Careers
Platform Software Engineer
As a Platform Software Engineer at Hedgineer, you will be pivotal in building and maintaining robust core cloud services, ensuring scalability and optimal performance. Your role spans full-stack development, advanced database management, stringent security practices, and DevOps, all while collaborating closely with teams across the organization to drive strategic innovations and align technology with business growth.
As a Platform Software Engineer at Hedgineer, you will build and maintain the core systems that empower some of the world’s most sophisticated risk and research-focused hedge funds. You’ll work at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, AI development, and backend systems, collaborating closely with our Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) to deliver robust, scalable solutions that address complex financial challenges.
Platform & Core Cloud Development:
- Design, build, and maintain the core cloud services that power the Hedgineer Platform, ensuring scalability, performance, and system readability.
- Collaborate closely with the FDEs to ensure seamless integration of client-specific solutions with the platform.
- Lead the development of new services to enable fast, customizable deployments by FDEs for our hedge fund clients.
- Focus on service and database layers, working with both streaming and RESTful APIs at scale.
- Utilize advanced database designs, including schema patterns like star schema and EAV, to handle high-throughput financial data operations.
- Implement solutions that streamline portfolio management, AI-driven analytics, and investor relations report automation.
- Implement scalable agentic workflow systems that integrate local and remote language models into a system that is tracible, monitorable, measurable.
- Deploy and enhance our intelligence framework built on top of knowledge graphs, vector data stores, and entity extraction on top of un-structured data.
- Implement cloud architectures leveraging tools like Lambda, Kubernetes, and Terraform, making strategic decisions between serverless and containerized systems.
- Collaborate with the FDEs and leadership to ensure that AI and cloud systems are aligned with the strategic goals of hedge funds.
- Implement industry-standard security practices across backend and cloud services.
- Perform regular code reviews and security audits, ensuring compliance with financial industry standards.
- Lead CI/CD pipeline development, ensuring rapid and secure delivery of features and fixes.
- Mentor junior engineers and guide them through complex cloud architectures and AI-driven system designs.
- Partner with product management, FDEs, and data teams to ensure that platform developments align with business goals and client needs.
- Contribute back to the Hedgineer platform by filling gaps in the service and UI layers, based on FDE feedback.
Job responsibilities & requirements
- Responsibilities:
- Distributed Systems Development: Design and optimize distributed systems, focusing on caching strategies, query optimizations, and the appropriate application of different database technologies for OLAP and OLTP workflows.
- Full Stack System Architecture: Develop and maintain scalable backend architectures while also understanding and managing front-end frameworks as required. Ensure seamless integration and deployment of scalable applications that handle large volumes of data efficiently.
- Advanced Security and Compliance Practices: Implement and maintain advanced security protocols, including encryption and identity and access management, while adhering to compliance standards across all platform developments.
- Strategic DevOps and Infrastructure Management: Leverage expert knowledge of DevOps, including CI/CD practices, and cloud infrastructure management using tools like Kubernetes, Terraform, and Lambda. Optimize infrastructure configurations to balance cost and performance using IaC methodologies.
- Continuous Learning and Technological Advancement: Stay ahead of technology trends and continuously update skills in both software development and platform innovations. Evaluate and propose the integration of new technologies that could enhance platform capabilities and performance.
- Product Roadmap Collaboration: Engage actively with the product management team to influence and shape the product roadmap, ensuring technical solutions are perfectly aligned with business strategies and user needs.
- Technical Proficiency: Strong professional experience with Python and at least one statically typed language (such as Java, C#, or Go). Proficient in designing and managing both high-load OLAP and transactional OLTP systems.
- Understanding of Database Systems: Deep understanding of when to use various database technologies and how to optimize data handling and storage for both analytical and transactional systems.
- Mathematical Acumen: Good math skills with a keen interest in developing further knowledge in risk and research analytics specific to asset management.
- Education and Continuous Learning: A degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, with a strong commitment to continuous learning and professional development in emerging technologies and platform innovations.
- Collaborative Skills and Strategic Thinking: Excellent communication skills with the ability to work collaboratively across technical and non-technical teams. Must demonstrate strategic thinking with a capability to contribute to product strategy and roadmap discussions.
Email careers@hedgineer.io with Resume to apply!