Lead Engineer, Trade Processing Technology

Balyasny Asset Management

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Warsaw, Poland
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52 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.

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TL;DR · Lead Engineer, Trade Processing Technology

As a Lead Engineer, Trade Processing Technology on the Warsaw Trade Processing team, you will serve as a senior technical owner for platforms powering the firm's post-trade lifecycle. You will spend at least half of your time hands-on designing and writing production code while providing technical leadership and light people management to a small team. Your core responsibilities include architecting high-throughput, distributed systems for trade capture, validation, enrichment, allocation, confirmation, settlement, reconciliation, and exception management across multiple asset classes. You will lead the migration of the stack from C# to Rust and integrate AI-assisted development tools into the workflow. Required skills include C#/.NET, service-oriented architecture, high-performance programming, and experience with modern DevOps tools like JIRA, Git, Jenkins, and Octopus Deploy. The role addresses complex trade processing for Equity, Macro, Multi-Asset Arbitrage, and Commodities strategies.

What you'll do

  • Design and architect high-throughput, horizontally scalable, and distributed trade processing systems.
  • Spend at least 50% of your time writing, reviewing, and delivering production code.
  • Manage the full post-trade lifecycle including capture, validation, enrichment, allocation, and settlement.
  • Lead the migration of the existing technology stack from C# to Rust.
  • Onboard new products onto the trade processing platform in collaboration with a small engineering team.
  • Establish standards and governance for the use of AI-assisted development tools across the team.
  • Provide technical leadership and light people management, including mentoring and career development for direct reports.
  • Translate business requirements into technical strategies and define long-term technical roadmaps.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of enterprise software engineering experience with demonstrated technical leadership and ownership of significant systems.
  • Strong command of C#/.NET and service-oriented/distributed architecture with a deep understanding of concurrent and high-performance programming.
  • Experience designing reliable, recoverable, and scalable systems under high volume.
  • Demonstrated experience using AI tools to accelerate enterprise software delivery and establishing governance for their use.
  • Ability to provide light people management and mentorship to a small team of engineers.
  • Excellent communication skills to translate complex technical concepts for both technical and business audiences.
  • Familiarity with modern DevOps practices and tooling such as JIRA, Git, Jenkins, and Octopus Deploy.
  • Experience with Rust (preferred); knowledge of FIX protocol, AWS/cloud-native architecture, or full-stack development (preferred).

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