Job Posting for DATA SCIENTIST at Code Willing

Looking for the best and brightest!

Code Willing is always looking to expand our development team in our Baton Rouge and New Orleans offices with great talent. We offer a casual work environment with high-end stimulating work challenges.

We are looking for individuals who would find themselves restricted if working for large institutions. Code Willing needs someone who can think outside of the box and will be excited to work with a fast moving, international, dynamic team. Our pay scale is nationally competitive and our upside is unmatched.

What Our Company Does

Make tools to allow quantitative trading to be accessible for anyone

Create workflow applications using multiple types of execution platforms

Create and destroy thousands of servers a month

Create applications to buy and sell stocks around the world at nanosecond speed

Build next-generation network file systems, to handle petabyte size and distributed data problems

DATA SCIENTIST

We are looking for both experienced and junior level data scientists to collaborate both with clients and internal departments to perform research projects on various data pipelines, data sets, and data products.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

Use data science skillset to improve the Code Willing platform. This can include anything from budget forecasting to ETL pipeline optimization.
Perform research on various data science technologies and platforms. The purpose of this research is to find ways to improve existing technologies used by Code Willing and their clients.
Complete research projects for clients. These projects can range from exploring new data set vendors to developing machine learning models.
Use statistical and machine learning techniques to perform data quality and anomaly detection on the data sets produced by Code Willing.
Write documentation and white papers for completed research projects.
Present to clients upon completion of projects or release of new data sets.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

Bachelors degree or equivalent experience in a quantitative field such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, or Finance
Proficient in Python and/or R
Proficient in SQL and working with large-scale databases
Basic knowledge of statistics (hypothesis testing, ARIMA, time series analysis, and probability)
Basic Knowledge of a variety of machine learning techniques (clustering, classification, regression, decision trees and etc.)
Strong communication skills (written and oral)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Masters degree or higher or equivalent experience in a quantitative field such as Computer Science, Data Science, Analytics, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, or Finance
2 years of experience with data science packages like Pandas, Numpy, and Matplotlib
2 years of experience with Machine learning packages like Scikit Learn, XGBoost, CatBoost, and LightGBM
2 years of experience with Deep Learning libraries like PyTorch or Tensorflow
2 years of experience scripting in a Linux environment (Python, Bash, Fish, Zsh, etc.)

NICE TO HAVE:

Knowledge of other programming languages like C/ C , JavaScript, Scala
Experience with Docker
Experience with Git
Experience working with financial data
Experience working with big data technologies like Spark
Experience working with cloud technologies like AWS
Experience building and optimizing ETL pipelines
Knowledge of Quantitative Analysis

LOCATION:

Baton Rouge or New Orleans

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