Job Summary:

The Trading and Risk Management System (TRMS) team is responsible for developing, supporting and maintaining our front and back office trading web applications using Python, the proprietary Beacon Dependency Graph and Glint, the Beacon UI framework.

The successful candidate will contribute to the growth of the platform, exercising an eye for detail across all aspects of the development lifecycle while maintaining organization and good code hygiene. This engineer should be able to effectively communicate both with internal teams and with clients.

The successful candidate will help TRMS continue to grow, exercising an eye for detail across all aspects of the development lifecycle while maintaining organization and good code hygiene. This Engineer should be able to effectively communicate both with internal teams and with clients. The successful candidate ensures team processes are understood, followed, and improved. They are responsible for developing and evaluating personnel to ensure efficient operation, continued growth, and positive employee engagement.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team to design, develop, enhance and maintain Trading and Risk Management applications in Beacon’s Python Environment Platform.
• Collaborate with our clients (asset managers, hedge funds, insurance companies, investment banks and commodities trading companies) to adapt and customize our cloud-hosted Trading Risk Management platform
• Work with internal and external clients to gather and analyze requirements and product enhancements
• Participate in code reviews and provide feedback to the team.
• Participate in Agile meetings to contribute with development strategies and product roadmap
• Demonstrated ability to provide constructive feedback to team members
• Communicate with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, identify tasks, provide estimates and meet production deadlines
• Ability to resolve conflict within and across teams and drive consensus to achieve common goals
• Ability to provide technical feedback and guidance on architecture, code review, and best practices

Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience in software development
• 2+ years of experience leading a development team.
• Demonstrated knowledge of computer science fundamentals - Object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms
• Fluent in Python or similar object-oriented language
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Comfortable with fast-paced and strongly collaborative environments