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Senior Software Engineer - Equity Technology

Balyasny Asset Management L.P.
Chicago, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 12/10/2025 CLOSED ON 2/4/2026

What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Software Engineer - Equity Technology position at Balyasny Asset Management L.P.?

The Equity Technology team at BAM is responsible for building and supporting a world-class suite of tools for our flagship Fundamental Equities business. The ideal candidate has a passion for solving business problems with technology, is obsessed with developing high performance software that provides incredible user experiences and is eager to learn about the intersection of finance and technology. This growing suite of tools spans across the investment lifecycle, including research, idea generation, portfolio construction, quantitative research, trading, and compliance.


Role Overview:

  • Work closely with portfolio managers, quantitative researchers and technology teams to deliver cutting-edge innovative software solutions to businesses
  • Collaborate in a fast-paced team environment to understand, engineer, and deliver on business requirements
  • Strike a balance along the dimensions of feasibility, stability, scalability, and time-to-market when delivering solutions
  • Design, develop, test, and deploy full stack cloud native applications using a variety of technologies, including C#, Python, Go, Grpc, and React
  • Leverage a variety of data management and analytics platform including Snowflake and ClickHouse

Qualifications:

  • Humble team-player who wants to win
  • Degree in Computer Science or closely related field
  • 8 years of professional software development experience.
  • Experience with finance, especially equities, strongly preferred
  • Deep expertise in an object-oriented programming language - one must be C# or Java
  • Experience with Python, AWS, MSSQL, Snowflake, ClickHouse

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