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# Core Developer at Seven Research

- **Company:** Seven Research
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Posted:** 2024-12-12
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/sevenresearch/jobs/4452682008

## Job description

## Why Work With Us

Solve impactful problems. At Seven Research, our close-knit team unites brilliant minds passionate about pushing technological and scientific boundaries in the global markets. We provide state-of-the-art resources and cultivate intellectual freedom, enabling our people to develop groundbreaking solutions to the most complex challenges of our field. Our collaborative approach celebrates excellence from everyone, regardless of tenure.

## Your Role

Core Developers are at the heart of our technological ecosystem, working to continuously optimize our research and technological infrastructure. In this role, you will build key components to accelerate our trading operations, design scalable systems and tools that support high-performance computing, and ensure that our systems provide the speed and robustness necessary to maintain our edge. You will be challenged to produce elegant and efficient code every day. You will also conduct in-depth research and testing relating to performance optimization, networking architecture, and hardware selection. If you are excited by the prospect of solving these sorts of problems in a collaborative, research-driven environment, we would love to get to know you.

## What We’re Looking For

We seek talented engineers who approach problems with a holistic, innovative mindset. No financial knowledge is expected. You should have excellent programming and analytical skills and be excited to apply these talents within our state-of-the art research and trading infrastructure. You should be motivated to take ownership over core projects and always ready to identify and resolve inefficiencies. You should be continuously guided by the question: how can this work better?

The ideal candidate will possess most of the following:

- PhD, master’s, or bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field
- Strong background in data structures and algorithms, object-oriented programing, and mastery of C++
- Experience with latency-sensitive development and low-level system architecture
- Advanced knowledge of high-performance computing, distributed system design, and network optimization
- Strong problem-solving skills and research acumen
- Strong communication skills to articulate complex technical concepts

Job Compensation Range

The base salary range for this role is $200,000 - $300,000. This does not include other forms of compensation and benefits that are part of Seven Research’s comprehensive package. We will provide additional detail about compensation and benefits during our hiring process.

We are an equal opportunity employer and prohibit discrimination and harassment without regard to race, religion, age, sex, or any other characteristic protected by law.

If you have any questions, please contact us at careers@sevenresearch.com.

## About Seven Research

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Seven Research is a quantitative research and technology company that develops systematic strategies and advanced systems for global financial markets.
- **Entity Type**: Private (bootstrapped; no disclosed funding rounds)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Quantitative finance / systematic trading / financial technology
- **Target customers**: The firm operates as a proprietary research and trading entity, serving itself (not external clients) with strategies for global markets.
- **Mission or purpose**: To design scalable models and systematic strategies that bring efficiency and clarity to complex environments, combining rigorous research with cutting-edge engineering.

## Products & Services
- **Proprietary Trading Strategies**: Fully systematic, automated strategies for global markets, powered by advanced data analysis, modeling, and risk management.
- **Research & Technology Platform**: An internal platform for multidisciplinary research, model development, and execution, built from first principles.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding – Not applicable (bootstrapped); Headcount – 5 employees (LinkedIn estimate)
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: None publicly listed
- **Growth Signals**: Rapid hiring – 11 open roles as of April 2026 (Scoutify); LinkedIn followers grew +499% year-over-year to 629; active career page on Greenhouse with roles ranging from Deep Learning Researcher to People Operations Associate.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Fully systematic and automated** – no discretionary trading, reducing human bias and enabling scale.
- **Multidisciplinary research from first principles** – original approaches to modeling and risk.
- **Flat, collaborative structure** – every voice is heard, no corporate ladder.
- **Talent density** – small, elite team with backgrounds from Jump Trading, Princeton, and top technical firms.

## Strategic Focus
- **Hiring aggressively** to expand research, engineering, and operations teams.
- **Building scalable infrastructure** for global market execution.
- **Maintaining a culture of intellectual freedom and rigorous research** while growing.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “No corporate ladder” – direct impact on complex problems; collaborative, intellectually rigorous environment.
- **Work style**: In-office in New York City (hybrid options mentioned in some postings).
- **Compensation**: Competitive base salaries (e.g., $110k–$170k for recruiting roles, $140k–$210k for developer roles) plus discretionary bonus and 401(k).
- **Visa sponsorship**: Yes, the company sponsors H-1B visas for international candidates.
- **Engineering culture**: Emphasis on first-principles research, production-scale systems, and state-of-the-art resources.

## Sources
1. [sevenresearch.com](https://www.sevenresearch.com/)
2. [sevenresearch.com/careers](https://www.sevenresearch.com/careers)
3. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/seven-research-llc)
4. [wellfound.com](https://wellfound.com/company/seven-research-1)
5. [scoutify.com](https://scoutify.com/companies/seven-research/)
6. [job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/sevenresearch)

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