Software Engineer - Researcher Experience

The role

You will build and operate internal tools and services used by researchers. You will work with researchers to understand workflows and turn pain points into tooling, automation, documentation, or platform improvements.

What you will do

• Build backend services, APIs, automation scripts, dashboards, and lightweight web applications
• Deploy and operate internal applications using cloud, containers, and CI/CD
• Improve onboarding, documentation, self-service workflows, and internal knowledge sharing
• Troubleshoot issues across applications, infrastructure, user environments, and integrations
• Work with engineering teams to improve adoption, usability, ownership, and supportability of internal platforms
• Contribute to secure, maintainable, observable, and scalable internal systems

Required qualifications

• Strong software engineering skills
• Experience building internal tools, APIs, automation, or web applications
• Experience with AI-assisted and agentic software development tools
• Familiarity with cloud environments, containers, deployment workflows, and CI/CD
• Ability to debug technical issues across several layers of a system
• Clear written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Pragmatic approach to problem solving, with a focus on useful outcomes
• Strong user-centric mindset, with the ability to understand user workflows, constraints, and pain points in depth
• Curiosity and willingness to learn unfamiliar tools, systems, and domains
• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to build trust, credibility, and strong working relationships with researchers

Nice to have

• Python

Benefits

• Initiatives and programs to enable employees achieve a healthy work-life balance

About the company

Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager. It is a technology and data driven group implementing a scientific approach to investing.