Job Description
THE ROLE
Senior Software Engineer
Responsibilities
Design and develop software supporting research, trading and portfolio management.
Build cloud-native applications and distributed systems on AWS.
Design APIs and data pipelines processing large volumes of market data.
Build real-time systems supporting investment workflows.
Improve platform scalability, performance and security.
Work directly with PMs, traders and quantitative researchers.
Drive engineering standards and best practices.
Contribute to long-term architecture decisions.
Focus Areas
This is heavily focused on:
Greenfield engineering
Ownership
Product thinking
Building systems from scratch
Technology Stack
Core:
Python
Django
PostgreSQL
AWS
React
TypeScript
Docker
GitHub
CI/CD
Nice to have:
Event-driven systems
Messaging systems
Low latency systems
Financial markets experience
Must have:




Solid Python engineering experience
Experience building products from inception through production
Demonstrable ownership of systems and architecture decisions
Strong backend engineering experience
Distributed systems experience
Cloud experience (AWS preferred)
Stable career history with long-term commitment
Strong communication skills
Preferred:
Financial markets experience
Trading systems experience
Real-time systems experience
Startup or scale-up experience
Experience in smaller engineering teams with high ownership
Candidate Expectations
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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