Software Engineer I

Job summary

SOFTWARE ENGINEER About the Firm Firm Mission “Achieving Client Success through Research and Technology” Los Angeles Capital, the “Firm”, is a global equity manager of assets for leading institutions around the world. The Firm is recognized as a pioneer in dynamic equity management, utilizing proprietary technology to engineer equity portfolios that adapt to today’s equity market.

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• into reliable, well-designed software
• Participate in agile team practices including sprint planning, backlog grooming, and estimation
• Continuously sharpen your engineering practice and take on increasing scope and ownership as you grow

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain Python applications and services that support the firm’s research and investment process, with guidance from senior engineers
• Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code following team standards: type hints throughout, small focused functions, and clear naming
• Build and consume internal APIs (e.g., FastAPI) and well-modeled domain libraries (e.g., Pydantic), with attention to clear interfaces and separation of concerns
• Participate actively in code review, both giving and receiving feedback, as a core part of how the team ships software
• Contribute to the team’s automated test suites and help keep them fast, reliable, and meaningful
• Help maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) so that changes ship safely and frequently
• Integrate the software you build with the firm’s data platform (Snowflake) and orchestration (Prefect) where the work calls for it
• Write and keep current the technical documentation and runbooks for the components you own
• Collaborate with quantitative researchers and fellow engineers to turn

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