Senior Software Engineer - Risk
About this role
This role is for one of our clients
Industry: Financial Services
Company Name: FalconX
Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
Min Experience: 4+ years
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
JobType: full-time
Job Description & Requirements:
Impact
- Architect and build next-generation risk solutions for FalconX and its clients.
- Evolve FalconX’s risk technology to be best-in-class, working on cutting-edge technology with the right balance of speed, accuracy, and reliability.
Responsibilities
- Develop, maintain, and enhance proprietary risk management tools, infrastructure, risk data, and processes.
- Architect and build scalable, robust, performant risk solutions for institutional customers and internal teams.
- Work closely with multiple members of the risk team to develop, maintain, and improve the risk management stack.
- Coach and mentor teammates on supporting and maintaining risk solutions.
Requirements
- Degree in Computer Science, EE, Financial Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or equivalent fields.
- At least 4 years of professional experience in a quant risk role.
- Experience in risk management in a trading environment (hedge fund or bank).
- Knowledge of a range of financial products and experience with a variety of derivatives asset classes.
- Extensive experience with software engineering, object-oriented coding design, and complex, distributed architectures.
- Comfortable working with Linux/AWS environments and Python programming.
- Proactive with a strong sense of ownership and excellent communication skills.
Must-Have Skills
- Quantitative Risk / Quant Risk
- Risk Management
- Python
- Software Engineering
Good-to-Have Skills
- Trading / Trading Systems
- Derivatives
- Distributed Systems
- AWS
- Linux
Company at a glance
Weekday is building the next frontier in hiring by treating recommendations and referrals as the best way to find engineers. It scales this approach by building a community of scouts who are top software engineers and helps them find the best-suited opportunities in top startups. The company operates on a technology stack that includes AWS Aurora, React JS, Node JS, Express, Elastic Search, Elastic Beanstalk, MySQL, and CodePipeline. Weekday's scouts are themselves top software engineers, reinforcing the strength of its network.
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