2 months ago
Base Salary
$235k - $275k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain high-performance risk systems for the Clearing function.
- Architect scalable infrastructure for ingesting and transforming market data feeds.
- Apply data models and workflows across risk management, regulatory reporting, and clearing.
- Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, data freshness, and throughput.
- Enforce code quality, automated testing, and software development lifecycle best practices.
- Identify and resolve functional bottlenecks and cost inefficiencies through performance profiling.
- Collaborate with product managers, quants, and risk managers across global teams to translate requirements into technical specifications.
- Drive the platform’s target-state architecture and continuous technical improvement.
Requirements
- 10+ years of engineering experience supporting front-office trading systems at a regulated financial institution.
- Deep knowledge of risk management frameworks, including margining, default waterfalls, mark-to-market valuation, stress testing, and backtesting.
- Strong understanding of derivatives, including options, futures, and Greeks such as Delta and Gamma.
- Expert-level Java proficiency building fault-tolerant, high-throughput systems.
- Deep experience with performance tuning, garbage collection optimization, concurrency, and memory management.
- Implementation experience with Aeron and Kafka.
- Expertise in data structures, event schemas, and database models.
- Proficiency managing SQL and NoSQL data stores, including Postgres, Redis, and MongoDB.
- Understanding of testing methodologies, Twelve-Factor App, distributed high-availability and disaster-recovery strategies, and hexagonal architecture.
- Ability to use large language models such as Claude and Gemini to accelerate development while maintaining engineering standards.
- Preferred qualifications include AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Airflow, DBT, FIX, FIXML, Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery, Tableau, and Superset experience.
- Strong ownership, outcome orientation, adaptability, collaboration, mentorship, and knowledge-sharing skills.
Benefits
- Anticipated base salary of $235,000-$275,000 plus discretionary annual target bonus and performance incentives/benefits.
- Competitive compensation and benefits.
- Global collaboration with teams in Hong Kong and New York.
- Commitment to reasonable workplace accommodations and equal opportunity.
Tech Stack
Apache AirflowApache KafkaApache SupersetAWSDatabricksdbtDockerGoogle BigQueryGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKubernetesMongoDBPostgreSQLRedisSnowflakeSQL