The Opportunity
Mesirow is an independent, employee-owned financial services firm founded in 1937. Headquartered in Chicago, with offices around the world, we serve clients through a personal, custom approach to reaching financial goals and acting as a force for social good. With capabilities spanning Private Capital & Currency, Capital Markets & Investment Banking, and Advisory Services, we invest in what matters: our clients, our communities and our culture. We are proud of our employee-owned culture, built on collaboration and shared success, empowering our professionals to develop meaningful relationships, pursue growth opportunities and make a lasting impact for our clients and communities. Mesirow has been named one of the Best Places to Work in Chicago by Crain’s Chicago Business multiple times and is one of Barron’s Top 100 RIA firms.
Mesirow Currency is seeking a motivated Software Engineer to help develop our proprietary systems. This is a high growth, high visibility area with plenty of opportunities to enhance your skillset and build your career. Your work will have immediate, tangible impact: the systems you support are critical to our daily business operations. You will work alongside experienced engineers and business stakeholders, taking ownership of well-scoped features while building your knowledge of our systems and the currency-management business.
Responsibilities:
- Own delivery of features and enhancements to our portfolio management and trading systems while also solving for changing business needs
- Develop and maintain reliable, performant production applications, with attention to correctness and maintainability
- Participate in an agile team dynamic; own testing through test automation, drive DevOps capabilities and CI/CD across environments.
- Leverage authorized AI tools to improve SDLC velocity and increase system reliability.
- Contribute to code reviews, refactoring, and improvements informed by testing, performance measurements, and production feedback
- Investigate and resolve application issues, collaborating with other engineers on complex problems
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
- Experience in application development and testing in C# or equivalent
- Hands-on experience with modern front-end frameworks such as React
- Experience in designing and building APIs
- Solid understanding of relational databases
- Knowledge of observability; monitoring, logging, and alerting
- DevOps experience, Git-based workflows and CI/CD
- Self-starter with strong ownership, problem-solving skills, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-moving environment.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to translate business requirements into practical solutions and work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Nice to Have:
- Experience in the Financial Services industry
- Solid understanding of the .NET stack
- Experience working in an Azure environment
In accordance with the Illinois Pay Transparency Law, the anticipated hiring base salary for the role will be between $110,000 and $150,000 per year. However, base pay if hired will be determined on an individualized basis and is only part of the total compensation package, which, also provides the opportunity for a performance based bonus and the Mesirow benefit program.
EOE
Equal Opportunity EmployerThis employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws. For further information, please review the Know Your Rights notice from the Department of Labor.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field
- Experience in application development and testing using C# or an equivalent language
- Hands-on experience with modern front-end frameworks such as React
- Experience designing and building APIs
- Solid understanding of relational databases
- Knowledge of observability, including monitoring, logging, and alerting
- DevOps experience, Git-based workflows, and CI/CD
- Strong ownership, problem-solving, prioritization, communication, and collaboration skills
- Experience in the financial services industry
- Solid understanding of the .NET stack
- Experience working in an Azure environment
Mesirow Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Mesirow and has not been reviewed or approved by Mesirow.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage includes medical, dental, vision, integrated mental-health services, One Medical membership, and HSA/FSA options with company-paid long-term disability. These offerings, alongside an EAP, indicate a robust healthcare foundation.
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Parental & Family Support — Family supports include 16 weeks paid leave for birth mothers, adoption and surrogacy assistance, and up to 20 days per year of back-up child and elder care via Bright Horizons. These benefits reflect meaningful support for caregivers.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing resources include a Lifestyle Spending Account, complimentary Headspace, milestone recognition programs, and a One Medical membership. Together with inclusion initiatives, these enhance overall work-life experience.
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What We Do
Mesirow is an independent, employee-owned financial services firm founded in 1937. Headquartered in Chicago with offices around the world, we serve clients through a personal, custom approach to reaching financial goals and acting as a force for social good. With capabilities spanning Global Investment Management, Capital Markets & Investment Banking, and Advisory Services, we invest in what matters: our clients, our communities and our culture. To learn more, visit www.mesirow.com and follow us on LinkedIn. Mesirow was also recently named one of the Best Places to Work in Chicago by the Chicago Tribune and one of the Top Places to Work by Crain’s Chicago Business.
