Principal Full Stack Engineer Hedge Fund About The Role We are seeking an accomplished Principal Full Stack Engineer to lead the design and development of missioncritical trading, risk, and analytics platforms at a leading hedge fund. This role is central to building the systems that power research, execution, and portfolio management across global markets. You will architect solutions that combine highperformance backend services with intuitive frontend tools, enabling researchers, traders, and risk managers to make faster, smarter decisions. As a senior technical leader, youll define technical direction, mentor engineers, and collaborate with quantitative researchers and portfolio managers. Youll work across the entire technology stack, from ultralowlatency services to rich web applications, ensuring our systems are robust, secure, and performant. This is a handson role with the opportunity to make a direct impact on trading strategies and investment outcomes. What Youll Do Architect & Scale Systems: Design and evolve trading, risk, and research platforms with a focus on performance, fault tolerance, and security. Build Full Stack Applications: Develop highperformance backend services (Python, Java, or C++) alongside modern frontend interfaces (React/TypeScript). Collaborate with Quants: Work closely with quantitative researchers, portfolio managers, and data scientists to translate models into production systems. Optimize for Speed & Reliability: Ensure systems meet the demands of lowlatency trading and realtime risk monitoring. Mentor Engineers: Guide a team of senior engineers, set best practices, and foster a culture of technical excellence. Operational Ownership: Champion observability, incident management, and continuous improvement to maintain worldclass reliability. What Were Looking For Extensive Experience: 10+ years of building and scaling distributed, serviceoriented systems; 3+ years in a leadership or staff role. Languages: Expertise in Python, Java, or C++ with strong skills in JavaScript/TypeScript for modern web development. Financial Systems Exposure: Experience with trading platforms, risk systems, or market data infrastructure preferred. Cloud & Infrastructure: Strong experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure; containerization with Docker and Kubernetes; Infrastructure as Code. Data Systems: Proficiency with SQL and NoSQL databases, messaging systems (Kafka, Pulsar), and realtime streaming. Security Mindset: Knowledge of best practices in authentication, encryption, and secure software development for financial systems. Collaboration: Ability to partner with researchers, traders, and operations teams to deliver solutions that meet business goals. Education: Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. Why Join This is a unique opportunity to apply your fullstack expertise in one of the most dynamic environments in the world. Youll build systems that directly impact investment performance, work alongside some of the brightest minds in quantitative finance, and shape the next generation of trading and research platforms. The challenges are complex, the stakes are high, and the rewards are significant. About Andiamo Talent Partners for the AI Revolution. As a globally recognized staffing and consulting firm, we specialize in placing the top 2% of technology and gotomarket professionals with the worlds largest and most wellknown companies. For over 20 years, we''''ve maintained the status of tierone vendor for firms such as Palantir, Amazon, Fluidstack, Bloomberg, Relativity Space, Firefly, MasterCard, Visa, Two Sigma, Citadel, as well as other major financial services firms, elite hedge funds, Google-backed tech startups, and major software firms. Our talent solutions include Permanent Placement, Contract Staffing, Executive Search, and Dedicated Recruiting Services (RPO). Find out more at www.andiamogo.com #J-18808-Ljbffr
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Full Stack Engineer - Elite Hedge Fund