Equity Derivatives Pricing Platform Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Equity Derivatives Pricing Platform Engineer (Principal Software Engineering at VP level)

• Focus: Build and evolve a global platform for equity derivatives pricing and trading workflows

Description

You will design, implement, test, and release platform features and fixes for equity derivatives pricing used by front-office workflows (quote, RFQ, booking, and product creation). You’ll partner with Sales and Trading and quantitative model owners to translate business needs into prioritized engineering work and investigate unexpected pricing outcomes. The role emphasizes production ownership, reliability, and engineering quality through testing, automation, and observability.

Responsibilities

• Build and deliver platform capabilities end-to-end (design, implement, test, release)

• Collaborate with desks to clarify requirements, investigate issues, and prioritize engineering work

• Integrate and troubleshoot pricing and model components with quantitative model owners

• Maintain and improve quote/RFQ/booking integrations and downstream systems

• Establish regression testing for pricing and numerical results; expand automated tests

• Introduce practical quality controls (formatting, linting, typing, automated tests, coverage)

• Own production health during New York hours: monitor, investigate, deploy, rollback, troubleshoot across services/data/config

• Automate recurring operational work using diagnostics, monitoring, and automation

• Support adoption by moving suitable spreadsheet-based workflows to the shared platform and validating outcomes

• Coordinate across regions (London and Asia) with clear documentation and handoffs

• Use modern engineering tools responsibly, including automation and AI-assisted development

Requirements

• Senior, hands-on software engineering experience building and operating production applications (preferably financial services)

• Strong backend development skills in Python, Java, or a comparable language

• Ability to contribute to and learn the existing platform stack

• Experience across the full development lifecycle including observability and production support

• Working knowledge of equity derivatives or structured products and the associated pricing/trading workflows

• Proven ability to work with business/trading/sales/quantitative stakeholders to clarify needs and deliver solutions

• Sound testing and troubleshooting judgment for numerical results and complex integrated systems

• Experience diagnosing production issues across applications, services, data, configuration, and infrastructure

• Practical experience with AI-assisted engineering tools or strong interest in applying them responsibly

• Ability to work independently on ambiguous problems and drive issues to closure

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Benefits

• Competitive base pay (expected $155,000–$215,000 at commencement), plus potential incentive and other benefits

• Comprehensive employee benefits and perks and support for employees and their families

• Opportunity to collaborate with and learn from top engineering and financial professionals