✨ AI Summary
The Rates Live Risk & PnL team is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to design, develop, and support Python-based live risk and PnL applications for Rates trading desks. This role involves working in a fast-paced trading environment, building secure and high-quality production code, and contributing to real-time services. Responsibilities include system design, production support, CI/CD collaboration, and driving AI-assisted engineering practices. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, 5+ years of software engineering experience, strong Python proficiency, and excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
Requirements
Requires formal training or certification in software engineering with 5+ years of applied experience and a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or Data Science. Must have strong proficiency in Python for production services, working knowledge of real-time/distributed systems, solid understanding of SDLC and secure coding, and experience with CI/CD and operational excellence. Strong problem-solving, learning, and communication skills are essential, along with demonstrated experience leading AI-assisted development tools.
Description
Description
The Rates Live Risk & PnL team delivers real-time trading risk and profit & loss capabilities, partnering closely with traders and desk strategists. You will contribute to critical components across the stack—from data ingestion and calculation services to UI and operational tooling—ensuring performance, correctness, and resiliency under tight timelines and high business impact.
Job Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and support Python-based live risk and PnL applications used by Rates trading desks
- Work in a fast-paced trading environment, partnering closely with traders and stakeholders to translate business needs into robust technical solutions
- Build secure, high-quality production code with strong focus on correctness, performance, and operational stability
- Contribute to system design and implementation for real-time services, meeting non-functional requirements (latency, throughput, availability)
- Participate in production support, incident management, and continuous improvement of operational readiness (monitoring, alerting, runbooks)
- Collaborate with DevOps and platform partners to improve CI/CD, deployment automation, and environment reliability
- Identify and address technical debt and performance bottlenecks to improve platform scalability and responsiveness
- Collaborate effectively across functions (quants/strats, traders, product, other engineering teams) to deliver end-to-end solutions
- Drives team adoption of enterprise-authorized AI-assisted engineering practices within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and operational outcomes (e.g., AI-assisted code review/refactoring, test strategy acceleration, incident/root-cause analysis support), while establishing consistent validation standards (secure coding, peer review, automated testing) and promoting reuse of effective patterns across the team.
- Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Data Science, or related disciplines
- Hands-on experience in application development, testing, and operational stability in production environments
- Strong proficiency in Python for building production services and performance-sensitive applications
- Working knowledge of real-time/distributed system concepts (e.g., concurrency, messaging patterns, caching, failure modes)
- Solid understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), engineering hygiene, and secure coding practices
- Experience with CI/CD, observability, and operational excellence (monitoring, alerting, troubleshooting)
- Strong problem-solving skills; ability to learn quickly and deliver high-quality outcomes under time pressure
- Effective communication skills and comfort partnering with front-office stakeholders
- Demonstrated experience leading effective use of approved AI-assisted software development tools (e.g., for coding, code review, test acceleration, troubleshooting) with the ability to set team expectations for validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
- Strong understanding of responsible AI use in engineering workflows, including data sensitivity considerations, secure handling of inputs/outputs, and adherence to resiliency and security expectations; experience coaching engineers on safe, compliant adoption within delivery practices
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Financial markets background (Rates products, risk, PnL, market data, trade lifecycle)
- Exposure to Deephaven (or similar real-time analytics/UI platforms), including awareness of installation/runtime dependencies (e.g., Java), environment setup, and operational considerations
- Experience with DevOps practices (deployments, release processes, environment management, performance testing)
- Understanding of UI programming (web or desktop) and collaborating across UI/backend boundaries
- Familiarity with Java and/or mixed-language environments where Python services interact with JVM-based components
- Experience with event-driven architectures and high-performance data pipelines used in front-office systems