Engineer, Risk Technology

Balyasny Asset Management

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On-site
Location
New York, NYLondon, United Kingdom
Salary
$175,000–$225,000 / yr
Posted
103 days ago
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About Balyasny Asset Management

Balyasny Asset Management (BAM) is a global multi-manager hedge fund offering diversified investment strategies across equities, macro, commodities, and systematic trading.

Balyasny Asset Management currently has 53 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $175,000–$250,000 across 37 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Engineer, Risk Technology

The Engineer, Risk Technology joins the Risk Technology team to build and support the Risk Research platform for Risk Management and Risk Research teams. This role involves developing and maintaining libraries and analytical functions to create new research for Risk Managers, Business Management, Portfolio Managers, and Senior Firm Management. The engineer will work directly with clients to gather requirements, build technology to expand financial product and market coverage, and automate risk management processes. Key responsibilities include designing and developing technology solutions for next-generation risk analytics systems and modeling new asset classes. Required skills include server-side Python with object-oriented programming, Pandas, Numpy, threading, multiprocessing, and asynchronous programming. Candidates must also be proficient in pytest, unittest, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS to build high-performance, horizontally scalable, big data, and distributed computing systems.

What does a Engineer earn in New York?

Median $200000 from 36 postings across 15 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design and develop technology solutions to expand financial product and market coverage.
  • Build and maintain libraries and analytical functions for the Risk Research platform.
  • Gather requirements directly from clients to build custom technology solutions.
  • Automate and continuously improve internal risk management processes.
  • Develop and deploy scalable, high-performance, and distributed computing systems.
  • Containerize applications using Docker and deploy them on Kubernetes and AWS.
  • Model new asset classes to support business expansion and risk analytics.
  • Perform testing and debugging using frameworks like pytest or unittest.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's or advanced degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technology field.
  • 4+ years of software development experience working on large-scale, high-performance, horizontally scalable, big data, distributed computing systems.
  • Expertise in server-side Python with strong object-oriented programming skills.
  • Proficiency in Python's standard library and key third-party modules such as Pandas and Numpy.
  • Knowledge of advanced Python features including threading, multiprocessing, and asynchronous programming.
  • Skill in testing and debugging using frameworks like pytest or unittest.
  • Proficiency in containerizing applications using Docker and deploying them on Kubernetes and AWS.
  • Experience in designing scalable systems and optimizing performance.

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