Garda Capital Partners (Garda) is a multi-billion dollar alternative investment firm with over 21 years of experience deploying relative value strategies across fixed income markets for institutional investors. Garda's primary offices are located in Wayzata, New York City, West Palm Beach, Geneva, Zug, Copenhagen, Singapore, and Scottsdale.
Garda is looking to hire a Software Engineer to be a part of our Research and Technology (R&T) team based out of one of our North American offices (NY or MN). This is an exciting position offering opportunities to gain exposure to enterprise software development practices at a global hedge fund.
The R&T team is responsible for all of the firm's applications & infrastructure including analytics, portfolio and risk management. The selected candidate will join the team are responsible for building and maintaining the services that support our Middle Office and Trade Support operations. This position requires proficiency and experience in software development using Microsoft .Net based technologies. While prior business knowledge is not mandatory, capital markets related experience will be a plus.
Position Responsibilities:
- Aid in the development of new lines of business solutions using C#, Javascript, React, WPF and Relational Databases
- Support senior staff in designing and implementing complete solutions for our Risk and Middle Office Groups.
- Provide support for in-house and 3rd party applications
Qualifications & Desired Skills:
- 3+ Year of object-oriented development, preferably with C# (using common programming design patterns and good practices)
- 3+ Year of relational databases and SQL experience, data modeling, and database design
- Experience with .Net 6+ with Web API, dependency
- Web development experience preferred
- Experience with gRPC, Javascript, React a plus
- Experience with Python a plus
- Bachelor's or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or Finance
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Passionate about programming and technology
- Interest in financial trading industry
- Ability to work effectively in a high-energy, time sensitive team environment
- Detail-oriented with strong verbal and written communication skills
- Knowledge of fixed income trading and related financial instruments including bonds and interest rate derivative products preferred, but not required
This role is also eligible for other forms of compensation and benefits, such as a discretionary bonus, healthcare plan, 401(k) matching program, etc. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, such as job-related skills, experience, and relevant education.
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Garda embraces one investment strategy with one focus: Protect and grow capital for institutional investors who entrust their money to Garda so they can deliver on their promises to their stakeholders. Garda's approach to fixed income relative value investing, their integrity, has earned the trust of investors and counterparties over many market cycles.
