Take a major role in the fusion between data science and finance.
Job Description:
- ETL, EDA of alternative data sources
- Utilize and maintain world-class data processing and transformation engines
- Build technology tools to acquire and tag datasets
- Engage with vendors, brokers to understand characteristics of datasets
- Interact with portfolio managers and investment analysts to understand their use cases and recommend datasets to help maximize their
profitability - Analyze datasets to generate key descriptive statistics
Requirements:
- 2+ years of experience building back-end, data analysis projects
- Familiarity with back-end technologies like MongoDB
- Experience in analyzing and research with data
- Experienced with Gihub
- Start-up minded, ability to think in an agile way and be a natural problem solver
- Contribute to all phases of the product development: design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve
- Ability to quickly learn new concepts and technologies
- Have some known contribution in the open source – advantage
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Engineering, statistics
- Superb communication skills (both oral and written) in English
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Punch Above Your Weight Class
Until now the world of alternative-data analysis was too complex, too costly, and too difficult for all but the biggest firms. No longer. Lagoon allows small teams to leverage the best data quickly, easily, and more affordable than ever before. Join the whales and supercharge your analysis.
FAQs
External data is any data other than traditional financial data that an investor can use to better inform investment decisions. Examples include app usage, geo-location, website traffic, social sentiment etc…
Industry-leading firms, like Blackrock, Citadel, and Renaissance Group are already using External data to guide their investment strategies. They achieve higher returns and alpha by leveraging prohibitively expensive proprietary datasets, teams of data scientists, and virtually unlimited research budgets to craft their investment strategies.
Ten times lower than the industry average. Our mission is to level the playing-field and eliminate unfair advantages. That means giving equal access to cutting-edge data at a fair price point.
NO! Anyone can use Lagoon. Our platform is accessible to everyone, yet sophisticated and powerful enough to unlock the promise of alternative data in capital markets.
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