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Coatue Management

Engineers (Scala)

CompanyCoatue Management
Roles
  • Engineers (Scala)
  • Data Scientists
Typefull-time
Role taxonomySoftware EngineeringData / Analytics
SpecialtiesSoftware Engineering, Data Science
LocationNew York, NY
Salary
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Hiring notesSponsors visas.
TechPythonScalaAWSML/AI
Parsed locationsNew York, NY
Posted byizyda
PostedJan 3, 2019
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Original posting

Coatue Management | New York, NY | Engineers (Scala) / Data Scientists | Full-time | ONSITE | Sponsor Visas Coatue Management is a hedge fund based in New York City. We focus on investments in the technology, media and telecommunications sectors. We're building a market intelligence platform based on non-traditional data (ie. non-financial data). We look for unique and creative sources of data, and use it to model key firm and economic metrics. Data Engineer: - Experience in using and tuning Spark on large datasets (>10TB) for batch processing - Preferably has experience with AWS EMR and/or has used Scala for data engineering - Bonus: Experience with other big data tech (e.g. Hadoop/YARN, Scalding, Flink) and/or lambda architectures Keyword skills: Scala, Spark, Redshift, Lambda Algorithmist: - Experience in Scala (or any other functional language e.g. Haskell, F#, OCaml) - Strong algorithms and data structure background e.g. competitive programming - Bonus: Prior experience in using/implementing ML/NLP algorithms at scale Data Scientist: - We prioritize very strong skills at R (preferable!) or Python - Keen to do ad hoc data diving but also build automated tools for repeating that analysis - Employs best practices of software engineering in data science work (ie. Git, DRY etc.) - Driven & excited by forecasting problems; you care more about making great forecasts of the future as pragmatically as possible than you do about any particular statistical methodology or library. Keyword skills: Data Science, R, Python I lead the team - feel free to reach out directly at ai [] coatue .com