Full Stack Developer, Front Office Trading Technology

A small, successful hedge fund client of ours is seeking a Full Stack Developer to join its growing Front Office Engineering team.

This is a newly created role supporting a major modernization initiative focused on building next-generation trading, portfolio management, and analytics applications. The developer will work directly with portfolio managers, traders, analysts, and other front-office users, so prior experience building technology within a financial markets environment is essential.

This is a full-stack position with a strong focus on modernizing the frontend and user experience. We are looking for someone who brings strong C#, .NET, SQL, Python, and React development experience and understands how technology is used by investment professionals.

Compensation & Work Authorization

• Base salary: $140,000 to $180,000, plus bonus
• The client is unable to provide visa sponsorship at this time
• Candidates must be U.S. Citizens or Green Card holders

Required Experience

Candidates must have:

• 5+ years of professional software development experience
• Strong hands-on development experience with C# and .NET
• Strong SQL skills and experience working with relational databases
• Professional development experience with Python
• Strong experience with React and modern web application development
• Experience with TypeScript, REST APIs, and full-stack application architecture
• Professional experience within financial services
• Preference for candidates coming from a:
  • Hedge fund
  • Asset management or investment management firm
  • Bank
  • Private equity firm
  • Other sophisticated financial markets environment
• Direct front-office technology experience, working with or supporting:
  • Portfolio managers
  • Traders
  • Investment professionals
  • Research analysts
  • Risk professionals
• Experience developing financial applications such as:
  • Trading platforms
  • Order Management Systems (OMS)
  • Portfolio Management Systems (PMS)
  • Risk and analytics platforms
  • Investment management applications
• Experience building data-rich, workflow-driven applications where performance, usability, and responsiveness are important
• Strong communication skills with the ability to work directly with both technical teams and front-office business stakeholders

Responsibilities

Front Office Application Development

• Design and develop modern applications used by portfolio managers, traders, and other investment professionals
• Build and enhance React-based frontends for trading, portfolio management, and analytics applications
• Develop backend applications and services using C#/.NET
• Use Python to support application development, analytics, data processing, and financial workflows
• Design and optimize SQL queries and database-driven functionality
• Develop and integrate RESTful APIs and backend services
• Translate complex trading and investment workflows into intuitive, user-friendly applications
• Build reusable frontend components and frameworks that can support future applications
• Participate in application architecture, technical design, and platform modernization

Front Office Partnership

• Work directly with portfolio managers, traders, analysts, and technology leadership
• Understand how front-office users interact with trading and portfolio management systems
• Gather requirements directly from business users and translate them into practical technology solutions
• Respond to evolving business requirements in a fast-moving investment environment
• Support production applications used by front-office teams

Preferred Experience

• Prior experience working directly for a hedge fund or asset manager
• Experience building or modernizing applications used for trading, portfolio management, investment analytics, or risk
• Experience developing scalable or low-latency financial applications
• Experience with Azure or AWS
• Experience with caching technologies such as Redis
• Experience with Docker and containerized development
• Experience with CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or similar technologies
• Strong UX/UI instincts, particularly for complex, data-intensive financial applications

What Makes This Opportunity Interesting

• Work directly with portfolio managers and traders, not several layers removed from the business
• Play a meaningful role in a major modernization of the firm's front-office technology platform
• Combination of greenfield development and modernization
• Opportunity to influence application architecture, frontend design, and the overall user experience
• Small environment where developers can have significant ownership and visibility
• Long-term initiative extending through the next year and beyond