Hedge Fund Application Developer

Firm overview

An alternative investment manager specializing in credit strategies to unlock opportunistic market performance and deliver risk-adjusted returns across market cycles. The firm offers a curated lineup of U.S. municipal bond focused investment products that may be tailored to investor priorities and risk parameters.

Role overview

The Application Developer and Operational Support role will develop and maintain in-house software to automate various aspects of fund operations and data analysis. This position will work directly with users across the organization and should be able to navigate unclear and rapidly changing requirements with limited direction. The role combines development work with ongoing operational support and will include frequent ad hoc analysis projects.

Key application areas

• Investment Management and decision support
• Trading
• Operations and trade processing
• Portfolio monitoring and risk measurement
• Accounting and performance measurement
• Business intelligence and management reporting

Technology stack and development environment

The primary application stack is a domain driven service oriented lambda architecture based on Java (RMI/JMS) and Postgres with extensive use of Spring and Hibernate. Front end applications were mainly Java web applications and eclipse RCP fat applications. A variety of small utilities and integrations employ a broad spectrum of technologies, APIs, and services local and remote. Python and Excel are widely used for scripting, ad hoc analysis, and communication.

Capabilities and qualifications

• Comfortable navigating a small, dynamic environment with informal direction
• Strong analytic, quantitative, and data engineering capabilities
• Familiarity with common data integration patterns and data formats
• Exposure to common software design patterns
• Hedge fund experience and operational knowledge preferred
• Fixed income and municipal bond knowledge preferred
• SQL and relational databases
• Java
• Python
• Excel
• Finance
• Trading
• Hedge funds
• Data science

Job details

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $80,000.00 - $150,000.00 per year

Benefits

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Health insurance

Application questions

• Would you be comfortable in a small-team environment that requires wearing many hats, including occasional IT/Help desk, trade operations, vendor management, accounting, and other support responsibilities as needed?
• Will you now or will you in the future require employment visa sponsorship?

Location and work arrangement

Ability to Commute: Stamford, CT 06901 (Required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Stamford, CT 06901