Schonfeld

Principal Software Engineer

Schonfeld
Apply
3 days ago

Base Salary

$250k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and support highly available and scalable centralized reference and master data systems.
  • Lead architecture and development of cloud-deployed microservices and improve the team’s technology stack.
  • Build MCP servers, agentic workflows, LLM orchestration capabilities, and reusable AI-enabled components.
  • Own strategic cross-functional technical initiatives from architecture through delivery.
  • Drive improvements in reliability, security, performance, supportability, and latency.
  • Collaborate with business and technology stakeholders to analyze problems, design solutions, and advocate for best practices.
  • Mentor software engineers and promote software engineering, cloud, AI, and modern framework practices.

Requirements

  • At least seven years of experience in financial services or hedge funds.
  • At least three years of experience supporting listed and OTC instruments typical of a multi-strategy fund.
  • At least seven years of object-oriented development experience; Java is highly preferred.
  • Expertise in software design and architecture, preferably including stateful reactive microservices.
  • Practical experience using generative AI for technology delivery and building MCP servers, agentic workflows, and LLM orchestration.
  • Experience leading strategic technical initiatives and evaluating architectural tradeoffs.
  • Experience with relational and in-memory databases, preferably Postgres or SingleStore.
  • Experience with messaging systems, preferably Kafka.
  • Experience mentoring software engineers and delivering results with strong ownership.
  • Preferred experience with AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD and build automation, React, reference and master data management, security masters, and finance markets, economics, or mathematics.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication and advocacy skills.

Benefits

  • Competitive benefits package and potential performance bonus eligibility.
  • Learning and educational offerings, opportunities to make an impact, and internal and external community and inclusion initiatives.
Schonfeld

About Schonfeld

1,001-5,000 employees
Contact me