Principal Developer / Architect
Project description
We are looking for passionate and creative engineers who are eager to build innovative products and embrace new technologies at a leading hedge fund. You will be part of a small, agile, and highly skilled team of technologists building next‑generation platforms to optimize investment decisions.
Responsibilities
- As a Frameworks Developer, you will play a key role in building and evolving the firm’s core application framework used by development teams across the organization. This is a highly collaborative, hands‑on role with broad impact. Key responsibilities: - Plan, develop, and support the firm’s in‑house application framework - Define and contribute to low‑level architecture and core design decisions - Partner with development teams to help kickstart new projects and provide technical expertise - Collaborate with developers and business users across the organization to deliver mission‑critical platforms and services - Support investment professionals across equities, credit, and other major asset classes - Work closely with the broader Technology team on cross‑functional initiatives
SKILLS
Must have
- - At least 8 years of professional software development experience Deep expertise in - C#, - ASP.NET, - SQL Server - Good working knowledge of Angular, JavaScript / TypeScript, HTML, CSS - Full SDLC experience: requirements, implementation, testing, release, and support - Strong focus on clean, high‑performance code (SOLID principles) - Experience with multi‑threaded programming - Proven ability to build scalable, high‑availability applications and support production systems - Excellent written and verbal English communication skills, including technical discussions - Strong team‑oriented, collaborative working style - Independent, proactive mindset with a high level of ownership and collaboration
Nice to have
- CI/CD systems (TeamCity, Octopus Deploy) - Financial products (equities, derivatives, fixed income, etc. and related terminology) - Order management systems (i.e., Charles River) - Working with market data (i.e., Bloomberg Terminal, Bloomberg APIs) - Workload automation and enterprise job scheduling software (i.e., ActiveBatch) - Profiling and performance tuning techniques throughout the whole stack
