Software Engineer

Description

The Accounting and Valuation Technology (AVT) team runs the systems that deliver accurate T0 and T+1 position, P&L and transaction data from the shadow accounting system to stakeholders in Fund Accounting, Valuation, Operations, Compliance, Risk and Business Analytics.

The team builds reporting and automation for Fund Accounting and Tax, including tools for investor allocations, estimates of portfolio manager performance payouts and withholding tax calculations. It also produces end-of-day valuations for listed and OTC products traded across the firm.

The company is a global multi-manager hedge fund that works with internal and external portfolio manager teams worldwide. It invests across four strategies: Quantitative, Tactical, Fundamental Equity, and Discretionary Macro and Fixed Income, and relies heavily on its own technology, infrastructure and risk analytics.

Software engineers here design, build, deploy and support applications and new platforms, and some lead projects and initiatives. The team works in an Agile framework and covers Level 3 support across time zones.

The company invests in staff through learning programs, teamwork, internal networks and community work.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve the end-of-day pricing platform and the link between the shadow accounting system and the data warehouse.
• Help keep the codebase supportable, performant and ready for future needs.
• Build microservices deployed to AWS in containers managed by Kubernetes, and extend REST and GraphQL APIs.
• Work with stakeholders and other engineers to solve technical and business problems.
• Take part in Agile delivery, keep improving the platform as business requirements change, and provide Level 3 support globally.

Requirements

• Three to six years building cloud-based Java microservices, with solid knowledge of multi-threading, memory optimization, object-oriented design and design patterns.
• Experience building and delivering scalable, standards-based web service APIs.
• Experience integrating with message broker or streaming platforms.
• Experience with relational databases, including tuning their performance.
• Experience with large-scale data pipelines and task orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow or Prefect.
• Experience working in Agile teams, including story estimation.
• Experience with code reviews and checking code quality with static analysis tools such as SonarQube.
• Experience using AI tools in daily development work.
• Understanding of the trade lifecycle and valuation for equities, fixed income and/or derivatives.
• Clear written and verbal communication.
• A strong sense of ownership and a record of delivering quality work.
• Preferred: Kafka experience.
• Preferred: PostgreSQL experience.
• Preferred: three to six years in financial services.
• Preferred: experience with Advent Geneva or similar multi-currency portfolio accounting systems, and portfolio accounting basics.
• Preferred: fund accounting knowledge.
• Preferred: processing and valuing credit instruments.
• Preferred: working knowledge of AI models, agent skills, MCP and context engineering.
• Preferred: front-end web development, React especially.
• Preferred: AWS services including EKS, EC2, S3, RDS/Aurora, Iceberg and Step Functions.
• Preferred: Python development.
• Preferred: building or connecting to enterprise data lakes or data lakehouses.
• Preferred: distributed or NoSQL datastores such as MongoDB, Redis or Cassandra.
• The team is looking for a full-stack developer with financial services experience.

Conditions

Base pay is expected to be between $175,000 and $215,000.

The pay range reflects information available when this post was written.

The role may also qualify for other compensation, such as a performance bonus.

Final pay depends on factors such as skills, qualifications and experience.

Benefits

• The role may be eligible for a competitive benefits package.