Schonfeld

Schonfeld

Principal Software Engineer

New York, New York, United States · Principal

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 13 days ago
JavaReactPostgreSQLAWSKubernetesCI/CDDevOpsKafkaLLMsAI OrchestrationAccountingLeadershipCommunicationMentoring

About the role

  • Schonfeld is seeking a highly qualified and talented technologist to join its Reference Data Technology team.
  • The key areas supported surround Securities, Financial Calendars and Investment Professional related data domains such as Portfolio's, Broker Accounts and Books.

Responsibilities

  • Architecture & Development: Design, build and support highly available and scalable systems providing golden sources of data to the organization that support critical business functions ensuring they are designed to support agentic workflows and LLM orchestration whilst driving new uses of generative practices to provide cost-efficient and high performing solutions.
  • Collaborate with Stakeholders: Work closely with key stakeholders within the business and technology on a day-to-day basis to analyze data and technical problems, design and develop solutions that solve business challenges and advocate for best practices and promote successes of the team.
  • Contribute to Firmwide Frameworks: Ensure the code base is highly supportable, future-ready, and performant without latency. Lead in the development of re-usable components and AI solutions to solve real-world challenges and contribute to firmwide libraries.
  • Technical Leadership: Own end-to-end delivery of strategic, cross-functional projects and continuously improving reliability, security and performance.
  • DevOps methodologies such as CI/CD and build automation
  • Drive architectural decisions and discussions with stakeholders and team members, gaining buy-in.

Requirements

  • At minimum, seven years of experience in financial services/hedge funds.
  • At minimum, three years of experience supporting listed and OTC instruments typical in multi-strategy fund.
  • Practical experience with using generative AI to increase efficiency in the delivery of technology solutions and in building MCP servers, agentic workflows and LLM orchestration.
  • Experience leading strategic technical initiatives from start to finish and able to discuss the pros and cons of chosen architectural elements.

Nice to have

  • At minimum, seven years of OO development experience (Java highly preferred)
  • Experience with relational and in-memory databases (Postgres / SingleStore preferred)
  • Experience with messaging systems (Kafka preferred)

Skills

  • Ensure the code base is highly supportable, future-ready, and performant without latency.
  • What you'll bring

Compensation

  • The base pay for this role is expected to be between $250,000 and $300,000.

Company info

  • Schonfeld is a global multi-manager hedge fund that strives to deliver industry-leading risk-adjusted returns for our investors.
  • We leverage both internal and external portfolio manager teams around the world, seeking to capitalize on inefficiencies and opportunities within the markets.
  • We draw from decades of experience and a significant investment in proprietary technology, infrastructure and risk analytics to invest across four main strategies: Quant, Tactical, Fundamental Equity and Discretionary Macro & Fixed Income.
  • At Schonfeld, we'll invest in you.
  • Attracting and retaining top talent is at the heart of what we do, because we believe that exceptional outcomes begin with exceptional people.
  • We foster a culture where talent is empowered to continually learn, innovate and pursue ambitious goals.
  • We are teamwork-oriented, collaborative and encourage ideas-at all levels-to be shared.
  • As an organization committed to investing in our people, we provide learning and educational offerings and opportunities to make an impact.
  • We encourage community through internal networks, external partnerships and service initiatives that promote inclusion and purpose beyond the firm's walls.
  • The base pay for this role is expected to be between $250,000 and $300,000.
  • 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.
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