Software Engineer - Fundamental Equities

Schonfeld
New York
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 150,000 - 175,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 2-5 yearsSkills: ["Python","SQL","PostgreSQL","FastAPI","AWS","EC2","Docker","Kubernetes","Prefect","Airflow","Terraform","LLM","AI","Agents","MCP servers","Tooling","CI/CD","Version control","Documentation","Testing"]

Join the Fundamental Equity COO team as a Software Engineer to build backend services, data pipelines, and internal APIs in AWS, collaborating with quant researchers and COO management. Drive AI integration with LLMs, agentic workflows, and multi-model orchestration to enhance productivity and leverage existing data. Own end-to-end delivery with proactive, business-facing impact.

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Software Engineer - Fundamental Equities

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Job Summary

Join the Fundamental Equity COO team as a Software Engineer to build backend services, data pipelines, and internal APIs in AWS, collaborating with quant researchers and COO management. Drive AI integration with LLMs, agentic workflows, and multi-model orchestration to enhance productivity and leverage existing data. Own end-to-end delivery with proactive, business-facing impact.
Location: New York
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Write clean, well-structured, maintainable code and contribute to good engineering practices within the team, including CI/CD pipelines and version control
  • •Build, deploy, and maintain internal APIs (FastAPI) and backend services that surface portfolio analytics, market data, and quantitative outputs to investment professionals, hosted within the team’s AWS environment
  • •Own and extend scheduled data pipelines and orchestration workflows (Prefect) running in containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes), ensuring reliability and observability across the platform
  • •Contribute to the AI integration layer in close coordination with central Technology teams: strategically implementing and operating AI capabilities tailored to the specific needs of the Fundamental Equity business, spanning LLM APIs, MCP servers, and agentic workflows across a multi-model architecture
  • •Build and maintain a shared AI plugin and skills library that can be leveraged by all Fundamental Equity investment professionals, ensuring capabilities are well-documented, reusable, and model-agnostic

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 150,000 - 175,000 annually

Key Requirements

  • •2–5 years of experience in a relevant role: quantitative development, dev strats, analytics engineering, or quantitative analysis at a bank, hedge fund, asset manager, or financial data provider
  • •Strong Python proficiency with an emphasis on well-structured, object-oriented codebases; solid SQL and database design skills, particularly PostgreSQL
  • •Experience building and deploying backend services and APIs (FastAPI or equivalent) in a production environment
  • •Hands-on experience with AI/LLM integration across multiple model providers: API usage, prompt engineering, tool use, and retrieval-augmented workflows
  • •Practical familiarity with MCP servers, agentic frameworks, or multi-model orchestration architectures (custom implementations or equivalent
Experience:2-5 yearsFinanceHedge fundAsset managementQuantitative
Skills:PythonSQLPostgreSQLFastAPIAWSEC2DockerKubernetesPrefectAirflowTerraformLLMAIAgentsMCP serversToolingCI/CDVersion controlDocumentationTesting
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PythonSQLPostgreSQLFastAPIAWSDockerKubernetesPrefectAirflowTerraform

Company Brief

Schonfeld
Schonfeld is a multi‑strategy investment firm that deploys capital across systematic and discretionary strategies across equities, macro, and quantitative trading, serving institutional and private investors globally.
Industry: Hedge Funds
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Established Company
Headquarters: New York, United States
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