Senior Software Engineer; Treasury Technology

The Role 

Schonfeld is seeking an exceptional Senior Software Engineer to join our Treasury Technology team. This team is dedicated to delivering top-tier systems that manage the firm’s securities lending and financing, repo trading, FX hedging, and collateral management. You will collaborate closely with our global Treasury Technology, Treasury Desk, and Portfolio Management teams. Your responsibilities will include designing and building business-critical applications in an agile environment, as well as providing level 3 support.

What you’ll do

• Design and Develop Treasury Applications: Design, develop and support applications for securities lending, fixed income portfolio financing, repo trading, financing cost, FX hedging, and collateral management.
• Collaborate with Business Users: Work closely with Treasury and Portfolio Managers on a day-to-day basis to design and develop applications that solve business challenges and address market changes.
• Enhance Tech Stack: Work with and improve our modern tech stack, building microservices deployed to the cloud (AWS) using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Contribute to Firmwide Frameworks: Ensure the code base is highly supportable, future-ready, and performant without latency. Build re-usable components and contribute to firmwide libraries.
• Engage in Agile Processes: Participate in an Agile framework, continuously improving and expanding platform capabilities to meet dynamic business requirements and provide Level 3 support globally.
• Mentor Junior team members: Mentor junior team members in both technology and career development.

What you’ll bring

Required:

• At least seven years of experience in financial services, specifically working on applications supporting the trade lifecycle.
• At least seven years of Java development experience.
• Strong skills in design and architecture, with a preference for microservice experience.
• Proven experience leading strategic technical initiatives from inception to completion.
• Experience with relational databases.
• Familiarity with messaging systems, with a preference for Kafka.
• Strong written and verbal communication abilities.
• Ability to work closely with business users and communicate across different regions and time zones.
• Demonstrated strong ownership and a track record of delivering results.
• Experience mentoring junior developers.

Preferred:

• In-depth knowledge in one or more of the following areas: equity portfolio financing, fixed incoming trading and settlement, or collateral and margin management.
• Experience with front-end development technologies, such as React and TypeScript.
• Knowledge of cloud services, particularly AWS.
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with DevOps methodologies, including CI/CD and build automation.

Our Culture

The firm’s ethos is embedded in our people. ‘Talent is our strategy’ is our mantra and drives how we approach all initiatives at the firm. We believe our success is because of our people, so putting our talent above all else is our top priority.

Schonfeld strives to create an environment where our people can thrive. We foster a teamwork-oriented, collaborative environment where ideas at any level are encouraged and shared. The development and advancement of our talent is honed through interactions with each other, learning & educational offerings, and through opportunities to make impactful contributions. In our agile environment, engineers are expected to self-organize and collaborate on the best way to solve problems, and they are collectively responsible for the entire team’s delivery. Engineering teams are small and cross-functional, and value learning and knowledge sharing.

At Schonfeld, we strive to cultivate a sense of belonging throughout all our employees with Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the forefront of this mission. As a firm we are committed to creating a hiring process which is not only fair, but also welcoming and supportive. On a daily basis, our employees welcome diversity across identity, thought, people and views which serves as the foundation of our culture and success. You can learn more about our DEI initiatives here - Belonging @ Schonfeld.

Who we are

Schonfeld Strategic Advisors is a multi-manager platform that invests its capital with Internal and Partner portfolio managers, primarily on an exclusive or semi-exclusive basis, across four trading strategies: quantitative, fundamental equity, tactical trading and discretionary macro & fixed income. We have created a unique structure to provide global portfolio managers with autonomy, flexibility, and support to best enable them to maximize the value of their businesses.

Over the last 30 years, Schonfeld has successfully capitalized on inefficiencies and opportunities within themarkets. We have developed and invested heavily in proprietary technology, infrastructure and risk analytics and continue to capitalize on new opportunities. In 2021 we launched our newest strategy, discretionary macro & fixed income as part of the continual growth of Schonfeld’s investible universe. Our portfolio exposure has expanded across the Americas, Europe, and Asia as well as multiple asset classes and products.

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