Senior Engineer - Accounting Technology

C# Engineer

Balyasny Asset Management (BAM) is a global, multi-strategy investment firm with over $27 billion in assets under management. We are a diversified business, with global breadth and depth. Our firm has a clear mission:
To consistently deliver uncorrelated returns in all market environments. Today, BAM employs more than 160 portfolio managers and 1,200 investment professionals across 19 offices in the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. We are active across six investing strategies:
Equities Long/Short, Equities Arbitrage, Macro, Commodities, Systematic, and Growth Equity. We also have a dedicated private investment team, BAM Elevate, and a standalone equities unit, Corbets Capital.

As a C# Engineer on our Account Technology team, you will be responsible for playing a key role in designing, testing, deploying, and maintaining the firm's critical back office systems. This is an exciting opportunity to work with cutting-edge .NET technologies, focusing on distributed systems, high-volume processing, and AWS serverless technologies.

What You'll Do

• Innovate and Enhance:
  Design and improve multithreaded, 3-tier back-office systems.
• Decision Making:
  Make independent decisions while effectively mitigating risks.
• Ownership Mentality:
  Take full ownership of all aspects of our trade accounting systems.
• Fast-Paced Environment:
  Thrive in a fast-paced setting, balancing second-line support with strategic development responsibilities.
• Global
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Work closely with engineers in the UK, US, and Hong Kong to deliver robust solutions.

What We're Looking For

• Experience:
  
  7+ years of hands-on experience in a formal enterprise-level development environment, particularly with C#.
• Technical
  
  Skills:
• Strong expertise in C#,.NET Core, multi-threaded programming, and object-oriented design.
• Proven experience in building connected, service-oriented applications.
• Familiarity with enterprise messaging systems (Kafka/Solace).
• Experience with Database Systems (Microsoft SQL/Postgres/Snowflake).
• Experience with Cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, etc).
• Experience with distributed caching like Redis.
• Experience with Event Driven architecture.
• Communication:
  Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain complex ideas clearly to various audiences.
• Dev Ops Knowledge:
  Experience with JIRA, Git, Jenkins, and Octopus Deploy.

Key Attributes We Are Looking For

• Agile Development:
  Familiarity with Agile software development concepts.
• Test-Driven Development:
  Experience with behavior and test-driven development.
• Financial Markets:
  Familiarity with different product types across Equity, Fixed Income, and Commodity markets.
• Post-Trade Lifecycle:
  Insight into the post-trade lifecycle processes.

Why Join Us?

• Impactful Work:
  Contribute to critical systems that drive our trade reporting processes.
• Professional Growth:
  Gain exposure to the business side of trading operations and post-trade processing.
• Collaborative Environment:
  Work closely with a talented team in a supportive and innovative environment.
• Global Network:
  Collaborate with engineers globally.