Senior Software Engineer - Credit, Risk Technology

Schonfeld•New York, NY

About The Position

We are seeking a highly qualified and talented software engineer to join our Risk Technology Infrastructure team. We are responsible for building industry-leading systems to generate, analyze, and report on streaming and historical data to enable quick decision making by our risk team, management team, and global portfolio managers. This role will have a specific focus on supporting the rapid expansion of the Credit strategy within Schonfeld. The ideal candidate has a mindset of creatively applying the best modern technologies to solve business problems.

Requirements

Expertise with Python and Java development
Expertise with software design and architecture, particularly data-intensive systems
Strong understanding of credit instruments and products (e.g., corporate bonds, structured credit, mortgages, convertibles, credit derivatives)
Experience working in credit risk technology or credit-focused quantitative finance within the financial services industry
Experience with fixed income risk metrics, scenario & stress testing, and portfolio analytics like VaR and Vol
Expertise with relational databases, data storage, data warehousing, and data analysis
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to translate between business and technology stakeholders

Nice To Haves

Experience with third-party credit analytics platforms such as Monis, Yieldbook, or Intex
Experience with Cloud data warehousing and analytic platforms such as Iceberg, Snowflake, or SingleStore
Experience building systems in cloud services such as AWS, including streaming and event-driven architectures
Experience with modern CI/CD and deployment orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes

Responsibilities

Designing and implementing credit mandate oversight, alpha time series analytics, audit controls, and new reporting requirements to support Credit Risk analysts.
Building full revaluation and analytics extraction pipelines with third-party credit analytics platforms including Monis, Yieldbook, and Intex, as well as integrating future internal or external credit analytics libraries.
Developing direct integration for mortgages, convertibles, and structured credit risk analytics, as well as productionizing vendor report workflows.
Expanding platform capabilities based on rapidly changing business requirements.
Collaborating closely with Credit Risk analysts and portfolio managers.
Providing Level 3 support across the globe.