & Quart)Experience with version control systems i.e. GitKnowledge of container technologies such as DockerComfortable with cloud resources such as AWS or AzureDesirable:Knowledge of JavaScipt/TypeScriptExposure to complex financial dataExtraction of data from semi-structured sources such as PDFsKnowledge of web-scraping frameworks

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