DevOps Engineer

Skills

Develop enhance and support the firm's proprietary applications. Collaborate with portfolio managers traders and other business users to understand business workflows and requirements. Work closely with the rest of the Front Office Technology team to leverage existing applications frameworks and standards established by the team.

Description

Client is seeking a software developer with a minimum of 5 years of development experience in financial services or technology industries. As part of a small, agile team, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, testing, documenting, maintaining, and enhancing code. This role offers the opportunity to gain a solid understanding of portfolio managers' and traders' needs and a deep knowledge of implementing critical front office applications across various investment types. To excel in this role, we seek a software engineer with a strong Computer Science background and a keen interest in adhering to software development best practices. You should be able to work independently, collaboratively with the team, and be passionate about integrating new technologies into finance. Writing fast, clean code, adhering to SOLID principles, following programming best practices, and communicating with front office users, as well as reviewing colleagues' code, will be integral to your daily responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Independent mindset, passion for technology, and an appetite for taking ownership, learning new technologies, and building innovative products.
• Minimum 5 years of development experience in financial services or technology industries.
• Full lifecycle experience including requirements gathering, implementation, testing, release, and support.
• Strong technical and development skills in cross-platform environment, preferably in C# (other object-oriented languages may be considered for exceptional candidates).
• 2+ years of Cloud (Azure/AWS/GCP) experience involving stateless and serverless solutions, event-driven architecture and cost optimization
• Experience in IaC development with Terraform/OpenTofu/Bicep/Pulumi
• 2+ years of experience in container technologies (e.g., Docker, Podman) and container orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker Swarm).
• Experience with SQL development, preferably in a SQL Server environment.
• Exposure to multi-threaded programming concepts.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong team player.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering.
• Pluses:
• Knowledge of arbitrage strategies
• Experience with various financial products such as equities, derivatives, fixed income, etc., and related terminology.
• Experience working with market data (e.g. Bloomberg APIs, etc.).
• Experience with containerization and orchestrators.
• Experience with Test Driven Development.
• Experience with profiling and performance tuning techniques throughout the entire stack.
• Experience with NoSQL databases, including document databases and graph databases.