About our Role At Fideres we champion fair markets for social justice and individual dignity. Through economic investigations and expert reports, we combat corporate misconduct, ensuring accountability and fostering equitable opportunities for all. Our antitrust work has led to major antitrust legal actions against Big Tech (including Apple, Amazon and Facebook), Big Pharma, Big Finance and Big Agriculture. Meanwhile our original and innovative investigations into river sewage and Covid-19 have led to national press coverage. Our Financial and Securities Litigation team are the consulting and testifying expert for plaintiffs in almost all landmark financial litigations. We are leaders in our field and we have supported our clients in recovering billions of dollars in settlements for plaintiffs. This Senior Software Engineer role will apply solid hands-on technical knowledge, vision and an innovative mindset to help us build and maintain the data infrastructure and software libraries needed to support the quantitative research of our economists. This role will manage two junior developers, and will partner closely with our quantitative economists. A background in, or prior exposure to, finance and/or economics would be highly desirable, along with prior experience in consulting or business analytics environment. Key Responsibilities Some notable responsibilities will include: Maintain, improve and ensure the quality of Fideres’s existing software/database infrastructure packages and analytical data libraries Work collaboratively with our economists to build and develop tools and systems to support our quantitative research Develop our application programming interfaces for data integration Support our quantitative investigations with data scraping scripts and data wrangling Carry out design and code reviews for economists and junior developers Coach quantitative economists and junior developers, collecting user feedback, and suggesting features/updates Documenting functionality and writing guidelines for product maintenance Contributing to technical, client-facing projects, as an example by managing data storage/retrieval and writing performative algorithms to draw insights Key Skills and Attributes Key Attributes A keen interest or background in financial markets and/or economics, and a strong belief in fair and transparent markets A strong record of academic achievement with a relevant degree (computer science, economics or finance) Prior work experience in a consulting, business analytics or data engineering environment Responsive to stakeholder needs. Has e xcellent problem-solving and quantitative skills, including the ability to disaggregate issues, identify root causes and recommend solutions Self motivated to perform in a demanding business environment and to assume a wide range of responsibilities Takes ownership/accountability, is focused on delivery and committed to seeing projects through to their close Excellent written and verbal communication, including the ability to explain complex topics to non-specialists Has integrity, initiative, and is not afraid to express an opinion and offer new solutions Technology Skills Excellent Python skills (the core of our stack) Strong understanding of Relational Database Management (we use Postgres) Comfort working with large data sets, 100> terabytes Knowledge of HTML & CSS Experience designing complex performative APIs (we use Flask & Quart) Experience with version control systems i.e. Git Knowledge of container technologies such as Docker Comfortable with cloud resources such as AWS or Azure Desirable: Knowledge of JavaScipt/TypeScript Exposure to complex financial data Extraction of data from semi-structured sources such as PDFs Knowledge of web-scraping frameworks Why Fideres Fideres’s vision is to become the leading litigation-only economic consulting firm, free of corporate conflicts. Following years of growth, over the past two years Fideres has started to expand internationally and we now have offices established in London, New York, Rome and Madrid. We plan to open an office in Australia and to grow our presence in Germany. We expect to reach full time staff of over 50 during the course of this financial year. We are looking for candidates, who are aligned with Fideres’s strategy and values, and who are willing to grow in this phase of our company’s expansion. What we O ffer You will work in a highly innovative environment where training and development is at the top of the agenda to ensure that our staff are at the leading edge of their academic knowledge, and where rapid career progression is available to proactive employees who reach out for opportunities. We offer flexible working hours and hybrid remote working, competitive salaries and bonuses, and competitive benefits. We are proud of our values and our diverse and international workforce, and we are committed to building a working environment where employees feel safe, welcome and able to have an open and respectful dialogue on diversity issues. Application Process Please submit your curriculum vitae and a cover letter explaining your motivation to join Fideres and your interest in the role offered to careersfideres.com. Please note that we consider a thoughtful and considered cover letter to be an integral part of the application.