Staff Engineer

A leading global investment firm that offers alternative asset management as well as capital markets and insurance solutions. The aim to generate attractive investment returns by following a patient and disciplined investment approach, employing world-class people, and supporting growth in its portfolio companies and communities

Responsibilities

• Lead Architecture and Strategy: Define and evolve the architecture for complex, cloud-native systems that support our investment operations.
• Shape Engineering Practices: Establish standards for design, testing, observability, and CI/CD across multiple teams.
• Drive Innovation: Identify and introduce new tools, frameworks, and AI-driven approaches that improve developer efficiency and data insights, collaborating closely with business & product stakeholders.
• Mentor and Grow Talent: Coach engineers at all levels, cultivating technical depth, ownership, and continuous improvement.
• Deliver Measurable Impact: Align technology initiatives to business objectives, using OKRs to measure progress and outcomes.
• Champion Reliability and Security: Ensure systems are built for resilience, performance, and compliance, and ensure they are well supported.
• Influence Talent Decisions: Play a key role in recruiting and retaining top engineering talent through technical leadership and cultural alignment.

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, exhibiting technical leadership across complex, distributed systems.
• Proven success designing and scaling cloud-based platforms (AWS experience strongly preferred).
• Expertise in one or more object oriented languages (Python, Java, C++, etc) and strong familiarity with modern front-end frameworks such as React.
• Solid understanding of database technologies (SQL & NoSQL), with experience in optimizing data models, caching, and performance.
• Proficient in leveraging AI tools within the developer workflow to enhance productivity and quality.
• Effective communicator who can connect technical vision to business goals.
• Experienced mentor who elevates the skills and judgment of others.
• Curiosity and enthusiasm for finance and investment technology.
• Strategic thinker who values simplicity, automation, and measurable results.
• Proven record of ownership, able to deliver in a fast-paced, dynamic business environment, with exceptional attention to detail.