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 reusable 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
What you need:
- At least 3 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.
We’d love if you had:
- A background in financial services with 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.
Who we are
Schonfeld Strategic Advisors is a global multi-strategy, multi-manager investment platform that harnesses the transformative power of people to perform in all market environments. Our dynamic culture inspires better outcomes for our team, our investors, and our partners. We aim to consistently deliver risk-adjusted returns, with people driving performance.
We specialize in four core strategies: Quantitative Trading, Fundamental Equity, Tactical Trading, and Discretionary Macro & Fixed Income. We capitalize on inefficiencies and opportunities within the markets, drawing from a significant investment in proprietary technology, infrastructure, and risk analytics.
We invest through internal portfolio managers and external partner funds, pursuing alignment among investors, investment professionals, and the firm. Our footprint spans 7 countries and 19 offices.
Our Culture
Talent is our strategy. We believe our success is because of our people, so putting our talent above all else is our top priority. We are teamwork-oriented, and collaborative, and encourage ideas—at all levels—to be shared. As an organization committed to investing in our people, we provide learning & educational offerings and opportunities to make an impact.
We foster a sense of belonging among all of our employees with Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the forefront of this mission. Our employees value diversity across identity, thought, people, and perspective which serves as the foundation of our culture. As a firm, we are committed to creating a hiring process that is fair, welcoming, and supportive.
The base pay for this role is expected to be between $125,000 and $200,000. The expected base pay range is based on information at the time this post was generated. This role may also be eligible for other forms of compensation such as a performance bonus and a competitive benefits package. Actual compensation for the successful candidate will be determined based on a variety of factors such as skills, qualifications, and experience.
Top Skills
What We Do
Schonfeld Strategic Advisors is a global multi-manager platform that invests its capital with Internal and Partner portfolio managers, primarily on an exclusive or semi-exclusive basis, across quantitative, fundamental equity and tactical trading strategies. 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 the equity markets. We have developed and invested heavily in proprietary technology, infrastructure and risk analytics. Our portfolio exposure has expanded across the Americas, Europe and Asia as well as multiple asset classes and products. We look for ways to align the interests of investors, investment professionals and the firm, highlighted by the opportunity for investment professionals to co-invest in our funds and their individual strategies.
