Software Developer

Software Developer

Stark Investments and its affiliated group of companies encompass investment management and securities trading activities around the world.  Based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with additional offices in Chicago, New York, San Francisco, London, Hong Kong, and Toronto, Stark Investments currently employs approximately 280 people.  The Firm provides administrative and investment management services to a family of private investment vehicles with assets in excess of $9 billion (USD).

 

Stark Investments is comprised of a family of multi-strategy funds that will also encompass real estate, structured finance and private equity.  These funds use a variety of investment strategies in order to achieve attractive and non-volatile risk adjusted returns.  Among the strategies employed are convertible arbitrage, risk arbitrage and event driven trading, quantitative long/short, fixed income trading, distressed investments and investing in private placement transactions.

 

Stark Investments has been at the forefront in developing and applying financial theory, along with information and communication technology, to trading derivatives and equity securities.  The dedicated team of financial engineers, software developers, and traders develop proprietary, real-time valuation and risk management systems to price and trade derivatives and equity securities for the funds. 

 

 

Key Responsibilities:

 

? Develop and maintain automated routines to extract/upload information from/to service providers.

? Implement methods to cleanse and transform external data to make it consistent with internal systems.

? Work as a part of the data management group to analyze vendor and market data.

? Learn basic financial time series concepts and help to check and maintain the data integrity.

? Provide general programming support to the trading desk, research and risk management.

 

 

Requirements:

 

? Bachelor?s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or Engineering

? Knowledge of object-oriented programming concepts

? Candidate must have skills in at least one programming language (preferably C++ or Java).

? Candidate should be a hands-on problem solver

? Be able to learn new software and concepts very quickly

? Must have basic knowledge of relational databases

 Preferred:

? Knowledge of PERL programming and Unix shell environment

? Knowledge of Excel / VBA

? Knowledge of SQL

? Knowledge of statistics

 

Stark Investments was rated as one of the top companies in Milwaukee to work for by Milwaukee Magazine.  We offer competitive compensation and terrific benefits. If you are interested in applying, send your resume to recruiting@starkinvestments.com and include the position title? Entry level Software Developer?in the subject heading.  No phone calls please.