Senior Software Engineer C# - Pretrade

Talan • Houston, TX

3h • Hybrid

About The Position

Talan is an international consulting and technology expertise group supporting high regulatory industry such as Corporate and Investment Banking, Hedge Funds, and Energy clients through large-scale transformation programs driven by data, technology, and innovation.
In North America, Talan delivering high-value expertise across front-office, risk, finance, regulatory, and technology domains.
With over 20 years of experience, a presence across five continents and 21 countries, and Great Place to Work® certification, the Group is on track to reach 8,000 employees worldwide, including 600 in North America.
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer (C# / Python) with at least 5 years of experience and a good understanding of equity markets to join a small Pre-Trade technology team in Houston.
The role focuses on developing and maintaining automated trading algorithms for North American energy markets.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, or Quantitative Finance
• Minimum 4 years of experience in C# development
• Experience with microservices architecture, including ASP.NET and REST APIs (minimum 3 years)
• Experience with real-time data processing technologies, such as RabbitMQ, ReactiveX, and reactive programming
• Strong understanding of clean code principles, unit testing, and Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• Service-oriented mindset, with the ability to understand and anticipate the needs of both IT and business users, ensure production stability, respond quickly to incidents, and proactively prevent issues
• Strong team collaboration skills, with experience working in environments where developers contribute across development, support, architecture, code reviews, QA, DevOps, and infrastructure, with a strong emphasis on knowledge sharing and trust
• Ability to maintain high attendance and reliability standards
• Strong attention to detail
• Good communication skills
• Ability to manage multiple assignments simultaneously with accuracy and timeliness

Nice To Haves

• Experience with cloud infrastructure such as Azure, Docker, or Kubernetes
• Python programming
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and tools, including Git and Azure DevOps
• Knowledge of front-end frameworks such as Angular or React
• Financial markets knowledge, particularly in pricing and financial product modeling

Responsibilities

• Develop and enhance automated trading algorithms
• Build and maintain backtesting tools and frameworks
• Adapt and extend the existing trading platform
• Monitor and support algorithms in production
• Perform maintenance and production follow-up
• Work closely with traders, analysts, and technical teams
• Prepare algorithms for validation by internal committees

Benefits

• 401(k) retirement plan with company matching
• 15 days of paid vacation per year at hire and up to 27 according to seniority (annual untaken vacation days are cashed out)
• 8 paid holidays + 5 sick days + 2 personal days per year
• Company health, dental, and vision insurance plans + FSA
• Voluntary STD and LTD
• Commuter/transit benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level