Software Engineer

Job Description

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Position Overview

Schonfeld is seeking a highly qualified and talented technologist to join its Reference Data technology team. The Reference Data Management team at Schonfeld focuses on building and supporting centralized golden source of reference and master data. The key areas supported surround Securities, Financial Calendars and Investment Professional related data domains such as Portfolio’s, Broker Accounts and Books. The team also supports a centralized framework used to standardize how the firm masters and distributes data. These core sources of data support many aspects of the business ranging from Trade Execution, Accounting, Compliance, Treasury, Risk and Operations.

Responsibilities

Software Engineers at Schonfeld take on a wide range of responsibilities and challenges:

• Design and Develop Master Data Applications: Design, develop, and support applications providing golden sources of data to the organization.
• Collaborate with Business Users: Work closely with key stakeholders both in the business and technology on a day-to-day basis to analyze data problems, design and develop solutions that solve business challenges.
• Enhance Tech Stack: Work with and improve our modern tech stack, building microservices deployed to the cloud (AWS) using K8s. Drive architectural decisions and discussions with stakeholders, gaining buy-in.
• 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.

Requirements

What you need:

• At minimum, seven years of experience in financial services.
• At minimum, three years of experience supporting listed and OTC instruments typical in a Global Macro strategy (Fixed Income, Credit, Rates, Equities, Futures).
• At minimum, seven years of OO development experience (Java highly preferred).
• Expertise with design and architecture (stateful reactive microservices experience preferred).
• Experience leading strategic technical initiatives from start to finish and able to discuss the pros and cons of chosen architectural elements.
• Experience with relational databases.
• 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 and knowledge of:
  • Cloud services such as AWS.
  • Containerization and orchestration tools like K8s.
  • DevOps methodologies such as CI/CD and build automation.
  • UI development using React.
• Experience of Reference and Master Data Management in a financial services organization.
• Experience of in-house and/or vendor Security Masters.
• An interest in or experience of finance markets, economics, or mathematics.

Company 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.

At Schonfeld, we strive to cultivate a sense of belonging throughout all of 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.