Portfolio and Fixed Income Finance Development

The Job Details are as follows: Balyasny Asset Management L.P. (BAM) is a global institutional investment firm. We strive to deliver consistent, uncorrelated, absolute returns in all market environments by fostering a culture of research, innovation, and collaboration. BAM exists at the intersection of finance and technology, combining the deep industry knowledge of leading portfolio managers and financial analysts with software engineers and quantitative researchers. We leverage the collective expertise of our teams to seek out new investment opportunities, analyze market conditions, minimize risk, and provide superior service to our investment partners. With 1200 people in offices around the world, we embrace a culture that welcomes the free flow of ideas, promotes career development, and supports the health and wellbeing of our people through world-class benefits. Portfolio and Fixed Income Finance Development The Portfolio and Fixed Income Finance Team at Balyasny is responsible for building and supporting a world-class suite of tools for our Treasury and Financing teams, managing cash positions for the Firm to optimize costs. We are looking for an experienced and eager developer to join our team in supporting this mandate. Role Overview: Work with Financial Analysts to design and construct cutting edge front office applications Develop systems to enhance alpha generation, leverage borrow markets and optimize firm balance sheet Collaborate in a fast-paced team environment to understand, engineer, and deliver on business requirements Full lifecycle development including requirement, architecture, implementation, testing, and release Work with diverse sources of internal & external Portfolio Finance specific data to produce quantitative metrics to inform Portfolio Finance decision making Strike a balance along the dimensions of feasibility, stability, scalability, and time-to-market when delivering solutions Core Tech Stack: Python based financing tools and processes JavaScript front-end applications Docker containerization SQL, MongoDB, and Redis data storage Linux and Windows OS Qualifications & Requirements: 3 years of work experience as a backend Developer with a focus on Object Oriented Languages (C /C#, Java, Python) Bachelor’s in computer science or closely related field Experience architecting and building backend applications beginning from the design phase through implementation Experience with code optimization and performance tuning Strong knowledge of MSSQL. Specifically query building, table design and performance tuning Understanding of the full scope of application development (authentication, integrating with APIs, build process, testing, validation, state management) Experience with source code control (Git experience preferred) Excellent communication skills Eager to learn and take initiative Analytical skills – Ability to troubleshoot and logically assess problems and determine solutions Documentation skills – ability to represent ideas, requirements and problems in a clear and concise manner Additional experience in the following areas is a plus: Experience building Restful APIs Experience creating Front End applications (JavaScript, React framework) Experience with PostgreSQL or other relational database technologies Experience with Equity Financing based systems a big plus Experience working with financial market data from Bloomberg, Reuters or other similar sources Experience with hedge fund industry or other financial instruments/software (research, risk management, portfolio accounting, reconciliation, order management, etc.)