Aimed at mid-level to senior full-stack developers with financial services experience who can work in a collaborative, Agile environment and contribute to cloud-native microservices.
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Original posting from Schonfeld via Greenhouse
The Role
We are seeking a highly motivated and talented technologist to join us as a member of our Accounting and Valuation Technology (AVT) team. The team is responsible for the ecosystem which provides accurate T0 and T+1 Position, P&L & Transaction Data via its shadow accounting system (Advent Geneva) to key organizational stakeholders in the Fund Accounting, Valuation, Operations, Compliance, Risk and Business Analytics areas. The AVT team directly supports the reporting and automation needs of the Fund Accounting and Tax teams, including internal tools for investor allocations, portfolio manager performance payout estimations and withholding tax calculations. The team is also responsible for providing end-of-day valuations for listed and OTC products traded across the firm.
What you’ll do
Software Engineers at Schonfeld take on a wide range of responsibilities and challenges. They design, develop, deploy and support existing applications as well as new features and platforms. They can run projects and lead initiatives. You will participate in an Agile framework, continuously improving and expanding platform capabilities based on constantly evolving business requirements as well as providing Level 3 support across the globe.
As a member of the AVT team, you will be responsible for maintaining and enhancing our end of day pricing platform and the integration between our shadow accounting system (Advent Geneva) and data warehouse. You will contribute to a highly supportable, future-ready, performant code base. You will work with a modern tech stack – building microservices that deploy to the cloud (AWS) using containers orchestrated by Kubernetes and extending REST and GraphQL-based APIs. The ideal candidate will have the proven ability to collaborate closely with stakeholders and other engineers to solve technical and business challenges and express an interest in continuous improvement and learning.
What you’ll bring
We are looking for a full-stack developer with experience in financial services to join our team.
What you need:
Three to six years of experience in cloud-based Java microservices development, preferably in Spring Boot, with a strong grounding in multi-threading, memory optimization, and object-oriented programming and design patterns.
Demonstrated ability to build and implement scalable, standards-based web service API
Experience interfacing with message broker or streaming platforms (Kafka preferred)
Experience working with relational databases and optimizing performance (PostgreSQL preferred)
Experience working with large scale data pipeline and task orchestration (e.g. Apache Airflow, Prefect or similar)
Experience working in an Agile project environment, including story estimation
Experience with code reviews and measuring code quality through the use of static analysis tools such as SonarQube
Experience using AI tooling in day-to-day development
Familiarity with equity, fixed income, and/or derivative trade lifecycle and valuation.
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
Strong ownership experience and a track record of delivering quality results
We’d love if you had:
Three to six years of experience in financial services
Experience working with and knowledge of:
Advent Geneva or similar multi-currency portfolio accounting systems and portfolio accounting fundamentals
Fund accounting
Processing and valuation of credit instruments
AI models, agent skills, MCP and context engineering
Front-end web application development (React preferred)
AWS Cloud services, including EKS, EC2, S3, RDS/Aurora, Iceberg, and Step Functions.
Python development
Implementing or interfacing with enterprise data lakes or data lakehouses.
Distributed or NoSQL datastores (MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra)
Who we are
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: Quantitative, Tactical, Fundamental Equity and Discretionary Macro & Fixed Income.
Our Culture
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 $175,000 and $215,000. 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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Source: Schonfeld careers (Greenhouse)