Credit Lead Developer, Investment Engineering (Fullstack)

Location: New York, New York; work from the New York office

Salary: $190,000–$250,000 base salary per year, plus eligibility for a discretionary annual bonus

Company

Alternative asset management firm focused on private equity, credit, real assets, retirement services, and capital solutions.

What you will do

• Lead the full software development lifecycle, including design, coding, implementation, and architecture.
• Build scalable portfolio management and trading solutions for the Credit Trading Desk.
• Provide technical leadership across architecture, development, testing, observability, and production support.
• Design and deliver reliable trading systems supporting market data ingestion, order management, execution, and post-trade analytics.
• Collaborate with investment professionals, business partners, and senior stakeholders to align technical solutions with evolving requirements.
• Mentor engineers, lead design discussions and code reviews, and establish engineering best practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years in trading, market technology, or other high-performance, data-intensive environments.
• Experience designing, developing, and deploying production-grade trading systems focused on reliability, fault tolerance, and maintainability.
• Strong knowledge of transaction cost analysis, P&L attribution, risk factor modeling, order routing, market structure, liquidity dynamics, and exchange protocols.
• Hands-on experience with event-driven architecture, event sourcing, microservices, distributed systems, and streaming platforms such as Aeron, Kafka, or Pulsar.
• Experience with performance optimization, asynchronous processing, caching, data pipeline tuning, and architectural trade-offs involving latency, throughput, and complexity.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, engineering-led environment embedded with portfolio managers and traders.
• Opportunities to influence architecture, mentor colleagues, and contribute to cross-functional design decisions.
• Benefits programs designed to provide coverage for employees and their families.
• Eligibility for a discretionary annual bonus based on individual, team, and firm performance.