Adroit

www.adroit-tt.com

Company Info

Company Stats

• Sector: FinTech
• Size of Company: 10-20

• Size of relevant team(s):

• Stage: Self Funded

• Funding amount:

• Funding link: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/hedge-fund-as-a-service

• Valuation:

• Investors: FinTech Sandbox

About

• Leadership profiles: The Founder Anil Jaglan was the chief architect at Bridgewater before starting Adroit

• Description (in their words):

• Adroit is a FinTech Startup - currently around 20ppl and they are building trading systems for large HF's and Asset Managers
• Adroit's Alta is the first multi-asset front office O/EMS solution designed explicitly for buy-side firms. It is designed from the ground-up to handle the complexities of trading complex OTC assets - Swaps, FI, and FX. Since 2014, they have been powering the most sophisticated investment managers with a passion to eliminate regulatory and operational risk, minimize transaction costs, and maximize trader productivity.

• Worth Search Notes:

• Been operating for 6 yrs and are revenue positive and have very interesting work/problems they are working on
• The business is at an inflection point, gaining more clients and really are building some of the best tech in the space. They build in a very modular way and it can be deployed in many ways. Top hedge funds come to them to build and improve their internal trading systems. Cutting edge trading systems.
• Self funded, considering raising VC money but have not had to yet.
• Very stable business
• Even the largest funds have trouble doing the level of sophistication that Adroit does
• They are very good from a career development perspective, care about nurturing
• Trading systems for fast moving technologies - C#, Java, C , they are primarily a .NET shop
• Right now everybody is remote - will be remote until end of 2021, office is in Stamford, looking for an office in NY, preference is for someone in NY area (not remote long term)
• Other Relevant News Link: “Adroit’s Anil Jaglan featured in Greenwich Associates webinar “The Latest in Fixed Income Trading Systems”

Mission Statement

• Adroit brings a passion to maximize trader productivity, minimize transaction costs, highlight market opportunities, and ensure trading compliance.

Culture (in their words)

• Pride themselves on being nice people and having a positive culture

Visas

• Yes, open to visas/H1B transfers

Software Engineer Job Description

About the Role

• As a member of our team, you will have the opportunity to make significant contributions to the platform and help set the strategic direction of our product, alongside fintech industry veterans. You will be responsible for developing, testing, and integrating new features and expanding on the core platform.
• You’ll be a contributor to all levels of our software design and development. You’ll interface directly with senior managers (CTO and Development Managers) and at times with our clients to understand the problem and build elegant solutions. You’ll work on feature development, testing, bug fixing, maintenance, and support. You will have the opportunity to work on all aspects of our technology pipeline, from black-box algorithms to real-time visual analytics, from server and UI coding to our messaging architecture.

Key Responsibilities

• Help expand the Adroit platform to stay ahead of competition
• Thoroughly understand business and user requirements
• Design elegant and efficient solutions with guidance from our Chief Architect
• Working together with team members, develop scalable, testable, and elegant code
• Test and deploy for use in production

Ideal candidate will have

• BA or BS in Computer Science or related fields
• 2-5 years development experience
• 2 years of experience in C#.NET (or Java/Scala), SQL
• Experience with backend technologies (database, messaging, interprocess communications)
• Excellent business communication and interpersonal skills, and an ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical staff
• Demonstrated analysis/assessment capabilities
• An affinity for well-architected solutions and a passion for high standards of quality
• Ability to make independent, reliable decisions
• A superior work ethic, self-starter
• A sense of humor

Compensation

• $125-150k

Benefits

• This role can be fully remote, but candidates must be willing to work EST/EDT hours (UTC−04:00)
• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Retirement Plan (401k, IRA)
• Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
• Short Term & Long Term Disability