Senior Back End Developer (Remote)

Project Description:

Project for US-based hedge fund. The firm invests in multiple asset classes and strategies, namely long/short equity, systematic, global macro, and venture capital.

We’re looking for talented engineers for a highly visible and impactful internal product. As a software developer in the market data team, you will be responsible for the firm’s primary market data management system that supports both real-time and end-of-day processes critical to client’s Macro trading business.

This is a highly visible role with significant business exposure. The engineer will be driving improvements to the primary system used at the firm to configure and disseminate market data for end-of-day and end-of-month operations, as well as provide intraday market data for our real-time risk and P&L systems used by the front office teams.

This is a hands-on software developer position where you will be expected to balance tactical needs with strategic goals, while keeping a product ownership approach to software development.

This role requires a combination of deep technical expertise, as well as an ability to balance tactical and strategic goals, and a strong sense of ownership over the product being worked on.

The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background in either market data or risk systems.

Responsibilities:

• Enhancements to Market Data Operations: Be able to improve systems and processes that support an end-to-end market data lifecycle, including acquisition, normalization, control, distribution, and archiving. Ensure timely and accurate delivery of market data to trading and analytical systems, with a strong focus on market data needed to value the firm portfolio both intraday and at end-of-day.

• Manage Data Flows: Optimize data pipelines and infrastructure to handle large volumes of market data efficiently and with minimal latency.

• Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with internal stakeholders to onboard new market data feeds, manage existing data feeds, and resolve issues on an ongoing basis in a timely manner.

• Data Quality Assurance: Implement and maintain data quality standards and processes. Monitor data integrity and address any discrepancies or issues promptly.

• System Integration: Oversee the integration of market data with various trading platforms, analytics tools, and reporting systems.

• Continuous Improvement: Stay abreast of industry trends and advancements in market data technologies

Mandatory Skills Description:

• Must be passionate about building mission-critical, elegantly engineered, scalable systems

• 6+ years of relevant experience

• Proficient in creating REST Web Services using C#

• Thorough understanding of asynchronous mechanisms used in modern .net development

• Experience building APIs

• Proficiency in .Net Framework, C#, WebApi, MS SQL

• Experience with Git source code management

• Professional, precise communication skills

• Commitment to the highest ethical standards

• Creating self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components

• Must actively practice clean coding practices (SOLID, continuous refactoring, testing)

• Comfortable operating in a fast paced, Agile environment

• Fluency in operating with databases

• Writing extensive unit tests using automated TDD tasks

• Creating configuration, build, and test scripts for Continuous Integration environments

Nice-to-Have Skills Description:

• Experience with financial market data management

• Exposure to gRPC binary protocol

• Exposure to NoSQL databases

• Containerized deployments using Docker, OpenShift etc