Company Description

HedgeServ is a successful hedge fund administration company that features a unique technology platform with one of the most experienced service teams in the industry. HedgeServ provides a service solution for front office, risk, valuations, middle office, fund accounting and fund administration that is customized to the needs of individual hedge funds, fund of hedge funds, and private equity funds. HedgeServ has offices all around the globe.

Role Description:

As a Backend Developer, you will become part of a successful international team, that aids in the creation and maintenance of complex financial software. This includes partnering with other developers, testers, application support engineers, and infrastructure automation engineers to ensure a smooth development and operational pipeline. This mid-level role focuses on Python backend development and will provide an opportunity to work on diverse distributed systems that power HedgeServ’s Security Master capability..

The team is based in the US and Sofia and is composed of between 5 to 10 ppl, split between QAs and Devs.

Please note that the position requires US working hours.

Role Responsibilities:

• Develop distributed back-end applications in Python composed of REST APIs, bulk data processing, and process automation.
• Collaborate with QA staff to develop automated testing methodologies and ensure that test coverage accurately represents the business requirements.
• Collaborate with team members to provide operational support staff with engineering expertise to diagnose, troubleshoot and solve problems that occur in production applications.

Why you will love working with us:

• Strong and resourceful company, but start-up like environment – HedgeServ is a well-established corporation with $450+ billons asset under administration and more than 1600 employees worldwide. Yet the development team is divided into independent, small, agile and cohesive teams.
• Working with smart people on challenging problems – due to the complex nature of the product, new technical and algorithmic challenges occur every day; therefore, you will work with smart people to tackle those as a team. You will be part of a strong united team that has open communication and works together to solve problems and share knowledge.
• Your opinion matters – company respects everyone’s opinion and your brilliant ideas will be heard, and you can actually make a change in a successful international company.
• We value quality code – we strongly believe in unit, integration and acceptance testing, conforming to best development practices, striving for great quality and performance. Business is supportive of development quality and allow capacity for refactoring, improvement and innovation.
• Innovate and own your solutions – you will have the opportunity to translate requirements into code, going through the whole development cycle. This will include improving a highly profitable financial application, as well as working on green field innovative projects.
• Feel valued - HedgeServ invests in its employees with many company-wide trainings, mentoring programs, sponsoring conference attendances, supporting personal growth, giving access to online courses and books.
• You can grow with us – HedgeServ is a big company, providing amazing opportunities for growth. Good work and performance are recognized and valued; career progression and promotions are based on merit.

Requirements:

• Strong critical thinking skills, including the abilities to reason about complex systems, think algorithmically, and troubleshoot problems with software
• 2+ years of experience developing backend or full-stack applications with an object oriented programming language like Python, Java, C#, C++, etc.
• Experience with SQL databases including writing queries, and working with indexes
• Understanding of development best-practices such as writing clean code, using appropriate design patterns and implementing object-oriented principles
• Logical minded, critical thinking, quick learner
• Knowledge of SQL
• Good written and spoken English
• Degree in Computer Science or related field

Nice to have:

• Experience with document databases such as MongoDB
• Experience with Docker and container orchestration such as Kubernetes
• Understanding of version control systems (e.g. Git/SVN)
• Knowledge of micro services in a distributed environment distributed software architectures including HTTP and event driven microservices

Please refer to job description.