Responsibilities
- Lead architecture, design, and delivery of C#, Python, and React-based solutions supporting high-volume trading.
- Ensure performance, scalability, resilience, reliability, and regulatory compliance across cloud environments (AWS/Azure).
- Collaborate with business and operations teams to translate requirements into technical solutions.
- Mentor engineers, establish best practices, and build a culture of technical excellence.
- Oversee delivery execution: backlog management, sprint planning, and reporting.
Required Experience
- 12+ years of software engineering experience in financial services environments, with 5–8+ years in leadership.
- Experience building and modernizing trading platforms or financial systems (OMS, EMS, risk, or similar)
- Strong hands-on experience with C# and Python in production environments
- Front-end development experience using React for complex, data-driven applications
- Full-stack architecture experience across APIs, services, and modern web applications
- Cloud platform experience (AWS and/or Azure)
- Proven track record of modernizing legacy systems into scalable, distributed platforms.
- Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
Preferred Experience
- Exposure to fixed income or multi-asset trading workflows.
- Familiarity with high-throughput, low-latency system design.
- Exposure to messaging systems (e.g., Kafka) and real-time data feeds.
Top Skills
What We Do
Doran Jones Inc. (DJI) is the leading financial services Data Engineering and Application Development firm, specializing in Capital Markets, Risk, and Regulatory Compliance. We are US-based, helping our clients fill gaps in capacity and expertise, reduce risk, and accelerate change. Our leaders average over 25 years of experience in Financial Services and Technology. DJI is repeatedly engaged by the largest and most complex clients for our Agile transformation expertise and practical understanding of the critical relationship between data, architecture, and application development.
DJI has a mission to place more people from non-traditional backgrounds into sustainable technology careers. Through partnerships with non-profit technology programs in underserved communities and Veteran organizations, candidates transition from tech training programs into real IT careers at DJI. Our unique recruitment policy allows us to create exceptional teams, bringing a broad spectrum of experience to our company and creating anything but a traditional consulting firm.
DJI is a wholly-owned subsidiary of McLaren Strategic Ventures, a private equity firm, that invests in start-ups and scale-ups. They provide a full range of highly trusted domain consulting, advisory services, and innovative technologies globally. Doran Jones is able to offer a broad range of technology, deeper AI and machine learning tools, data intelligence, alternative resourcing capabilities, and capital access to invest and digitize at scale. Our clients benefit from this unique portfolio allowing them to accelerate the pace of their own digital transformations through innovative products and services designed around industry-wide issues.
