Key Responsibilities

Some notable responsibilities will include:

• Planning and execution. Breaking project work down and able to accurately estimate task effort.
• Work collaboratively with our economists to build and develop tools and systems to support our quantitative research
• Developing and deploying API services
• Designing and developing web scraping infrastructure
• Code design and review feedback for economists and junior developers
• Coach quantitative economists and junior developers, collecting user feedback, and suggesting features/updates
• Contribute to growing engineering standards and practices
• Contributing to technical, client-facing projects, as an example by managing ETL process and/or optimizing algorithm performance for analysis
• Contribute to the team ownership of production services, troubleshooting where necessary
• Own technical direction, comfortable making architectural decisions, leading project delivery

Key Skills and Attributes

The successful candidate will have:

• 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)
• 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 required for the role:

• Python – the central language in our stack
• Experience working with multiple databases, relational and document-based.
• Comfort working with large data sets, 100> terabytes
• Experience designing, developing and deploying performant APIs
• Experience automating DevOps via platform tooling
• Experience with DevOps tooling: Git, CI/CD, package repositories, credentials stores
• Knowledge of container technologies such as Docker
• Experience developing for cloud-first deployments (AWS/Azure/GCP) using infrastructure as code tooling (e.g. Pulumi)

Desirable:

• Exposure to complex financial data
• Extraction of data from semi-structured sources such as PDFs
• Knowledge of web-scraping frameworks and design patterns

Why Fideres

Fideres’s vision is to become the leader in litigation-only economic consulting globally, 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 France and 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.

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 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.

Applying

To apply, you will need to submit your CV and cover letter via the 'Apply' button. Please note that we consider a thoughtful and well considered cover letter to be an integral part of our application process.