Sr. Software Development Engineer - Energy & Commodities

Location: New York, United States; hybrid work with four days per week in the office. Work from home Fridays; work from anywhere for up to three weeks per year.

Salary: $156,400–$210,841 per year.

Company

hirify.global provides a SaaS platform for investment accounting, risk, and performance for insurance companies, hedge funds, asset managers, and institutional investors.

What you will do

• Design, build, deploy, and maintain features for trade capture, trade lifecycle, position management, and risk workflows covering OTC and exchange-traded, financial and physical commodities.
• Extend platform frameworks for pricing libraries, deal models, market data and curve management, risk batch execution, cashflow generation, and reporting.
• Translate business, functional, and client requirements into reliable features with Product Managers and Quantitative Developers.
• Lead feature and architecture discussions, participate in design and code reviews, and mentor less experienced engineers.
• Build and maintain containerized services and deployment pipelines; improve workload observability and performance.
• Write tested code, troubleshoot production incidents, document solutions, and apply AI development and operations practices.

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional software development experience, including strong production experience with Python.
• Experience in energy and commodities technology, including ETRM/CTRM products, trading and risk systems at an energy trading firm, utility, or bank commodity desk, or front-office development supporting commodity trading.
• Working knowledge of market conventions, deal structures, and derivative trade lifecycle events.
• Ability to work in more than one programming language and with more than one DBMS.
• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience building and deploying software on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Strong design skills and ability to lead feature-level design within a team.
• Ability to understand unfamiliar codebases and debug production systems.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills, including explaining technical topics to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Development experience on a graph-based pricing and risk platform such as Beacon, Quartz, Athena, or SecDB.
• Production experience with multiple languages and DBMSes.
• Experience building real-time trading and risk systems.
• Financial engineering knowledge and experience.
• Experience with event-driven architectures and messaging systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Business-casual atmosphere and flexible working environment.
• Team-focused culture promoting innovation and ownership, with career development pathways.
• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance; maternity and paternity leave.
• Personal Time Off, Volunteer Time Off, and medical leave.
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match and short- and long-term disability insurance.
• Work from home Fridays and work from anywhere for three weeks per year.