[Haskell-cafe] Haskell developer roles at Standard Chartered

[Don Stewart]

Interoperability with Excel and C++ mostly, and for mobile code to
compute grids (all closures, objects etc can be serialized).

-- Don

On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 8:17 PM, Noon Silk <noonslists at gmail.com> wrote:
>> We have [...] our own compiler [...]
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> Why?
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> On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 10:02 PM, Don Stewart <dons00 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi Cafe,
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>> The Strats team at Standard Chartered is hiring expert typed FP
>> developers for Haskell dev roles in London.
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>> This is a "front office" finance role - meaning you will work directly
>> with traders building software to automate and improve their
>> efficiency. The role is very development focused, and you will use
>> Haskell for almost all tasks: data analysis, DSLs, market data
>> publishing, databases, web services, desktop GUIs, large parallel
>> tasks, quantitative models, solvers, everything. There may be a small
>> amount of C++ or F# on occasion. This is a fast paced role - code you
>> write today will be deployed within hours to hundreds of users and has
>> to work.
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>> You will join an expert team in London, and significant, demonstrable
>> experience in typed FP (Haskell, OCaml, F# etc) is strongly preferred.
>> We have more than 2 million lines of Haskell, and our own compiler. In
>> this context we look for skill and taste in typed API design to
>> capture and abstract over complex, messy systems.
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>> Experience writing typed APIs to external systems such as databases,
>> web services, pub/sub platforms is very desirable. We like working
>> code, so if you have Hackage or github libraries, we want to see them.
>> We also like StackOverflow answers, blog posts, academic papers, or
>> other arenas where you can show broad FP ability.
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>> The role requires physical presence on the trading floor in London.
>> Remote work isn't an option. Ideally you have some project and client
>> management skills -- you will talk to users, understand their
>> problems, and then implement and deliver what they really need. No
>> financial background is required.
>>
>> If this sounds exciting to you, please send CVs to dons00 at gmail.com
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