Kunai

Senior Quantitative Engineer

Remote - United States Full Time

Kunai builds full-stack technology solutions for banks, credit and payment networks, infrastructure providers, and their customers. Together, we are changing the world’s relationship with financial services. At Kunai, we help our clients modernize, capitalize on emerging trends, and evolve their business for the coming decades by remaining tech-agnostic and human-centered.

Kunai is partnering with a leading global technology company to hire a Quantitative Engineer. In this role, you will work closely with cross-functional teams to build and automate data pipelines, analyze large-scale datasets from a variety of products, and develop dashboards that help legal and business partners make data-driven decisions using SQL, Python, R, and advanced quantitative techniques.

 

Responsibilities

  • Collect data from products across the company (Search, messages, Instagram, ads etc.) for use in legal matters
  • Automate analyses and author pipelines via SQL and Python based ETL framework
  • Build dashboards to bring your pipelines to life for non-technical partners
  • Stay up to date on new structured data sources within the Company as they are developed and help non-technical partners understand the use and content of these sources
  • Create and maintain internal documentation on pipelines, tools, data sets. This is a highly collaborative and cross-functional role:
  • Partner with lawyers across the Legal department to understand their data needs
  • Partner with economic consultants to develop product and financial models
  • Partner with data science teams to ensure accuracy of analyses
  • Partner with infrastructure and data engineers to manage large data sets effectively
 
Required Experience
  • 3+ years of experience doing quantitative analysis
  • Bachelor's Degree in a Quantitative or Technical field
  • SQL, Excel, and data analysis experience
  • Python/R scripting experience
  • Experience with distributed computing (Hive/Hadoop)
  • Experience with Unix/Linux
  • Experience initiating and driving projects to completion with minimal guidance
  • Experience working cross-functionally and communicating technical content to general audiences
 
Optional Skills
  • MBA or Masters in a technical discipline
  • PHP experience
  • Experience working with non-technical partners
 

Our success over the past 20 years is rooted in our exceptional team, which thrives in a culture of collaboration, creativity, and continuous learning. 

We are proud to offer our employees a range of benefits, including competitive compensation, professional development opportunities, and flexible work arrangements, all designed to help them thrive. As we continue to expand, we remain committed to cultivating an environment where people feel valued, have a voice, and are given the tools to grow—both personally and professionally—while pushing the boundaries of innovation in the fintech industry.

 

Minimum Degree Required:

  • Bachelor’s Degree, in lieu of a degree, demonstrating in addition to the minimum years of experience required for the role, three years of specialized training and/or progressively responsible work experience in technology for each missing year of college is required