Full-Stack Engineer

Contract · Poss. to Hire Hybrid · New York, NY

Role Overview Work directly with Front Office traders as part of a highly skilled Agile engineering team building globally used systems for the Delta One business. This is a hands-on, delivery-focused role spanning analysis, coding, testing, and direct business user interaction. You will contribute across the full product delivery lifecycle — from inception and design through development, release, and ongoing support — collaborating with stakeholders, architects, and engineers across global offices.

Knowledge of Equities Trading is highly desirable; strong curiosity and fast learning are equally valued.

Team Culture & Values

Growth Mindset

Engineers who love learning — whether that means understanding what traders do or rethinking how systems should be built.

Challenge the Status Quo

Diverse ideas are actively encouraged. Engineers guide both technology choices and overall business solution design.

Automation-First Delivery

Aggressive pursuit of increased release cadence through enhanced tooling, DevOps, and Agile methodology.

Business Partnership

Close collaboration with business partners around simplicity, efficiency, and transparency as core architectural principles.

Global Team Collaboration

New York London Hong Kong Additional Global Offices

Responsibilities

Deliver small, non-breaking, iterative changes to production that generate measurable business value.

Partner with business stakeholders to shape requirements, providing clear input on technology capabilities, constraints, and trade-offs.

Build, maintain, and improve stable, reliable, and scalable production systems.

Collaborate daily with business and technology teams across global offices.

Develop full-stack solutions across UI and backend services using modern engineering practices.

Contribute to backend/API development in Java and Python, including service integration and automation use cases.

Required & Preferred Skills

Mandatory

Core Java Spring Boot Microservices Python React AngularJS SQL / NoSQL Java/JEE REST APIs CI/CD Pipelines JIRA Maven Ansible Agile / DevOps Performance Tuning

Preferred / Nice to Have

GCP Equities Trading Knowledge Prime Brokerage Delta One / Equity Finance Front Office Systems

Soft Skills

Business Acumen Fast Learning Stakeholder Communication Peer Collaboration

Experience Requirements

6–10 years of software development experience including frontend work with React and/or AngularJS.

Strong backend experience with Core Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, and relational/non-relational databases.

Hands-on Python development for backend services, scripting, automation, and data processing.

Experience in incident investigation, issue resolution, and performance testing and tuning.

Demonstrated delivery using Agile methodologies and modern DevOps toolchains.

Good business acumen with understanding of how IT systems influence business outcomes.