Principal Software Engineer

The Role  Schonfeld is seeking a highly qualified and talented technologist to join its Reference Data Technology team. The Reference Data Management team at Schonfeld focuses on building and supporting centralized golden source of reference and master data. The key areas supported surround Securities, Financial Calendars and Investment Professional related data domains such as Portfolio’s, Broker Accounts and Books. The team also supports a centralized framework used to standardize how the firm masters and distributes data. These core sources of data support many aspects of the business ranging from Trade Execution, Accounting, Compliance, Treasury, Risk and Operations.                                                                                                                                                             What you’ll do  Principal Engineers at Schonfeld take on a wide range of responsibilities and challenges. Architecture & Development: Design, build and support highly available and scalable systems providing golden sources of data to the organization that support critical business functions ensuring they are designed to support agentic workflows and LLM orchestration whilst driving new uses of generative practices to provide cost-efficient and high performing solutions. Collaborate with Stakeholders: Work closely with key stakeholders within the business and technology on a day-to-day basis to analyze data and technical problems, design and develop solutions that solve business challenges and advocate for best practices and promote successes of the team. Enhance Tech Stack: Lead the improvement of our modern tech stack, building microservices deployed to the cloud (AWS) using K8s and increasing business benefit through the delivery of MCP servers and agentic solutions to increase the efficiency of delivery and business decision making. Drive architectural decisions and discussions with stakeholders and team members, gaining buy-in. Contribute to Firmwide Frameworks: Ensure the code base is highly supportable, future-ready, and performant without latency. Lead in the development of re-usable components and AI solutions to solve real-world challenges and contribute to firmwide libraries. Technical Leadership: Own end-to-end delivery of strategic, cross-functional projects and continuously improving reliability, security and performance. Mentorship: Upskill team members on software engineering best practices, modern frameworks, cloud and AI technologies. What you’ll bring What you need: At minimum, seven years of experience i...