Software Engineer role entails responsibilities within our engineering department spanning several domains—from data engineering to workflow development—with a focus on project ownership and delivery. As an integral member of the team, you will collaborate closely with other senior engineers, portfolio managers, department heads, and senior management researchers and other stake holders to identify requirements and build robust internal tools.
Specific responsibilities are expected to include:
- Identifying stakeholder priorities, creating technical specifications, and projecting project costs
- Delivering projects via both individual engineering contribution and direction of internal and external staff
- Providing production support for various time-sensitive systems such as signal dashboards, portfolio management systems, external trade feeds, risk systems, operational/accounting
systems and many others
- Improving the architecture of existing systems by employing engineering best practices
- Use modern, proven architectural designs to help enhance existing and build new APIs, frameworks, and CI/CD pipelines and testing suites
- Performing engineering design and code reviews for both engineering staff and others
- Performing data analysis and reconciliations to validate system functionality
- Evaluation of new technologies and third-party solutions
- The role requires solid understanding of engineering principles, very strong programming capabilities, strong communication skills,, the ability to troubleshoot time-sensitive issues, collaborative spirit, project and team leadership, and an analytic orientation.
Beyond the skills and experiences you may have had in your academic and/or professional career to date, the following areas of expertise are fundamental to finding this position with our team a good fit:
- Expertise C#, Javascript, TypeScript (and related frameworks such as Angular and React)
- Strong data analytics and problem-solving skills
- Deep expertise with scalable systems and database architecture
- Experience working collaboratively with business users to develop design specifications
- Experience collaborating with researchers/data scientists to industrialize their processes
- A strong sense of ownership and responsibility for one’s work
- Strong command of SQL programming, database engineering principles and query optimization
- Working knowledge of Python (helpful but not required)
You will possess a Bachelor’s or Master’s, in Computer Science or related engineering discipline such as Electrical Engineering, coupled with a minimum of five two years’ relevant work experience with at least two years in a project or team leadership position. If, by chance, you have related work experience as part of a trading desk at an investment management firm, you are likely an excellent fit.
