Software Engineer

The Role

The Global Operations Technology team at Schonfeld is tasked with creating a platform that serves as the golden data source for post trade operational data – transaction capture, near real-time positions, start-of-day position, end-of-day position, trades, executions and P&L. The team is responsible for

• Drop copy and FIX integrations for post trade across our multi-manager multi-strategy platform.
• Building and managing positions across a wide array of asset classes including listed and OTC products.
• Building and maintaining all systems related to the fund’s intraday and end of day trade reporting facilities across all investments to our Prime Brokers, Fund Primary and Shadow books of record systems.

What you’ll do 

Senior 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 run projects and lead initiatives. You will participate in an Agile framework, continuously improving and expanding platform capabilities based on rapidly changing business requirements as well as providing Level 3 support across the globe.

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 (Docker) orchestrated by Kubernetes with Helm. The ideal candidate will have a proven ability to solve problems and an interest in continuous improvement and learning.

**What you’ll bring
**What you need:

• At minimum, seven years of experience in financial services, working on applications supporting the trade lifecycle
• At minimum, seven years of Java development
• Expertise with design and architecture (microservices experience preferred)
• Experience leading strategic technical initiatives from start to finish
• Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred)
• Experience with building and consuming from REST APIs
• Experience with messaging systems (Kafka preferred)
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Experience mentoring junior developers
• Strong ownership experience and a track record of delivering results

We’d love if you had:

• Experience supporting listed and OTC instruments typical in a Global Macro strategy (Fixed Income, Credit, Rates, Equities, Futures)
• Experience developing and supporting stateful applications build on Apache Flink
• Experience and knowledge of:
  • Cloud services such as AWS
  • Containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes with Helm.