Software Engineer – Build, Test & Deploy | Tech-Driven NYC Fund

Most engineers maintain someone else’s system. This role is about building your own. A fully systematic hedge fund is looking for a strong software engineer to join their team. Technology is at the heart of the business, and they want someone who can look across the firm, find the processes that still run on manual work, and write the software that replaces them. You will own your projects end to end. This is a role for someone who doesn’t need to be told what to build. You’ll scope the problem with stakeholders, design the solution, write the code, ship it and keep it running. That covers internal applications, API integrations, data workflows and bringing AI tooling into production where it makes a real difference. The team is highly collaborative. If you want a narrow, siloed role, this isn’t the right fit. You’ll work with Investment, Technology and Operations, and over time there’s room to move into other areas of the business. You also get 20% of your time to work on any project across the firm. To be successful, you’ll need: Strong engineering fundamentals: clean code and solid object-oriented design Deep expertise in one object-oriented language (they don’t mind which, as long as you’re an expert in it)A track record of turning messy, ambiguous problems into reliable software Financial services experience is a plus, not a requirement A note on interviews: the team is fully embracing AI in their day-to-day work, but the interview process is AI-free. It comes down to one thing: can you write clean code on your own?