Senior Software Engineer (Digital)

Our Partner is one of the leading absolute return/hedge fund managers, overseeing assets on behalf of institutional investors worldwide, including pension funds, endowments, insurance companies, government agencies, private banks and funds of funds.

Brevan Howard was founded in 2002 and launched its flagship global macro strategy in April 2003. It currently manages over $30bn and engages predominantly in discretionary directional and relative value trading in fixed income and FX markets, as well as the recently launched BH Digital, a division within Brevan Howard to manage crypto and digital asset strategies.

The firm employs over 1,000 personnel worldwide, including over 300 investment professionals. This global presence allows Brevan Howard to identify and source attractive investment opportunities and investment management talent wherever they may be. Brevan Howard has won several industry awards for excellence in risk management, operational robustness and investment performance.

The firm’s main hubs are London, Jersey, Geneva, New York, Austin, Hong Kong, Singapore and Abu Dhabi.

As a Senior Software Engineer (Digital), you will be pivotal in building the foundational Digital platform –spanning execution, treasury, risk and market data. You will work closely with cross-functional stakeholders and your code will be an enabler for portfolio managers, risk officers, operations and finance.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work in a small engineering team building critical trading infrastructure and components to support execution, treasury, risk and data analytics.
• Own the relationship with key stakeholders across the firm to inform the requirements, roadmap and priorities.
• Be comfortable owning the system design, architecture and implementation, leaning on industry best practices.

KEY REQUIREMENTS

• 5+ years of working experience with Java, Kotlin.
• 3+ years of working experience in the financial services sector.
• Strong Experience with working in a monolithic/microservices architecture. 
• Experience of working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Computer Science or related field.
• Prior working experience with Postgre SQL is mandatory and other RDBMS are highly desirable.
• Prior experience with cloud technologies GCP and other cloud like AWS or Azure is desirable.
• Experience with integrating with JVM, Cloud services, developing CI/CD pipelines and using Docker is highly desirable.
• Working Experience with Python development is highly desirable.
• Experience with trading infrastructure is desirable.
• Experience with blockchain or node infrastructure is desirable.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or related field.
• Strong English communication skills, both written and spoken, are crucial.