Lead Equities Risk Engineer - Lead Software Engineer

As a lead software engineer within the Global Equity Derivatives Risk Management team you will help drive the delivery of a best in class platform that handles real time streaming position and risk management for a wide range of complex financial products.

The individual selected for this role will combine a unique mix of strong hands-on development skill, involvement in technical design and architecture decisions, and ability to draw on deep experience to provide technical leadership and mentoring to a new and growing team of technologists.

You will help drive the full delivery lifecycle through design, development, testing, deployment and support. The successful candidate must be passionate about working in a fast moving environment, collaborating across a global team of multiple disciplines and agile development process. The candidate must be excited about working with new technologies and continually learning and evolving their skillset.

Job Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain high-quality Java applications, ensuring clean, efficient and well-structured code.
• Provide technical leadership to a small team, guiding developers on design, implementation, code quality and best practices while ensuring timely and high-quality delivery.
• Build and optimize low-latency, high-throughput components for equities risk systems, ensuring real-time processing and stable performance during peak market loads.
• Apply object-oriented design principles and industry-standard design patterns to create modular, scalable and maintainable systems.
• Adopt Test-Driven Development (TDD) to deliver reliable, well-tested and production ready code.
• Ensure compliance with coding standards, security guidelines and architectural best practices throughout the development life cycle.
• Implement and support CI/CD pipeline principles, enabling automated build, test and deployment workflows
• Monitor, troubleshoot and optimize application performance, ensuring reliability, scalability and efficient resource utilization. 
• Follow Agile principles and actively participate in Scrum ceremonies, supporting iterative and collaborative development.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver end to end features and resolve technical issues efficiently.

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

Core Technical Skills

• Formal training or certification in Software Engineering concepts and 12 ye ars of hands-on experience with Java technologies.
• Ability to lead and mentor a small engineering team in architecture, development and problem-solving. 
• Java 17 experience with multi-threaded, high-performance backend development.
• Hands-on experience with Spring Boot and Spring Framework, including microservices, REST services and dependency management.
• Practical experience with FIX protocol, including message parsing, handling and connectivity to trading venues.
• Experience with high-performance messaging and persistence frameworks, such as Chronicle Queue, AMPS or other ultra-low-latency technologies.
• Proficiency with gRPC and high-throughput inter-service communication.
• Ability to independently design and implement complex logic, algorithms and workflows for scalable distributed systems.
• Experience in Unix/Linux environments, including shell scripting for automaton and operational tasks.
• Experience developing applications on AWS Cloud, leveraging services such as Lambda, S3, Glue, Redshift, Step Functions and others to build a scalable and reliable systems.

Development Practices

• Hands-on experience with CI/CD automation and build pipelines (Git, Jenkins, Maven etc..)
• Experience building distributed applications, event-driven systems and real-time processing pipelines.

Good to have

• Experience with React/JS
• Experience with Deephaven or similar real-time analytics/data visualization engines.
• Understanding of market reference data, including symbology, pricing, market feeds.
• Financial markets background, ideally equity trading, market microstructure or front-office trading systems.