Software Engineer - Open Systems Technologies : Job Details

A financial firm is looking for a Software Engineer to join their team in New York, NY. Compensation: $200-250k

Qualifications:

• Required
  • A Bachelor's or advanced degrees in computer science, engineering, or technology related field required
  • 8+ years software development experience in financial services industry collaborating with quantitative modelers/researchers and data teams, preferably in asset management or investment bank
  • Experience working on very large scale, high performance, horizontally scalable, big data, distributed computing systems, solving computationally challenging problems such as market risk, counterparty risk, simulations, regulatory stress etc.
  • Expertise in server-side Python, object-oriented programming, scalable design, data structure, concurrency, algorithm, performance tuning and distributed systems architecture
  • Expertise in technologies such as, Kafka, Redis, Mongo DB, MS SQL etc., preferably hosted on AWS
  • Expertise in data analysis using SQL, Pandas, REST API etc.
• Preferred
  • Experience working on a firmwide risk system for commodities, rates, fixed income, or credit
  • Knowledge of commodities market, financial derivatives, pricing/valuation, and risk analytics
  • Familiarity with Bloomberg and Morning Star commodities market data
  • Experience using Dev/Ops tools, such as, JIRA / Git / Team City / Octopus Deploy, in Agile environment
  • Familiarity with data analysis using Excel
  • Expertise in an object-oriented programming language such as C#, Java or C++
  • Expertise in AWS technologies such as RedShift, EC2, S3 etc.
  • Experience with Kubernetes and AWS infrastructure