As way of an introduction I work for BlackRock <http://www.blackrock.com> and we are actively looking for a couple of programmers who would be interested in working with Julia in a financial setting.
Our interests include the core of the language, distributed computing, the Julia UI framework and quantitative/statistical models in Julia. We are currently developing FRP based UIs, streaming time series models and functional reactive calculation graphs. These roles will play an active part in the open source and Julia communities. BlackRock recently sponsored JuliaCon and we have developed a number of Julia packages which we are looking to open source. If anybody is interested ( or knows somebody who might be) please reach out to me. Michael michael dot francis at blackrock dot com 6462310234
