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Software Engineer

J Harlan Group, LLC

Software Engineer

San Francisco, CA
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Software Engineer

    San Francisco – Global Investment Manager

    J Harlan Group is currently conducting a search for a talented Software Engineer to join the Credit Technology team in the San Francisco Office of a prominent Global Investment Manager.

    The ideal candidate will have excellent technical skills, a passion for understanding the business, and a track record as a talented application developer working on mission critical applications. You will examine complex business and technology problems, and work closely with the business, your team and other technologists within the firm to ensure the best systems outcome.While an understanding of credit, fixed income or some other finance related domain is preferred, they will teach you the business if you are willing to learn, but you need to be a creative problem solver and a cultural fit. This is a unique opportunity to bring technical innovation to an interesting and fast paced business in which the client is an industry leader. You will work in a fast-paced environment with some of the best people in the industry.

    Principal Responsibilities

    • Support Traders, Portfolio Managers and Analysts by creating, extending and maintaining our front office in-house, as well as customized vendor applications, for trading, investing and analytics
    • Help develop front office solutions for trade order management, Portfolio and CLO compliance, allocation waterfalls, and debt/borrowing base compliance
    • Enhance our cash management algorithm for sizing CLOs and other credit strategies
    • Work on a continual stream of small enhancements to improve the functionality of our order management/trading platform
    • Develop reports and analytic tools to assist the desk in understanding holdings, cash, NAV & positions
    • Use market data and internal data marts to create innovative tools to screen assets for portfolio sizing and compliance
    • Extend and customize our order management system (Black Mountain/Everest) using SQL
    • Cover a range of functional disciplines including portfolio management & trading, investment monitoring & MIS tools, fund accounting, cash & position reconciliation, pre/post trade compliance
    • Drive projects successfully to completion, on-time, with a focus on quality and proper testing
    • Analyze complex business problems and translate them into technical solutions
    • Be a trusted advisor to the Front Office, Operations and Finance teams and make recommendations on how technology can improve processes and provide better information for decision making
    • Leverage data to build tools to help with Front office analysis and automation of operational processes
    • Role has the opportunity to grow other technologies and applications

    The ideal candidate would have a background:

    • 2-5 years overall experience, preferably in financial technology (buy side, investment bank, etc…)
    • 2-5 years of application development or programming experience
    • Must be skilled with SQL – you will be writing and troubleshooting complex SQL code on daily basis, and working heavily with relational databases
    • Experience supporting mission critical systems such as trading, pricing, risk, order management, etc is a plus as well as DevOps or automated testing experience a plus
    • Excellent communication skills

    Education:

    • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field

      Successful candidates are:

    • Analytic and relentless in pursuit of the right answer
    • Strong communicators who excel at rapid synthesis
    • Able to demonstrate sound business judgment
    • Able to digest complexity while maintaining an understanding of the “big picture” of business needs
    • Team players who are energized by a collaborative enterprise

    An individual who loves solving deep and complex technical and business problems and wants to have an outsized impact with the services/ products they deliver. An individual with a passion for windows technologies, high level of intellectual curiosity, a commitment to excellence and an unparalleled drive to deliver world-class services.

    About the Client:

    Our client is a leading global investment firm that manages multiple alternative asset classes, including credit, private equity, energy, infrastructure and real estate, and, through its strategic manager partnerships, hedge funds. The firm aims to generate attractive investment returns by following a patient and disciplined investment approach, employing world-class people, and driving growth and value creation with their portfolio companies. They invest their own capital alongside its partners' capital and provides financing solutions and investment opportunities through its capital markets business.

    The talent and dedication of their people is critical to their success. They offer an opportunity for developing one’s professional career while working with individuals trained in a variety of disciplines in a collegial and dynamic environment. They offer a broad range of competitive benefits on a global basis.

    They seek candidates who are high-energy self-starters who want to join an investment management firm on the leading edge of the global markets. The management team needs individuals of the highest professional caliber who are leaders, problem solvers, analytic, detail-oriented, and entrepreneurial. Everyone at the firm works side-by-side with the firm’s senior management in a highly collaborative and charged environment.

    Successful candidates are:

    • Analytic and relentless in pursuit of the right answer
    • Strong communicators who excel at rapid synthesis
    • Able to demonstrate sound business judgment
    • Able to digest complexity while maintaining an understanding of the “big picture” of business needs
    • Team players who are energized by a collaborative enterprise

    The firm’s employees maintain the highest professional and ethical standards. The firm has earned a reputation for honesty, fair dealing, and transparency in a competitive industry. They believe that these standards are the foundation for superior investment performance and are critical to delivering performance to clients