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Full Stack Engineer

Post Id Number: 408129 Quick Apply
Employment Type: Permanent
Location: New York
Contact: cbridge@connectionsny.com
Salary Range: $150,000 - $200,000
Skills: agentic, AWS, Claude, Cursor, FastAPI, Linux, Market Data, MCP, NumPy, Pandas, Portfolio Management, Python, Pytorch, react, S3, SQS
Description:

We are looking for a talented engineer to work across the stack to build a platform for one of our portfolio management teams. Projects will have a substantial impact on trading and analytics tooling with the expectation to expand ambition and scope over time.

The successful candidate will combine strong technical skills, a passion for creative problem solving, and an intense curiosity. The group is looking for a versatile strong Python coder whose main responsibility will be to develop the platform for the portfolio management team within the firm. This is an ideal opportunity for a strong engineer that is looking to work within a trading team. 

Principal Responsibilities

  • Rapid development and release of applications: process automation, intelligent alerts, interactive visualizations, and portfolio analysis tooling
  • Develop and enhance the existing platform for quantitative and portfolio manager team members
  • Work on building out the Python codebase using the FastAPI, Flask, or other web frameworks 
  • Oversee the entire full stack development of the platform 
  • Integrate market data APIs from vendors and our own database and transform the data for the team’s non-relational database
  • Collaborate with team on best practices and overall business strategy

Qualifications/Skills Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related quantitative discipline
  • 4+ years of professional software or quant engineering experience
  • Strong applied knowledge of web base application development using React and/or Angular
  • Strong programming skills in Python both in web application development and data engineering/science tooling such as Numpy, Pandas, and/or PyTorch
  • Experience AI forward deployments agent orchestration frameworks & MCP
  • Strong SQL experience preferred for the pricing model's performance
  • Experience using agentic coding workflows using Cursor, Claude code, etc.
  • Experience with developing dashboards and other data visualization applications with Plotly, Matplotlib, Bokeh, Dash, etc.
  • Experience using AWS technologies such as S3, Athena, SQS, Batch, Lambda
  • Experience with Linux is a plus
  • Extremely organized and a self-starter with effective multitasking and prioritization skills
  • Highly motivated, willing to take ownership of work, drive to solve problems and work effective under pressure
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, willing to proactively engage other team members in fostering a strong collaborative team-oriented environment
  • Good team player with a strong willingness to participate and help others.
  • Able to prioritize in a fast moving, high pressure, constantly changing environment; High sense of urgency