Pace ( https://www.paceup.com ) | London, UK | Software Engineer (Python) | Full-Time | ONSITE
At Pace we are building a dynamic pricing solution for hotels. Our platform is based on proprietary algorithms and machine learning techniques that originated in the finance and aerospace industries. Pace is headquartered in London and has raised more than £1 million in seed capital from well-known venture capital funds.
We are looking for a developer to join our growing team and work on a complex REST API and web-sockets server written in Python. These two components are responsible for powering our real-time dashboard, which is the main interface used by our clients and a critical part of our stack. The technical challenges are immense - from aggregating huge data sets on the fly to ensuring consistent real-time delivery to the dashboard under intense load.
SEEKING WORK - London or remote (can also work on-site elsewhere in the EU for short assignments, say 1-2 months).
I'm a Python, R and Java developer with a background in statistics and finance. Usually I prefer to work on heavy numerical stuff (numpy, cython, R, etc..) but I can do a wide range of work including websites (Django or Flask).
Algorithmic trading. Currently only a GUI for managing my existing trading algorithms in Java and a evolutionary algorithm I use for optimizing parameters, but I am looking at using Clojure to implement the trading algorithms themselves.
Pros: wonderful integration with Java, good support for concurrent programming, conciseness, macros.
Cons: numerically intensive code can be a bit slow (but it is going to improve significantly with 1.2, and you can always do that in Java), prefix notation can be quite hard to read if you are dealing with complicated math expressions.
My impression is that as long as you can ignore startup time, Java in general is pretty close to C++ and definitely much faster that Python. I am surprised this would be a problem with Java and not with Python. Did anyone had the same problem with Python?
At Pace we are building a dynamic pricing solution for hotels. Our platform is based on proprietary algorithms and machine learning techniques that originated in the finance and aerospace industries. Pace is headquartered in London and has raised more than £1 million in seed capital from well-known venture capital funds.
We are looking for a developer to join our growing team and work on a complex REST API and web-sockets server written in Python. These two components are responsible for powering our real-time dashboard, which is the main interface used by our clients and a critical part of our stack. The technical challenges are immense - from aggregating huge data sets on the fly to ensuring consistent real-time delivery to the dashboard under intense load.
Apply at: https://pace.breezy.hr/p/c7a2b9de731801-python-developer