The role will be part of a global team responsible for enhancing and supporting a real-time trade capture platform that processes, normalizes, and enriches the firm’s executions across multiple asset classes. The platform feeds executions into downstream systems including real-time P&L, risk, and reporting. This position will focus on a Private Credit buildout, with particular emphasis on equities and options, and on integrating with third-party platforms such as Murex and Imagine. The engineer will focus on delivering high-quality, scalable Java-based services and Kafka-based streaming solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain Java-based services that support a real-time trade capture platform for our autocallable buildout
- Build and support Kafka-based streaming pipelines to process, normalize, and distribute trading and reference data to downstream systems (P&L, risk, reporting, and analytics).
- Collaborate closely with portfolio managers, traders, operations, and risk teams to understand requirements and translate them into robust technical solutions.
- Contribute to the architecture and design of low-latency, high-availability components, including multithreaded and distributed systems.
- Write clean, testable, and well-documented code, including unit, integration, and regression tests; participate in code reviews and design reviews.
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve production issues related to trading workflows, data integrity, and system performance, including on-call rotation as needed.
- Work with DevOps/Platform teams to enhance CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and observability (logging, metrics, alerting).
- Participate in global team ceremonies (standups, planning, retrospectives) and contribute to continuous improvement of development processes and standards.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 5+ years of professional software development experience with a strong focus on Java 17+ (Core Java, collections, concurrency, JVM fundamentals).
- 2+ years of professional experience with front end technologies using Typescript/Javascript, in this role you’ll be using Angular
- Strong knowledge and practical experience with Kafka (designing, building, and supporting streaming/real-time data pipelines).
- Functional exposure to the investment process, particularly equities, credit, futures, or products, is highly desirable.
- Solid understanding of object-oriented design, design patterns, and multithreading in distributed systems.
- Hands-on experience with unit testing and integration testing frameworks and best practices.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipeline (Jenkins) and DevOps tools/practices (e.g., Git, build tools, automated testing, deployment automation).
- Experience with SQL databases such as Postgres and SQLServer
- Comfort with modern IDEs and developer productivity tools; openness to using AI-assisted development tools and modern developer workflows.
- Proven ability to quickly analyze, troubleshoot, and resolve complex production and integration issues under time pressure.
- Highly detail-oriented, with strong ownership, accountability, and follow-through on deliverables.
- Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with a distributed global team across time zones.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, including clear and concise status reporting to technical and business stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to quickly learn and understand existing systems, data models, and business processes.