Balyasny Asset Management L.P.

Senior Software Engineer - Equity Technology

Balyasny Asset Management L.P.$130K — $180K *
Finance & Insurance
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Humble team-player with a collaborative mindset
  • Degree in Computer Science or a closely related field
  • 8+ years of professional software development experience
  • Strong preference for candidates with finance experience, especially in equities
  • Proficient in C# or Java as a primary object-oriented programming language
  • Familiarity with Python, AWS, MSSQL, Snowflake, and ClickHouse

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with portfolio managers, quantitative researchers, and risk teams to develop software solutions
  • Understand and deliver on business requirements in a fast-paced team environment
  • Balance feasibility, stability, scalability, and time-to-market in solutions delivery
  • Design, develop, test, and deploy high-performance risk analytics services and applications
  • Own the design and implementation of equity factor-risk analytics features
  • Develop frameworks for validation, reconciliation, and monitoring of risk calculations
  • Lead technical discussions, mentor engineers, and manage complex projects from concept to production

Benefits

  • Dynamic work environment in a growing team
  • Opportunity to collaborate with leading finance and technology professionals
  • Access to cutting-edge AI-assisted development tools
  • Focus on developing scalable and efficient software solutions
  • Career growth potential through mentorship and project leadership opportunities
Full Job Description
The Equity Technology team at BAM is responsible for building and supporting a world-class suite of tools for our flagship Fundamental Equities business. The ideal candidate has a passion for solving business problems with technology, is obsessed with developing high-performance software that provides incredible user experiences and is eager to learn about the intersection of finance and technology. This growing suite of tools spans across the investment lifecycle, including research, idea generation, portfolio construction, quantitative research, trading, and compliance.

Role Overview:
  • Work closely with portfolio managers, quantitative researchers, risk teams, and technology teams to deliver cutting-edge innovative software solutions that are critical to the success of portfolio manager teams
  • Collaborate in a fast-paced team environment to understand, engineer, and deliver on business requirements
  • Strike a balance along the dimensions of feasibility, stability, scalability, and time-to-market when delivering solutions
  • Design, develop, test, and deploy high-performance risk analytics services and user-facing applications, primarily using C#/.NET, Python, gRPC, and React
  • Own the engineering design and implementation of features for equity factor-risk analytics services, with a focus on scalability and performance
  • Develop robust validation, reconciliation, and monitoring frameworks to ensure risk calculations are accurate, explainable, and consistent across datasets and downstream consumers
  • Design and optimize .NET/C# services for efficiency and scale, with attention to memory usage, parallel processing, profiling, and service architecture
  • Lead technical design discussions, mentor other engineers, and drive delivery of complex projects from requirements through release and subsequent production support
  • Make pragmatic architecture decisions that balance analytical accuracy, system complexity, operational resilience, and time-to-market
  • Leverage the latest AI-assisted development tooling to improve engineering productivity, while maintaining a strong focus on well-designed, well-architected, maintainable, and clear code
  • Leverage a variety of data management and analytics platforms, including Snowflake and ClickHouse

Qualifications
  • Humble team-player who wants to win
  • Degree in Computer Science or closely related field
  • 8+ years of professional software development experience.
  • Experience with finance, especially equities, strongly preferred
  • Deep expertise in an object-oriented programming language - one must be C# or Java
  • Experience with Python, AWS, MSSQL, Snowflake, ClickHouse

About Balyasny Asset Management L.P.

Balyasny Asset Management L.P. is a global investment firm that manages hedge funds and private investment funds. The company was founded in 2001 by Dmitry Balyasny and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, with additional offices in New York, London, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Balyasny Asset Management L.P. employs a multi-strategy approach to investing and focuses on generating alpha through a combination of fundamental analysis and quantitative research. The company has a strong track record of performance and has received numerous awards for its investment strategies.
Learn more about Balyasny Asset Management L.P.
Size
1,000 employees
Industry
Net Income
$200 million
Founded
2001
5 Year Trend
+20%
Revenue
$1 billion

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