Software Engineering Lead (MetaTech)

Our goal is to hire the best and the brightest. We value intellectual horsepower first and foremost, and people who demonstrate an outstanding talent. There is no roadmap to future success, so we need people who can help us build it.

The MetaTech team is the engine behind the evolution of WorldQuant's proprietary research platform — empowering Researchers and Portfolio Managers to create, deploy, and lead template trading strategies at scale. MetaTech owns both foundational infrastructure and the researcher-facing features that expand what is possible within the platform. The team responds rapidly to emerging user needs while driving long-term platform modernization, spanning simulation engine upgrades, orchestration services, caching infrastructure, and the enablement of entirely new classes of strategies.

As a Software Engineering Lead in MetaTech, you will be responsible for the technical direction of a platform that sits at the intersection of quantitative research and large-scale distributed systems. You will need deep fluency in both worlds: the ability to engage credibly with Researchers and PMs about their workflows and goals, and the technical depth to architect, deliver, and modernize the systems that power them. You will lead the team's roadmap across multiple workstreams — from expanding the range of supported strategy types to infrastructure modernization — and lead a team of engineers to implement it.