Software Engineer
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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
- Experience with code reviews and measuring code quality through the use of static analysis tools such as SonarQube
- Experience using AI tooling in day-to-day development
- Familiarity with equity, fixed income, and/or derivative trade lifecycle and valuation.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Strong ownership experience and a track record of delivering quality results
- We’d love if you had:
- Three to six years of experience in financial services
- Experience working with and knowledge of:
- Advent Geneva or similar multi-currency portfolio accounting systems and portfolio accounting fundamentals
- Fund accounting
- Processing and valuation of credit instruments
- AI models, agent skills, MCP and context engineering
- Front-end web application development (React preferred)
- AWS Cloud services, including EKS, EC2, S3, RDS/Aurora, Iceberg, and Step Functions.
- Python development
- Implementing or interfacing with enterprise data lakes or data lakehouses.
- Distributed or NoSQL datastores (MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra)
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience interfacing with message broker or streaming platforms (Kafka preferred)
- Experience working with relational databases and optimizing performance (PostgreSQL preferred)
- Front-end web application development (React preferred)
About Schonfeld
Multi-manager hedge fund platform applying systematic and discretionary strategies across global equities, fixed income, and macro markets. Founded by Steve Schonfeld in 1988.
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