Lead Pricing Developer, Java

Verition Fund Management LLC (“Verition”) is a multi-strategy, multi-manager hedge fund founded in 2008.  Verition focuses on global investment strategies including Global Credit, Global Convertible, Volatility & Capital Structure Arbitrage, Event-Driven Investing, Equity Long/Short & Capital Markets Trading, and Global Quantitative Trading.

We are looking for a Lead developer/architect to join our Data Engineering team to help build out our pricing component. 

Responsibilities:

• As a lead developer/architect of the Verition pricing infra, this role will collaborate with various interfacing teams
• This person will need to understand required technology interfaces, and develop extensible pricing/valuation framework.
• This role will be in charge of the framework which will be extended to have various internal and external pricing models.

Qualifications:

• Java – 10 + years in core java, databases (JDBC and ORMs), caches (Hazelcast or equivalent), distributed systems, Pub-sum/MOM
• Latest Java versions/Kotlin or Scala a plus
• Core Java: multi-threading, performance optimization, serialization, inter-process communication
• Databases – good with SQL, data and relational modeling, DB optimization and normalization
• Working with pub/sub environments (AWS SQS/SNS)
• Unit Tests and profiling – need to have good experience in using unit tests and profiling tools 
• CI/CD – ability automate deployments and support related tasks
• Experience with containerization/scalability/Docker, etc.
• AWS services – Docker and Kubernetes - a plus
• Must have Finance experience
• Good written and verbal communication

 

Salary Range$150,000—$200,000 USD