Experienced Software Engineer

at  Beacon Platform

Beacon Platform was founded in 2014 by Kirat Singh and Mark Higgins, industry leaders in building and designing enterprise-scale trading, analytics, and risk management platforms. Our products enable financial institutions of all sizes to operationalize front-office development at enterprise scale on the cloud. The Platform consists of Beacon Front Office Suite for cross-asset management of trades, positions and risk, and Beacon Core, an integrated development and operating platform that enables quants and software engineers to collaboratively develop and continuously deploy business solutions. Beacon’s open architecture and transparent source-code model empower clients to achieve their business goals while maintaining unparalleled ownership of the full technology stack.

POSITION OVERVIEW

Beacon is revolutionizing the financial services industry by empowering quantitative developer teams and business users, where clients can own the full technology stack. We are looking for a Software Developer to join our Core team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and deploying features of Beacon Cloud Product. You will collaborate with the team to define our product for existing and future clients, including asset managers, hedge funds, insurance companies, and commodities trading companies.

WHAT YOU’LL LOVE ABOUT BEACON

• Unlimited PTO - This isn’t your typical unlimited PTO plan. All employees take at least 20 days off a year. After that? Take the time off you need to strike the perfect work/life balance for you.
• 9 paid company holidays
• Pension Scheme
• Competitive health benefits
• Charitable donation match
• Access to Udemy - An online learning and teaching marketplace with over 185,000 courses. Learn programming, marketing, data science, or brush up on your public speaking and writing skills.
• Startup Culture - Our employees have a voice and can make a big impact across the organization. A lot of people in large companies don’t feel connected to what they’re doing and feel like they’re put in a box. Here you will have the freedom to be creative and innovative. We’re looking for smart and driven people to help get us to the next level.
  Beacon does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, or based on an individual’s status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state or local law. Beacon encourages applications from minorities, women, the disabled, protected veterans and all other qualified applicants.
  Beacon Platform participates in eVerif

The role straddles financial and non-financial aspects of Beacon Platform. You will work on defining, developing, and deploying various components including:

• Time series framework
• Financial deal model framework
• Integration with cloud computing services
• Performance optimization and tooling for performance tuning
• Dependency graph
• Compute grid and batch job scheduling
• Developer tools