Vue Developer - remote
Are you an Analytics Indiana Jones? Do you enjoy digging up unique insights in the strangest, most remote datasets, but you know how to properly handle artifacts? If you answered “yes”to any of those questions, then we would love to talk with you about joining our Investing Intelligence team as a Quantitative Analyst
Our purpose at The Motley Fool is to help people become Smarter, Happier, and Richer. We educate people on everything from how to choose the best credit card to how to make the most of their 401(k). The Economist has called The Motley Fool “an ethical oasis”within the financial industry, and we are looking to expand our unique brand of advice to even more kinds of financial conundrums.
Required Qualifications:
•You have undergraduate training in either Statistics, Finance, Economics or a similar discipline and 4 years of applied experience. Or, you have a similar graduate degree with 2 years of experience.
•You’re fascinated by markets and investing. You’ve either applied your quantitative skills to markets as a professional or as a passionate hobbyist. (Self-taught hackers who can show their skills are always welcome!)
•You write terse, powerful code in R or Python, both for interactive analysis and building robust, analytics systems.
•SQL is your jam. You don't just query a database –you interrogate it. Bonus points for advanced experience building functions and stored procedures and comfort specifically with SQL Server and PostgreSQL.
•You find unconventional solutions to questions that aren't covered in textbooks. You're comfortable working with dirty data, nonparametric analysis and drawing conclusions from incomple inf...
Preferred Skills:
•You got the jokes in the last section.
•You have experience working with financial data, particularly index development, factor research, strategy backtesting and performance attribution.
•You can tell your histograms from your Lorenz curves and know your way around visualization tools, like ggplot2 and matplotlib, and reporting platforms, like Periscope Data and Tableau.
•You’re a full stack quant and know how to get your hands dirty with less glamorous tasks like data cleaning and ETL. You've developed robust ETL pipelines, using tools like Talend, Xplenty and Microsoft SSIS.
Key Projects and Responsibilities:
•Collaborate with the other analysts on original alpha research, searching the universe for factors that help our models beat the stock market
•Conduct Brinson and factor-based performance attribution to help the Fool’s fundamental research analysts and services understand their performance and make better decisions.
•Help design and implement a robust system meant to keep data from various sources clean and flowing to the team’s research
•Conduct ad-hoc research for stakeholders across the marketing, product and investing teams into what investment strategies and policies generate the best returns
•Pitch in on efforts to infuse data-driven investing insights throughout our business lines.
If you think you have what it takes to join our band of merry Fools, please send us your resume and Foolishly written cover letter!
*This role is available for US locations listed here: https://careers.fool.com/openings/?p=job%2Focy1cfwH&nl=1