The Software Engineer maintains, builds, and manages new and existing software applications and systems through the entire development lifecycle to support all trading execution and related processes. This person contributes throughout the full lifecycle from requirements through production support while continuously improving system quality and scalability. Success in this role requires someone who is a skilled software developer, able to learn new skills and technologies as needed, and who is well-organized and focused on continual personal, system, and process improvement.

Principal Responsibilities:

Software Development and Implementation

• Build and evolve software across our .NET, C#, Python, ASP.NET, SQL Server, Oracle, and related tech stack, with an emphasis on code quality.

• Design, implement, and perform unit, functional, integration, and system testing. Partner with end users by developing test plans and test cases and supporting the user testing

• Deploy changes to test and production environments using automated CI/CD pipelines.

• Collaborate with external vendors and counterparties to design, develop, integrate, and test systems

Business Analysis

• Work with internal stakeholders to translate and document requirements and develop complete system designs

• Maintain the product backlog and collaborate with the team and stakeholders to prioritize work.

Process and System Improvement

• Identify opportunities for improvements to existing systems and processes.

• Maintain up‑to‑date system and process documentation for developers and stakeholders.

Technical Expertise

• Mentor peers through code reviews, pair programming, and knowledge sharing sessions.

• Own the architecture of the trading‑execution and related systems, acting as a subject‑matter expert who recommends and implements sound design principles.

Production Support

• Provide on‑call support for trading technologies during normal business hours and as needed in off‑hours.

• Participate in ticket triage, root cause analysis, and post mortem documentation.

Decision making authority

• Prioritize the team’s backlog and feature releases to meet critical business deadlines while ensuring alignment with product strategy.

• Collaborate on component architecture and database designs.

• Advise management on long‑term system evolution, recommending architectural trends, technology shifts, and modernization initiatives that support the company’s trading‑execution strategy.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field— or equivalent professional experience and training.

• 3+ years of professional experience developing in C#/.NET (or a comparable object‑oriented language).

• 3+ years of hands‑on experience with SQL Server, Oracle, or another relational database platform.

• Proven ability to apply sound software‑design and system‑architecture principles.

• Working knowledge of Python.

• Hands‑on experience with CI/CD pipelines, source‑control systems, and automated testing frameworks.

• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.

• Excellent written and verbal communication—capable of translating complex technical ideas to non‑technical audiences.

• Self‑motivated, organized, and equally comfortable working independently or within cross‑functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with Apache Airflow and authoring directed acyclic graph (DAG) code

• Knowledge of financial instruments (futures, forwards, equities, fixed‑income, options) and trading‑execution workflows.

• Hands‑on experience with software testing—unit, integration, or end‑to‑end.

• Prior experience managing projects.

• Understanding of financial technologies (FIX, Bloomberg API, etc.)

• Knowledge of Microsoft middleware and security technologies—WCF, MSMQ/Service Bus, Windows Services, AD, and related security patterns.

We recognize that producing the best work and maintaining the best talent includes putting an overall premium on the overall wellness and financial well-being of our employees. We offer a hybrid work environment for all associates, very competitive pay and benefits, parental leave, 80% tuition reimbursement up to $50,000, an annual $2,000 vacation allowance (yes-we pay you to go on vacation!), employer-funded Health Savings Account, a $10,000 family forming HRA benefit, group health, dental and vision benefits, a $1000 fitness allowance, free onsite massages, and a 401(k) matching 100% up to 9% of your salary, plus an additional annual employer discretionary contribution, up to 7.25%.

Regular social gatherings, biweekly catered staff lunches, arcade and video games, ping pong tournaments, and diversity and inclusion events are just a few of our engagement activities to ensure working at Campbell isn’t just challenging and rewarding, but also fun!