Software Engineer, Backend Developer

Location: New York - on-site - full time

Salary range: $350,000 - $850,000 total comp

Visa sponsorship: Generally available to those already living within the USA

We're pleased to be working on behalf of one of the world's leading hedge funds - home to some of the most sophisticated engineering teams and trading systems in the industry. They're looking for exceptional Software Engineers to join their expanding New York office.

As part of the firm's central engineering group, you'll design, build and optimise high-performance infrastructure and distributed systems that underpin global trading operations. You'll work on complex technical challenges where improvements in performance, scalability, and reliability have a direct impact on the business.

This team values candidates from high-performance engineering environments, whether they be from innovative technology or investment companies; it's an opportunity to work within a culture that highly values autonomy, technical excellence and ownership, and amongst an immensely talented team.

What we're looking for:

• Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Mathematics, or another highly quantitative discipline with a strong academic record.
• 3-7 years' commercial software engineering experience, with strong proficiency in Python and/or C++, building high-performance, low-latency or performance‑critical systems.
• Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals including algorithms, data structures, concurrency, and system performance.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across engineering and business teams.
• A demonstrated track record of progression, continuous learning and increasing levels of technical responsibility.
• Exceptional problem‑solving ability and the confidence to work independently in a fast‑paced, technically demanding environment.

Particularly valuable experience:

• Experience working in high‑growth, high‑performance startup environments.
• Founding Engineer or technical Co‑Founder experience, or being an early engineering hire responsible for building products from the ground up.
• Demonstrated ownership through 0-1 product development, platform builds or leading the delivery of complex engineering initiatives.
• Experience optimising systems for performance, scalability or latency-sensitive workloads.