Company Overview
Arcesium is a global financial technology firm that solves complex data-driven challenges faced by some of the world’s most sophisticated financial institutions. We constantly innovate our platform and capabilities to meet tomorrow’s challenges, anticipate the risks our clients encounter, and design advanced solutions to help our clients achieve transformational business outcomes.
Financial technology is a high-growth industry as change and innovation continue to disrupt the status-quo and prompt major transformation. Arcesium is at a particularly interesting time in our own growth as we look to leverage our successfully established market position and expand operations in pursuit of strategic new business opportunities. We value intellectual curiosity, proactive ownership, and collaboration with colleagues, and we empower you to meaningfully contribute from day one and accelerate your professional development.
Responsibilities
- Building next generation technology used by some of the most sophisticated hedge funds in the world
- Designing exciting new products for our offering with best of breed distributed systems technologies
- Leading high-visibility engineering efforts on some of our data intensive core components
Qualifications
The ideal candidate will have a strong academic background in computer science and at least 3-5 years of relevant experience as a software engineer at a top startup or technology firm.
They must possess expertise in at least one of the following:
- Kafka or equivalent streaming technology
- Distributed cache/in memory data grids like Redis, Hazelcast, Ignite, or Memcached
- Columnar databases like Cassandra or HBase
- Hadoop MapReduce, Spark or Flink
They must also work with these technologies:
- Java (or any other JVM language), Go, Haskell, or C#
- Relational Databases (SQL)
The expected annual base salary for this position is $200,000-$250,000. Our compensation package includes variable compensation in the form of a year-end bonus, guaranteed in the first year of hire, benefits including medical and prescription drug coverage, and 401k contribution matching.
Remote eligible states include: NY, NJ, MA, GA, MN, IL, FL, TX, OH, PA, CT, NC
Arcesium and its affiliates do not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other category protected by law. Note that for us, this is more than just a legal boilerplate. We are genuinely committed to these principles, which form an important part of our corporate culture, and are eager to hear from extraordinarily well qualified individuals having a wide range of backgrounds and personal characteristics.
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What We Do
Arcesium is a global financial technology and professional services firm, delivering post-investment and enterprise data management solutions to some of the world's most sophisticated financial institutions, including hedge funds, banks, institutional asset managers, and private equity firms. Expertly designed to achieve a single source of truth throughout a client's ecosystem, Arcesium's cloud-native technology is built to systematize the most complex workflows and help clients achieve scale.
Building on a platform developed and tested by investment and technology development firm, the D. E. Shaw group, Arcesium was launched as a joint venture with Blackstone Alternative Asset Management. J.P. Morgan, another large client, later joined as our third partner. Today, Arcesium services over $679 billion in global client AUM with a staff of over 1,500 software engineering, accounting, operations, and treasury professionals.
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