Software Engineer

Schonfeld•New York, NY

11d•$175,000 - $215,000

About The Position

Schonfeld is seeking a motivated technologist to join its Accounting and Valuation Technology (AVT) team. AVT supports the ecosystem that provides T0 and T+1 position, P&L, and transaction data through the Advent Geneva shadow accounting system to stakeholders in Fund Accounting, Valuation, Operations, Compliance, Risk, and Business Analytics. The team supports reporting and automation for Fund Accounting and Tax, including investor allocations, portfolio manager performance payout estimates, and withholding tax calculations. It also provides end-of-day valuations for listed and OTC products traded across the firm. Software Engineers design, develop, deploy, and support existing applications, new features, and platforms. They may run projects and lead initiatives, participate in an Agile framework to evolve platform capabilities with changing business requirements, and provide Level 3 support globally. As a member of AVT, the engineer will maintain and enhance the end-of-day pricing platform and the integration between Advent Geneva and the data warehouse. The role contributes to a supportable, future-ready, performant codebase using a modern technology stack, including cloud-deployed microservices on AWS, containers orchestrated by Kubernetes, and REST- and GraphQL-based APIs. The successful candidate will collaborate with stakeholders and engineers to address technical and business challenges and contribute to continuous improvement and learning.

Requirements

Three to six years of experience in cloud-based Java microservices development, preferably with Spring Boot.
Strong grounding in multithreading, memory optimization, object-oriented programming, and design patterns.
Demonstrated ability to build and implement scalable, standards-based web service APIs.
Experience interfacing with message broker or streaming platforms; Kafka is preferred.
Experience working with relational databases and optimizing performance; PostgreSQL is preferred.
Experience with large-scale data pipelines and task orchestration, such as Apache Airflow, Prefect, or similar.
Experience working in an Agile project environment, including story estimation.
Experience with code reviews and measuring code quality using static analysis tools such as SonarQube.
Experience using AI tooling in day-to-day development.
Familiarity with equity, fixed income, and/or derivative trade lifecycle and valuation.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Strong ownership experience and a track record of delivering quality results.

Nice To Haves

Three to six years of experience in financial services.
Experience with Advent Geneva or similar multicurrency portfolio accounting systems and portfolio accounting fundamentals.
Experience with fund accounting.
Experience processing and valuing credit instruments.
Knowledge of AI models, agent skills, MCP, and context engineering.
Front-end web application development experience; React is preferred.
Experience with AWS Cloud services, including EKS, EC2, S3, RDS/Aurora, Iceberg, and Step Functions.
Python development experience.
Experience implementing or interfacing with enterprise data lakes or data lakehouses.
Experience with distributed or NoSQL datastores such as MongoDB, Redis, or Cassandra.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, deploy, and support existing applications, new features, and platforms.
Run projects and lead initiatives as needed.
Participate in Agile development, continuously improving and expanding platform capabilities to meet evolving business requirements.
Provide Level 3 support across the globe.
Maintain and enhance the end-of-day pricing platform.
Maintain and enhance the integration between Advent Geneva and the data warehouse.
Contribute to a highly supportable, future-ready, performant codebase.
Build cloud-deployed microservices using containers orchestrated by Kubernetes and extend REST- and GraphQL-based APIs.
Collaborate with stakeholders and other engineers to solve technical and business challenges.