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.
Our Engineering team is essential to Verition's success, developing innovative trade capture and processing solutions that address evolving and complex business requirements with efficiency and precision. We are seeking a Senior Developer with a strong focus on Python (70%) and Java (30%) to join our team. This individual will work on building integrations between trading systems, firm booking systems, and third-party platforms. The ideal candidate is a technical expert with a deep understanding of trading systems, FIX protocol, and the ability to navigate and implement complex software solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Design and implement integrations between trade execution management systems (EMS), order booking and management systems (OMS), and external third-party vendor platforms.
- Develop and enhance post-trade normalization and fills aggregation processes, ensuring data accuracy, traceability and completeness.
- Design and maintain test automation frameworks to ensure comprehensive test coverage.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements to technical specifications and deliverables.
- Perform impact assessments of changing business requirements and infrastructure/platform upgrades and/or changes.
- Evaluate user stories for complexity, scope, and feasibility during sprint planning to ensure clarity and alignment with goals.
- Provide Level 3 support to debug and troubleshoot production issues, leveraging these opportunities to enhance system resilience and reliability.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Finance, or a related field.
- Strong programming experience in Python (5–7 years) and Java (3+ years).
- Proficiency in SQL and experience with databases such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, or MySQL.
- Knowledge of messaging systems (e.g., SNS, SQS, RabbitMQ).
- Strong knowledge of Unix/Linux shell scripting and command-line tools.
- Deep understanding of the FIX protocol and its application in trading systems.
- Experience with financial data APIs and external data integration.
- Hands-on expertise with unit testing frameworks (e.g., JUnit, Pytest, PyUnit).
- Familiarity with cloud-based technologies (AWS) and containerization technologies such as Docker.
- Familiarity with Python packaging and management tools (e.g., VirtualEnv, PyEnv, PIP, PDM) and Git based version control systems.
- Good understanding of DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines.
Salary Range
$140,000—$200,000 USD
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What We Do
Verition Fund Management LLC (“Verition”) is a multi-strategy, multi-manager hedge fund founded in 2008. Verition focuses on global investment strategies including Credit, Fixed Income & Macro, Convertible & Volatility Arbitrage, Event-Driven, Equity Long/Short & Capital Markets, and Quantitative Strategies.
Talent is the lifeline of Verition's success. Our culture encourages individuals to communicate openly across all strategies and businesses, and we believe there is alpha in integration. We strive to empower our Investment Professionals to act like business owners by making decisions based on a combination of rigorous analysis and an open, creative mindset. We have locations in Greenwich, CT, Norwalk, CT, New York, NY, London, UK, Singapore, Republic of Singapore, DIFC, Dubai (United Arab Emirates) and an affiliate office in Hong Kong (SAR), China. Verition has an institutional quality infrastructure with a team of over 500 investment/risk and non-investment professionals.
Verition is always seeking ambitious and entrepreneurial individuals that can be impactful and help to drive differentiated returns.
To learn more, please contact us for information at: [email protected]