Job Description

THE ROLE

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Senior Software Engineer

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Responsibilities

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- Design and develop software supporting research, trading and portfolio management.
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- Build cloud-native applications and distributed systems on AWS.
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- Design APIs and data pipelines processing large volumes of market data.
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- Build real-time systems supporting investment workflows.
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- Improve platform scalability, performance and security.
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- Work directly with PMs, traders and quantitative researchers.
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- Drive engineering standards and best practices.
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- Contribute to long-term architecture decisions.
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Focus Areas

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This is heavily focused on:

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- Greenfield engineering
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- Ownership
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- Product thinking
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- Building systems from scratch
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Technology Stack

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Core:

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- Python
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- Django
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- PostgreSQL
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- AWS
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- React
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- TypeScript
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- Docker
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- GitHub
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- CI/CD
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Nice to have:

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- Event-driven systems
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- Messaging systems
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- Low latency systems
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- Financial markets experience
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Must have:

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- Strong Python engineering experience
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- Experience building products from inception through production
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- Demonstrable ownership of systems and architecture decisions
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- Strong backend engineering experience
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- Distributed systems experience
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- Cloud experience (AWS preferred)
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- Secure career history with long-term commitment
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- Strong communication skills
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Preferred:

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- Financial markets experience
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- Trading systems experience
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- Real-time systems experience
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- Startup or scale-up experience
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- Experience in smaller engineering teams with high ownership
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Candidate Expectations

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The client is specifically looking for candidates who can clearly answer: "What products have you built?" and "What was your contribution from idea through production?"

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📌 Senior Software Engineer (Victoria)
🏢 Pearson Carter
📍 Victoria