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The Front Office Software Engineer will join the Linear Rates Technology team, a front-office technology group supporting trading desks, quantitative strategists, and various financial and risk departments. This role involves collaborating on the Firm’s next-generation cross-asset Risk Calculation Workplace (RICE), contributing to pricing, risk calculation, market data manipulation, and PnL estimation. The position offers exposure to pre-trading systems, front-office risk systems, and large-scale computing environments.

Key Responsibilities

Collaborate with trading desk, quantitative strategists, QA teams, and IT colleagues to gather and document requirements, design system architecture, and implement code solutions.

Guide QA teams in developing integration tests.

Conduct post-rollout follow-ups and provide production support.

Participate in knowledge transfer sessions and contribute to team learning and collaboration.

Work on large-scale Scala codebases and support high-volume computation on RICE platform, running billions of calculations across thousands of virtual machines.





Years of Experience 5-7 years of relevant experience in front-office technology, risk systems, or financial software development.

Education Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field. Advanced degrees preferred.

Required Skills

Strong programming skills, preferably in Scala or similar languages.

Experience with system architecture, design, and implementation.

Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams including trading, risk, QA, and IT.

Familiarity with financial markets, derivatives, and pricing/risk systems.

Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Preferred Skills

Experience with large-scale distributed computing environments.

Knowledge of front-office risk systems and PnL calculation.

Exposure to graph-based calculation platforms.

Familiarity with pre-trading systems and market data management.

Certifications None required, though financial or technical certifications are a plus.

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