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.
- Compute-intensive services that run calculations over large numbers of instruments and inputs.
- Distributed, event-driven systems that combine results across large portfolio hierarchies.
- Market and reference data that has to be checked and transformed before it can be used.
- Representing how financial instruments behave across asset classes.
- Integrating third-party libraries.
- Mentoring engineers and setting the bar for design, testing and code review.
- 10+ years of professional software development in C++, Java or Python.
- A proven track record of performance-critical, high-volume systems in production.
- Experience with parallel and distributed computing, messaging and event-driven architectures.
- A solid grounding in financial mathematics and in financial instruments across asset classes.
- A degree in mathematics, physics, engineering, computer science or similar.
- Experience from investment management, trading or capital markets, close to the front office.
- Experience with cloud-native platforms.
Recruiting Security
Emails from genuine Arcesium recruiters who are employees of the company will always come from the @arcesium.com domain. In some cases, you may also be contacted by independent search firms engaged to recruit on our behalf; emails from their employees should always come from their firm's applicable domain. We'll never ask for your banking information or any payment as part of the recruiting process. If something seems off or you're contacted by an unexpected third party, please reach out to us at [email protected] (US/UK), [email protected] (India) or [email protected] (Portugal/Sweden).
Arcesium is an equal opportunity employer.
Skills Required
- 10+ years of professional software development experience in C++, Java, or Python
- Experience building performance-critical, high-volume production systems
- Experience with parallel and distributed computing
- Experience with messaging and event-driven architectures
- Knowledge of financial mathematics and financial instruments across asset classes
- Degree in mathematics, physics, engineering, computer science, or a similar field
- Experience in investment management, trading, or capital markets close to the front office
- Experience with cloud-native platforms
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.
Arcesium Insights
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.
