Software Engineer

The Role

We are seeking a highly motivated and talented technologist to join us as a member of our Accounting and Valuation Technology (AVT) team. The team is responsible for the ecosystem which provides accurate T0 and T+1 Position, P&L & Transaction Data via its shadow accounting system (Advent Geneva) to key organizational stakeholders in the Fund Accounting, Valuation, Operations, Compliance, Risk and Business Analytics areas. The AVT team directly supports the reporting and automation needs of the Fund Accounting and Tax teams, including internal tools for investor allocations, portfolio manager performance payout estimations and withholding tax calculations. The team is also responsible for providing end-of-day valuations for listed and OTC products traded across the firm.

What you’ll do

Software Engineers at Schonfeld take on a wide range of responsibilities and challenges. They design, develop, deploy and support existing applications as well as new features and platforms. They can run projects and lead initiatives. You will participate in an Agile framework, continuously improving and expanding platform capabilities based on constantly evolving business requirements as well as providing Level 3 support across the globe.

As a member of the AVT team, you will be responsible for maintaining and enhancing our end of day pricing platform and the integration between our shadow accounting system (Advent Geneva) and data warehouse. You will contribute to a highly supportable, future-ready, performant code base. You will work with a modern tech stack – building microservices that deploy to the cloud (AWS) using containers orchestrated by Kubernetes and extending REST and GraphQL-based APIs. The ideal candidate will have the proven ability to collaborate closely with stakeholders and other engineers to solve technical and business challenges and express an interest in continuous improvement and learning.

What you’ll bring

We are looking for a full-stack developer with experience in financial services to join our team.

What you need:

• Three to six years of experience in cloud-based Java microservices development, preferably in Spring Boot, with a strong grounding in multi-threading, memory optimization, and object-oriented programming and design patterns.

• Demonstrated ability to build and implement scalable, standards-based web service API

• Experience interfacing with message broker or streaming platforms (Kafka preferred)

• Experience working with relational databases and optimizing performance (PostgreSQL preferred)

• Experience working with large scale data pipeline and task orchestration (e.g. Apache Airflow, Prefect or similar)

• Experience working in an Agile project environment, including story estimation