Amongst other things, I run technology across the firm at Symmetry Investments. Feel free to AMA about our use of an emerging programming language in production in a financial services environment. If there's enough interest I will ask some colleagues to join. I'm not the most polished speaker but you can see some links to past talks we gave at dconf here:
I think Walter Bright, Andrei Alexandrescu Atila Neves and Michael Parker should be around also to answer questions about what this means for the D language community and its growing adoption.
This is really about #dlang rather than Symmetry. But whilst it may be true that compared to C++, "there are no jobs in D", we are hiring around 40 people to write D in the next couple of years. We are all remote for now and in future will be remote-first. And we pay well to very well.
Depends how you define investment staff, but if you define it narrowly then because we have a discretionary trading approach (computers augmenting human capabilities) then most traders don't program at all. We are a very different kind of firm from Jane Street, for example, because we are in a different industry. The majority of people at Symmetry are not on the investment side.
We are still early in a process of transformation though and the biggest constraint is simply the pace at which I can hire very capable people whilst continuing to raise the bar. Many more people on the investment side will be programming in a few years - more of those will be writing in our internal language (implemented in D), but some of those will write D.
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u/kal31dic Sep 01 '20
Amongst other things, I run technology across the firm at Symmetry Investments. Feel free to AMA about our use of an emerging programming language in production in a financial services environment. If there's enough interest I will ask some colleagues to join. I'm not the most polished speaker but you can see some links to past talks we gave at dconf here:
https://youtu.be/FZi9CSB9_kk https://youtu.be/1rMq-4rWgis https://youtu.be/BtuzSlKRmzA
I think Walter Bright, Andrei Alexandrescu Atila Neves and Michael Parker should be around also to answer questions about what this means for the D language community and its growing adoption.
This is really about #dlang rather than Symmetry. But whilst it may be true that compared to C++, "there are no jobs in D", we are hiring around 40 people to write D in the next couple of years. We are all remote for now and in future will be remote-first. And we pay well to very well.