Software Developer, Development Lab
Polymer Capital Singapore · Hong Kong, Hong Kong ·
- Category
- Software engineering
Software developer on the Development Lab team at Polymer Capital, an Asia-focused market-neutral multi-manager investment platform. Day to day the person automates operational workflows, replaces Excel VBA solutions, and builds prototypes and tactical tools using C#, JavaScript/TypeScript, and Python.
About Polymer
Polymer Capital Management is a market-neutral, multi-manager investment platform focused on Asia. Our goal is to discover and nurture the region’s top investment talent by combining established institutional support with extensive local financial market knowledge. We were founded in partnership with PAG, one of the world’s largest Asia-focused alternative asset managers, and we have been operational since 2019.
Job Description
- Automate daily workflows by addressing operation pain points.
- Reduce the usage of Excel VBA by providing better solutions.
- Build prototypes or tactical tools to prove new operation/analytics ideas.
- Major languages in use are C#, JavaScript/TypeScript and Python plus some Excel VBA as a glue language for spreadsheets.
Requirements
- Coding experience using languages similar to C#/Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python/R.
- Willing to step out of comfort zone and learn, not only programming practices but also business knowledge.
- Able to communicate in English.
Good to Have
- Already familiar with our major languages C#, TypeScript and Python, able to code solutions from scratch.
- Good mathematics and statistic knowledge (understand concepts like matrix and related operations, correlation, standard deviation, etc.).
- Excel and VBA also for coding language