# Senior Software Engineer - Risk Technology

**Company**: FIC & Risk Technology
**Location**: New York, New York
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $175,000 to $250,000
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer - Risk Technology to join our team. As a builder and owner, you will be responsible for designing, delivering, and maintaining scalable technology and advanced proprietary systems that power our active, multi-manager platform.

You will take responsibility for the design, delivery, and reliability of the systems you lead , from requirements and design through implementation, deployment, and production support. You will guide the day-to-day work of a team of around three engineers; review code and designs, help teammates ramp up on the codebase and domain, and foster a culture of ownership and quality.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Designing and building well-structured, scalable, low-latency services

- Partnering with risk managers, quants, and other technologists across New York, London, Singapore, and Bengaluru to understand requirements, agree priorities, and deliver solutions that matter to the business

- Keeping the team focused and accountable, communicating clearly and concisely to technical and business audiences, and seeing work through to completion

- Challenging the status quo, proposing better approaches, and adopting AI-assisted development and modern tooling to raise the quality and pace of delivery

- Building robust, testable, well-observed Java services and streaming components; monitoring, troubleshooting, and resolving production issues to protect data integrity and performance

To be successful in this role, you will need:

- 6+ years of professional software development experience, with strong, recent, hands-on expertise in Java (Core Java, collections, concurrency, JVM fundamentals; Java 17+)

- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related quantitative discipline

- Experience leading or mentoring engineers, with a genuine appetite to grow into a people-leadership role, and a track record of owning features or components end to end, from design through production

- Solid understanding of object-oriented design, design patterns, and multithreaded/distributed systems; experience building scalable, reliable services, with exposure to event-streaming pipelines (e.g., Kafka) valued

- Good stakeholder and communication skills, with the confidence to engage directly with a demanding front-office audience

- Relational SQL database development experience (e.g., Postgres, SQL Server), comfort on the Unix/Linux command line, and familiarity with CI/CD (Jenkins), Git, and modern DevOps practices

- An entrepreneurial, can-do mindset , comfortable with ambiguity, biased toward action, and eager to invent and improve

The estimated base salary range for this position is $175,000 to $250,000.

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- object-oriented design
- design patterns
- multithreaded/distributed systems
- event-streaming pipelines
- Kafka
- Relational SQL database development
- Postgres
- SQL Server
- Unix/Linux command line
- CI/CD
- Jenkins
- Git
- DevOps practices

### Nice to have
- front-end experience (TypeScript/JavaScript, Angular)
- understanding of financial instruments and risk concepts (VaR, stress, sensitivities)
- exposure to equities, credit, rates, or derivatives
- cloud experience (AWS: EC2, S3, Aurora, Redshift, etc.)
- hands-on use of AI-assisted development tools

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