Senior Lead Software Engineer - Market Risk Tech

Requirements

  • Significant hands-on experience designing, building, and running production applications in large corporate environments
  • Deep proficiency in at least one programming language and comfort working across the stack
  • Strong systems thinking with the ability to design solutions that fit across platforms, data flows, and teams
  • Practical, regular use of AI tools in engineering, with sound judgement for reviewing AI-generated code
  • Working understanding of agentic systems including tool usage, API integration, workflow orchestration, and observability
  • Business-first approach to problem solving with strong judgement to identify problems worth solving
  • Proven track record of building trusted relationships with senior business stakeholders and accountability for delivery
  • Clear and candid written and verbal communication skills, including delivering difficult messages to senior audiences
  • Comfortable collaborating across teams to resolve problems and bring people together as needed
  • Experience guiding and reviewing the work of other engineers
  • Demonstrated accountability for outcomes of both individual and team work
  • Confidence to challenge the status quo and a habit of continuous improvement

Nice to Haves

  • Proficiency in Python (primary language)
  • Understanding of financial markets and Market Risk concepts such as sensitivities, VaR, Stress, or FRTB
  • Familiarity with Athena or SecDB and related integration patterns
  • Experience with Databricks or similar data platforms
  • Experience building LLM-based or agentic capabilities in production environments (e.g., retrieval, tool interfaces, multi-agent orchestration)
  • Experience leading a small team of engineers

What You'll Be Doing

  • Design, build, and run end-to-end production applications including services, data pipelines, and user interfaces integrated with firm platforms and data sources
  • Understand business problems behind requests and shape solutions accordingly, sometimes proposing alternative approaches
  • Identify underlying problems worth solving and advocate for them
  • Design solutions considering system-wide impact, balancing speed, resilience, and maintainability
  • Create applications, APIs, and data suitable for AI agents as well as human users, ensuring clear interfaces and proper controls
  • Build trusted relationships with senior Market Risk stakeholders and remain accountable for delivery
  • Set clear expectations on scope, success criteria, timelines, and risks while maintaining open communication
  • Provide transparency on project status, raise issues early, and present options for resolution
  • Collaborate across teams to resolve challenges, facilitating conversations and follow-through
  • Guide and review junior engineers' work, supporting their growth in skills and judgement
  • Leverage AI tools daily to enhance build, test, and documentation processes and explore AI-driven business problem solutions
  • Challenge and improve existing processes and tools, retaining those that add value
  • Uphold high engineering standards in design, coding, testing, CI/CD, security, observability, documentation, and runbooks
  • Represent the team to senior stakeholders, lead by example, and contribute to an inclusive and respectful team culture

Perks and Benefits

  • Opportunity to be a key technology partner to senior Risk Managers
  • Work on impactful problems that matter to the business
  • Chance to develop solutions that remain robust as business needs evolve
  • Exposure to cutting-edge AI tools and agentic system design
  • Influence on improving team processes and tools
  • Supportive environment for mentoring and growing junior engineers
  • Recognition and representation as a leader within the team and broader organization
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