IBOR Engineer

Balyasny Asset Management (BAM) is a global, multi-strategy investment firm with over $27 billion in assets under management. We are a diversified business with global breadth and depth. Our firm has a clear mission: to consistently deliver uncorrelated returns in all market environments. Today, BAM employs more than 160 portfolio managers and 1,200 investment professionals across 19 offices in the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. We are active across six investing strategies: Equities Long/Short, Equities Arbitrage, Macro, Commodities, Systematic, and Growth Equity. We also have a dedicated private investment team, BAM Elevate, and a standalone equities unit, Corbets Capital.

As a full stack engineer on our IBOR technology team, you will play a key role in designing, testing, deploying, and maintaining the firm’s Investment Book of Record (IBOR), our internal ledger of transactions and custodial positions. This is an exciting opportunity to work with a variety of programming technologies, including Python, Rust, AWS serverless technologies, Kafka/Kinesis, React/TypeScript, and C#.NET. We strive to produce flexible, scalable solutions that enable our business.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Innovate and Enhance: Design and improve multithreaded services.
• Decision Making: Make independent decisions while effectively mitigating risks.
• Ownership Mentality: Take full ownership of all aspects of our middle- and front-office supporting functions.
• Fast-Paced Environment: Thrive in a fast-paced setting, balancing second-line support with strategic development responsibilities.
• Global Collaboration: Work closely with engineers in the UK, US, and Hong Kong to deliver robust solutions.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• Experience: 5+ years of hands-on experience in a formal enterprise-level development environment, with experience in modern backend development and cloud-native technologies.
• Technical Skills:
  • Strong programming skills in one or more modern languages such as C#, Python, or Rust
  • Rust experience preferred, but not required as a primary language
  • Understanding and effective use of the event sourcing pattern in design
  • Proven experience building connected, service-oriented applications
  • Experience with cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, etc.)
  • Experience working on web and desktop platforms, with expertise in React, TypeScript, and modern UI frameworks
  • Familiarity with enterprise messaging systems such as Kafka or Kinesis
  • Experience with database systems (Microsoft SQL Server, Postgres, Snowflake)
• Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain complex ideas clearly to various audiences.
• DevOps Knowledge: Experience with JIRA, Git, Jenkins, and Octopus Deploy.

KEY ATTRIBUTES WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• Agile Development: Familiarity with Agile software development concepts.
• Test-Driven Development: Experience with behavior- and test-driven development.
• Financial Markets: Familiarity with different product types across Equity, Fixed Income, Rates, FX, and Commodity markets.
• Post-Trade Lifecycle: Insight into post-trade lifecycle processes.

WHY JOIN US?

• Impactful Work: Contribute to critical systems that drive our trade reporting processes.
• Professional Growth: Gain exposure to the business side of trading operations and post-trade processing.
• Collaborative Environment: Work closely with a talented team in a supportive and innovative environment.
• Global Network: Collaborate with engineers globally.