Senior Financial Software Engineer
Role Overview
Seeking a full-stack engineer to lead software engineering teams and set technical direction.
The role requires understanding financial logic and capital markets, including equity analysis, valuation, options, and derivatives.
Key Skills for This Role
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Company and platform
Surlamer Investments is a private investment management firm spanning algorithmic hedge funds, public markets, and technology-driven private ventures.
A spin-out is commercializing an AI-enabled trading research and ideation platform combining proprietary algorithms, LLMs, and quantitative analysis for institutional investment decisions.
Role overview
Seeking a full-stack engineer to lead software engineering teams and set technical direction.
The role requires understanding financial logic and capital markets, including equity analysis, valuation, options, and derivatives.
Responsibilities
- Build and scale software systems, backend services, frontend applications, databases, integrations, and quantitative models for investment workflows.
- Improve financial data integrations, test models and platform workflows, and support risk analysis and performance tracking.
- Collaborate with investment and leadership teams; document methods, assumptions, architecture, and decisions.
- Evaluate agentic AI, LLMs, and financial engineering capabilities for the platform.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Finance, or a related field; Master’s degree or higher preferred.
- At least 5 years of full-stack software development experience, including frontend/UI, backend, and relational databases.
- Advanced Python; strong TypeScript and Next.js, React, or comparable framework experience.
- System architecture, APIs, relational databases, data flows, integrations, UI/UX, and software testing experience.
- Experience leading engineering teams and setting technical direction; background in financial markets, quantitative models, trading systems, or financial analytics.
- Strong knowledge of fundamental equity analysis, valuation, options, and derivatives.
- Must live within commuting distance of Newport Beach, California, or be willing to relocate.
Additional relevant experience
- Financial data source integrations such as Bloomberg API/data or S&P Capital IQ are a strong plus.
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary is $180,000 per year, commensurate with experience, with a discretionary performance-based bonus and potential early-stage equity participation through incentive stock options.
- Benefits include health and dental insurance, 401(k) with company match, paid time off, professional development assistance, and relocation assistance.
Workplace
- Work location is in person.
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