Software Engineer R&D - Junior

About ActiveViam

If you believe that data analytics can contribute to making Financial Services a more accountable and

risk-aware business in an ever-increasing volatile environment, ActiveViam is the right place for you.

Founded by a group of industry experts, ActiveViam understands the data analytics challenges faced

by financial institutions across trading desks, risk, and compliance. That is why we pioneered the use

of high performance analytics in finance, helping the largest investment banks, asset managers and

hedge funds make better decisions, explain results with confidence, and simulate the impact of their

decisions. Unlike most BI players, we are not generalists. Our mission is to deliver train of thought

analysis on terabytes of data in the most cost-effective way so our customers can explain what

happened with confidence and model the scenarios that will optimize their business. We are a pure

player specializing in risk data analytics for one of the fastest-moving and most regulated industries

with a presence in the world’s leading financial market places – London, New York, Singapore, Hong

Kong and Paris.

Our 150 employees take pride in being experts in developing and supporting a purpose-built analytics

technology that has been recognized as “FRTB Product of the Year” by Risk and the “Award for

Excellence for Regtech, Big Data and Analytics” by Regulation Asia.

Choose to be different. Join ActiveViam and make a difference in data analytics for the financial

services industry.

About Your Team

Join our R&D department located in Paris and enter an environment where you will create new

algorithms, concepts, and products in the big data landscape.

We are a team of 35 back end, front end and full stack engineers, focused on code quality and

innovation. Your contributions will speed up the queries thanks to new algorithms, add new types of

computations to help our customers build complex indicators, reduce the memory usage, simplify our

public APIs, etc.

The Role

In Activeviam, the role of a Software Engineer is to create, design and develop applications, systems

or websites and also to test, improve and maintain any software that is already in place.

Software Engineers are people who love to write code and tackle complex problems. They start as

individual contributors, and aspire to become highly qualified engineers who :

• master the technical aspects of one or more ActiveViam products,
• share their knowledge with other R&D engineers,
• develop a global vision of the ecosystem the products evolve in.
  
  

Key Duties

• Execute small given code changes
• Supervised learning
• Get acquainted with products
• Internal support
• Maintenance operations
• Possess creativity and out-of-the-box thinking
• Has passion for innovation paired with technical expertise
  
  

Your profile

• Graduated from a top-10 engineering school
• Proven programming skills with at least one modern language such as Java, C++
• Good analytical skills
• Willingness to learn
  
  

Ideally, You Also Have

• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance, scalability
  
  

What we offer

• A friendly and collaborative team in an awesome office near the Louvre in Paris
• A competitive salary
• Up to two days of remote working per week
• Large company events such as summer garden party, company-wide offsite seminars
• 2 days paid leave to volunteer via our CSR Platform, Vendredi