Software Engineer (Full Stack)
Full Stack Software Engineer - Systematic Trading Technology
A growing quantitative investment firm is seeking a Full Stack Software Engineer to help build and enhance the firm's core trading platform. You'll join a small, highly collaborative engineering team responsible for the systems that drive the entire trading lifecycle, from market data ingestion and model execution through order generation, execution, fills, and P&L reporting.
This is an opportunity to work in a true ownership environment where engineers contribute across the stack and have direct impact on the firm's trading operations.
Team & Culture
- Join a team of 5 engineers working in a highly collaborative environment.
- Approximately 55 employees firmwide.
- Engineers are encouraged to own products and initiatives end-to-end.
- High visibility, direct impact, and minimal bureaucracy.
- Strong interest and investment in AI-powered engineering workflows, automation, and developer productivity.
What You'll Be Building
- Trading applications that collect, validate, and process market and research data.
- Systems that support quantitative models and generate trading signals.
- Order management and execution workflows that send orders to market.
- Trade fill processing, reconciliation, and P&L reporting platforms.
- Internal tools that improve the efficiency and scalability of the trading process.
- User-facing applications that present complex trading and operational information in a clear and intuitive way.
What You'll Do
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs.
- Build functional, clean user interfaces for traders, quants, and business users.
- Work with cloud infrastructure, containers, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Partner closely with developers, quants, and business stakeholders to deliver new functionality.
- Contribute across multiple projects rather than being siloed to a single application.
- Take ownership of systems and become a key contributor within a lean engineering organization.
What We're Looking For
- 2-7 years of software engineering experience.
- STEM Bachleor's Degree with a 3.5 GPA and up
- Strong backend development experience with modern application architectures.
- Experience building APIs and distributed systems.
- Familiarity with containerization technologies and cloud-native development.
- Hands-on experience with Git, GitHub/GitLab, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Full stack capabilities with the ability to build functional and intuitive frontend experiences.
- Strong problem-solving skills and desire to work in a fast-paced environment.
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