Verition Fund Management LLC (“Verition”) is a multi-strategy, multi-manager hedge fund founded in 2008. Verition focuses on global investment strategies including Global Credit, Global Convertible, Volatility & Capital Structure Arbitrage, Event-Driven Investing, Equity Long/Short & Capital Markets Trading, and Global Quantitative Trading.
We are seeking a talented Software Engineer to join our growing Treasury Technology team.
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain applications and tools to support the trade allocation process
- Ensure systems handle high volumes of trade data efficiently and accurately
- Implement trade allocation rules and workflows based on client and regulatory requirements
- Design systems for real-time or near real-time trade processing to ensure timely allocations and confirmations
- Provide technical support for production trade allocation systems, addressing issues in real-time
- Debug, troubleshoot, and resolve performance bottlenecks or system failures.
- Participate in sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives
- Document trade allocation processes and troubleshoot logs for audit purposes
- Implement best practices for database queries and application architecture
- Develop and execute unit tests, integration tests, and automated test scripts
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer science, Software Engineering, Finance, or a related field
- Strong programming experience in Python (4–6 year) and Java (3+ years)
- Strong experience with SQL and database systems like Oracle, PostgreSQL
- Familiarity with database optimization and data modeling
- Experience with real-time and batch data processing and ability to design systems for low-latency, high-throughput trading environments
- Experience with Linux scripting language and command-line tools
- Familiarity with Order Management Systems (OMS) and Execution Management Systems (EMS)
- Knowledge of trading workflows (e.g., equities, fixed income, derivatives) and understanding of post-trade processes
- Analytical and troubleshooting skills for debugging and optimizing trade allocation systems
- Prior work experience in a financial institution, hedge fund, or trading firm is preferred