Principal Software Engineer

Schonfeld is seeking a highly qualified and talented technologist to join its Reference Data Technology team. The Reference Data Management team at Schonfeld focuses on building and supporting centralized golden source of reference and master data. The key areas supported surround Securities, Financial Calendars and Investment Professional related data domains such as Portfolio’s, Broker Accounts and Books. The team also supports a centralized framework used to standardize how the firm masters and distributes data. These core sources of data support many aspects of the business ranging from Trade Execution, Accounting, Compliance, Treasury, Risk and Operations.

Requirements

• At minimum, seven years of experience in financial services/hedge funds.
• At minimum, three years of experience supporting listed and OTC instruments typical in multi-strategy fund.
• At minimum, seven years of OO development experience (Java highly preferred)
• Expertise with design and architecture (stateful reactive microservices experience preferred)
• Practical experience with using generative AI to increase efficiency in the delivery of technology solutions and in building MCP servers, agentic workflows and LLM orchestration.
• Experience leading strategic technical initiatives from start to finish and able to discuss the pros and cons of chosen architectural elements.
• Experience with relational and in-memory databases (Postgres / SingleStore preferred)
• Experience with messaging systems (Kafka preferred)
• Excellent communication and advocacy skills, both written and verbal
• Experience mentoring software engineers
• Strong ownership experience and a track record of delivering results

Apply on Schonfeld's site