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Balyasny Asset Management

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Work type
On-site
Location
Chicago, ILNew York, NY
Salary
$200,000–$275,000 / yr
Posted
3 days ago
Nearby
99+ roles within 25 mi

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This role $238k
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This role pays more than 92% of similar roles. Most pay $140,651–$210,025 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $238k versus about $175k for comparable roles.

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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 47 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $175,000–$242,500 across 26 roles with salary data.

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The Senior Engineer position at Balyasny’s Execution Technology team in New York involves designing and building high-performance trading algorithms and distributed system components to support large-scale transaction flows with microsecond latency. This hands-on technical leader will drive strategic engineering initiatives from concept through delivery, providing mentorship and elevating the team's technical capabilities. Key responsibilities include optimizing systems for efficiency, collaborating closely with traders and portfolio managers, and leveraging Java and C# in a multithreaded environment to ensure high fault tolerance and scalability. Ideal candidates have 10–15+ years of experience building financial or trading systems, extensive knowledge of distributed systems, and a proven track record of leading complex projects while fostering a culture of rigorous design reviews and continuous improvement.

Skills

Java C# Multithreaded Programming Distributed Systems Lock-free Algorithms CI/CD Mentorship Code Reviews Optimization Latency Reduction Scalability Improvements System Stability Collaboration AI-Assisted Development Tools Microservices Kubernetes AWS PostgreSQL Redis Python Go

What you'll do

  • Design and build high-performance trading algorithms and distributed system components.
  • Lead strategic engineering initiatives from concept through post-production support.
  • Take ownership of complex technical projects, coordinating with stakeholders for success.
  • Mentor engineers to enhance their skills and raise overall team capability.
  • Optimize systems for efficiency, scalability, latency, and stability continuously.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of experience building financial or trading systems in Java
  • Extensive experience with multithreaded programming, including lock-free algorithms
  • Proven track record of leading complex technical projects to completion
  • Strong mentorship skills and ability to elevate team technical capability
  • Expertise in designing and developing distributed systems
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills for cross-stakeholder collaboration
  • Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools for planning, code generation, and testing

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