Arcesium is a global financial technology firm that solves complex data-driven challenges faced by some of the world’s most sophisticated financial institutions. We constantly innovate our platform and capabilities to meet tomorrow’s challenges, anticipate the risks our clients encounter, and design advanced solutions to help our clients achieve transformational business outcomes.
Financial technology is a high-growth industry as change and innovation continue to disrupt the status-quo and prompt major transformation. Arcesium is at a particularly interesting time in our own growth as we look to leverage our successfully established market position and expand operations in pursuit of strategic new business opportunities. We value intellectual curiosity, proactive ownership, and collaboration with colleagues, and we empower you to meaningfully contribute from day one and accelerate your professional development.
We are looking for an exceptionally talented resource to join one of our cross-functional product teams in our Hyderabad/Bangalore office for an Individual contributor role. This product team is responsible for building the core accounting product offering of our platform. This position offers opportunity to define and design the next generation of products on our platform, which is used by some of the most sophisticated hedge funds in the world; and to collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry.
What You'll Do:
- Carry the product/feature from concept to creation
- Brainstorm product/feature and its value proposition to our client base
- Distill the vision into documents such as product roadmap and product/feature specification via deep dives into domain, gathering requirements and/or business analysis
- Work closely with the engineers/architects to translate the Product Specification to design, and then to the product itself
- Prepare comprehensive business test cases/beds to aid the engineering process
- Rigorously and continuously evaluate the progress of product/feature-in-flight by leveraging the created test cases/beds and ensure compliance to the product/feature specification and the vision
- Track and question risks/assumptions
- Proactively escalate issues and mitigate execution risks
- Be involved in conducting competitor analysis
What You'll Need:
- Ability to code in Python is a must
- Fluent with LLMs and agentic tools, and use them daily to accelerate research and analysis.
- Working knowledge for Fixed income asset classes and its related concepts like amortization, loan settlements etc.
- Demonstrates high agency- self-directed, outcome-accountable, and proactive in problem-solving.
- Critical thinking and the ability to articulate standpoints/ideas and influence stakeholders
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to multitask and manage multiple lines of execution with attention to detail and quality
- Certifications in financial domain such as CA, CFA will be an added advantage
- Experience of working in the front, middle and/or back-office space will be an added advantage.
- Fund accounting and journal entries knowledge will be an added advantage.
- Experience working closely with engineers
- Outstanding academic background & passion to work in a high-tech software development environment
- A high level of personal maturity and a collaborative attitude
- A healthy combination of resourcefulness, domain expertise, creativity and execution prowess
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Arcesium is an equal opportunity employer.
Skills Required
- Ability to code in Python
- Fluent with LLMs and agentic tools and daily use
- Working knowledge of fixed income asset classes and concepts (amortization, loan settlements)
- Experience working closely with engineers
- Demonstrates high agency, proactive problem-solving
- Critical thinking and ability to articulate and influence stakeholders
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to multitask and manage multiple lines of execution with attention to detail
- Certifications in financial domain such as CA, CFA
- Experience in front, middle and/or back-office
- Fund accounting and journal entries knowledge
- Outstanding academic background & passion for high-tech software development
- Collaborative attitude, personal maturity, resourcefulness, and execution prowess
Arcesium Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Arcesium and has not been reviewed or approved by Arcesium.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as comprehensive, including medical, dental, vision, mental‑health programs, and protections for life, accident, and disability. The scope indicates strong support for physical and mental well‑being.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include a 401(k) and a pension alongside financial protections such as life and disability insurance. These elements point to meaningful long‑term financial security within total rewards.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is characterized as generous, with extended maternity and supportive paternity leave in some locations, plus family and adoption assistance. This family focus complements broader time‑off and caregiving supports.
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What We Do
Arcesium is a global financial technology and professional services firm, delivering post-investment and enterprise data management solutions to some of the world's most sophisticated financial institutions, including hedge funds, banks, institutional asset managers, and private equity firms. Expertly designed to achieve a single source of truth throughout a client's ecosystem, Arcesium's cloud-native technology is built to systematize the most complex workflows and help clients achieve scale. Building on a platform developed and tested by investment and technology development firm, the D. E. Shaw group, Arcesium was launched as a joint venture with Blackstone Alternative Asset Management. J.P. Morgan, another large client, later joined as our third partner. Today, Arcesium services over $679 billion in global client AUM with a staff of over 1,500 software engineering, accounting, operations, and treasury professionals.
