Senior Software Engineer

Brevan Howard Asset Management

Brevan Howard Asset Management

Software Engineering
London, UK
Posted on Friday, March 1, 2024

COMPANY/DEPARTMENTAL OVERVIEW

The Firm:

BH Digital is the dedicated crypto and digital asset division of Brevan Howard, seeking to provide institutional investors access to the wide range of compelling opportunities presented by the structural disruption and innovation of blockchain technology. BH Digital pairs the institutional governance, controls and risk management of Brevan Howard with expertise native to crypto markets across investing and business operations.

Founded in 2002, Brevan Howard is a leading global alternative investment management platform, specialising in global macro. We manage assets for institutional investors around the world including sovereign wealth funds, corporate and public pension plans, foundations and endowments. We have over 350 team members and over 100 Portfolio Managers/Traders/Sub-PMs with offices in London, Jersey, Edinburgh, New York, Austin, Chicago, Geneva, Hong Kong, Singapore and the Cayman Islands. The firm is led by CEO, Aron Landy.

Brevan Howard is committed to equal employment opportunity and providing reasonable accommodations to qualified candidates and employees pursuant to applicable law. We value and encourage diversity and solicit applications from all qualified applicants without regard to race, colour, gender, sex, age, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, familial status, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, medical condition, military and veteran status, unfavourable discharge from military service, political affiliation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

The BH Digital division is undergoing a period of growth with a strong focus and investment in the technology platform, infrastructure, data and tooling. The successful applicant will join a small high impact team of engineers reporting directly into the CTO of BH Digital. You will be pivotal in building the foundational Digital data warehouse spanning structured (trade, position, risk, accounting) and unstructured (on-chain analytics, insights, feature extraction) datasets. You will work closely with cross functional stakeholders and build data pipelines, warehouse and tooling that acts as an enabler for portfolio managers, risk officers, operations and finance.

Source: BHAM: 1: Data as at 1 March 2022

MAIN DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE ROLE:

Essential Responsibilities:

  • Work in a small engineering team building critical trading infrastructure and components to support execution, treasury, risk and data analytics

  • Own the relationship with key stakeholders across the firm to inform the requirements, roadmap and priorities
  • Be comfortable owning the system design, architecture and implementation leaning on industry best practices

PERSON SPECIFICATION

WORK EXPERIENCE/BACKGROUND:

Essential

  • 5+ years of professional hands-on experience with Java, Kotlin, Rust or similar
  • 3+ years professional experience in financial services
  • Experience of working in a dynamic, fast paced environment
  • Experience with microservice architecture

Desirable

  • Experience with integrating with Cloud services, developing CI/CD pipelines and using Docker
  • Experience with Python or C# development
  • Experience with trading infrastructure
  • Experience with blockchain or node infrastructure