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We have requirements across various teams whose work spans the entire life cycle of a trade, scalable, high-performing data APIs in support of our Quant research, the systems supporting post-trade, accounting, valuation, and reporting operations, infrastructure solutions for analytic computations, and critical applications that support legal workflows. Because the software we build is closely tied to the performance of the firm's investments and to its day-to-day operations, the work done by these teams is highly critical and impactful.\nResponsibilities:\nYou will execute individual projects and deliverables while collaborating with business groups, driving complete project lifecycles from collecting and analyzing requirements through design, implementation, deployment, and production support.\nYou will work closely with a broad set of stakeholders, translating their needs into well-reasoned technical\nproposals and carrying those proposals through to delivery while holding a high bar for both quality and timelines.\nYou will also perform R& D to evaluate the appropriate technologies to use and resolve application and data issues in production within timelines.\nYou will explore and apply generative AI both to solve business problems and to accelerate your own work across prototyping, coding, testing, and troubleshooting.\nYou will build robust domain knowledge in the business you support, continually look for ways to improve the existing setup, and strike the right balance between pragmatic near-term solutions and long-term maintainability.\nYou will provide direction and guidance to junior members of the team, participate actively in code and design reviews, and contribute to an excellent engineering culture through documentation, knowledge sharing, and mentorship.\nRequirements:\nA bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or a related technical field, with a solid foundation in algorithms, data structures, and object-oriented design.\n2 to 4 years of robust programming experience in one or more of C++, Java, or Python, along with the willingness to work in a language-agnostic environment.\nRobust low-level design (LLD) skills and the ability to translate requirements into clean, maintainable, well-structured code.\nDemonstrated technical problem-solving ability, high quantitative aptitude, and a solid grasp of core computer science fundamentals.\nThe ability to work independently, with focus, discipline, and attention to detail, in an agile and interdisciplinary environment.\nExcellent written and oral communication skills, along with good interpersonal and reasoning ability.\nExperience with front-end technologies such as React, along with RESTful web services, messaging middleware, and relational databases.\nExperience working with large datasets and building scalable, high-performing data pipelines, libraries, or APIs.\nExposure to the finance domain or familiarity with financial markets.","description_format":"text","description_chars":3091,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":2,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Asset Management","Capital Markets"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-23T23:07:59Z"}],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":15,"reasons":["seen:0","win:early","comp:junior"],"computed_at":"2026-09-24T03:51:52Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/d-e-shaw-backend-engineer-2","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/d-e-shaw-backend-engineer-2.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-24T03:51:52Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers"}}