Hedge Fund Software Developer

Responsibilities

• Work closely with development, investment, trading, risk, middle office, and operations teams.
• Design, develop, maintain, and support the firm’s front-office portfolio management and analytics systems.
• Build scalable applications and services supporting portfolio construction, idea generation, exposure analysis, risk management, and investment workflows.
• Work directly with senior investment professionals to gather requirements and deliver solutions aligned with business needs.
• Architect and implement integrations between in-house systems and third-party platforms, market data providers, and research systems.
• Develop and maintain APIs and distributed services supporting internal applications and analytics infrastructure.
• Support near real-time portfolio analytics and investment monitoring workflows.
• Participate in system architecture decisions and contribute to the long-term evolution of the firm’s technology platform.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues across application, database, and data integration layers.
• Optimize SQL queries, application performance, and data processing workflows.
• Collaborate with risk and analytics teams supporting Python-based analytics infrastructure.
• Contribute to operational stability during trading hours and respond to critical production incidents when required.
• Lead or independently execute technology projects from requirements gathering through deployment and support.
• Mentor junior developers and contribute to engineering best practices where appropriate.

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical discipline (or equivalent practical experience)
• 5+ years of professional software development experience in financial services or investment technology environments
• Strong understanding of equities markets and front-office investment workflows
• Experience working with portfolio management systems (PMS), OMS/EOMS platforms, risk systems, or similar front-office platforms
• Experience interacting directly with front-office users including portfolio managers, analysts, traders, or risk teams
• Strong understanding of trade lifecycle, portfolio analytics, exposure management, and investment operations concepts
• Strong C#/.NET development experience
• Strong SQL development skills with experience in SQL Server
• Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs
• Experience building distributed or event-driven applications
• Experience troubleshooting and supporting production systems in business-critical environments
• Strong understanding of application architecture and software design principles

Preferred

• Angular or modern web application development experience
• Experience with Redis or similar messaging/caching technologies
• Experience supporting near real-time analytics or portfolio monitoring systems
• Familiarity with Python-based analytics environments
• Experience integrating with market data providers and third-party financial systems such as CapIQ, S&P, Eze, broker research platforms, or similar vendors
• Experience in buy-side or sell-side front-office technology environments

Candidate Profile

• Show strong ownership mentality and accountability
• Show pragmatic problem-solving skills
• Show maturity and professionalism in high-pressure environments
• Show ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Show comfort operating independently in a lean, fast-moving organization
• Show strong attention to detail and operational reliability
• Show desire to work closely with investment professionals and understand the investment process