Risk Development Team Lead

Beacon is a financial technology platform designed to empower investment and risk teams with the tools and infrastructure they need to innovate and stay ahead. Combining deep financial markets expertise with cutting-edge technology, Beacon provides everything from pre-built trading and risk applications to the flexibility for quantitative developers to build, deploy, and share custom analytics and models. Its unified, cloud-native platform helps firms manage risk across all asset classes, streamline operations, and focus on developing strategies that drive competitive advantage. For more information visit www.beacon.io 

The TRMS (Trading and Risk Management Systems) team is responsible for developing, supporting and maintaining Beacon Platform’s trading and risk management applications and services. We are seeking an experienced Risk Development Team Lead, reporting directly to VP of TRMS, to head our team of experienced software engineers in building and enhancing our advanced risk management platform.

The successful candidate will:

• Lead and mentor a team of experienced software engineers in design, development, and maintenance of risk management applications and services.
• Provide direction, based on experience and best practices, relating to all aspects of software design and development – guiding the team on architecture, design, and functionality.
• Function as a hands-on leader to design, develop, enhance and maintain applications and components and participate in code reviews and provide technical feedback to the team.
• Collaborate closely with product management, quants, other internal teams as well as clients to gather, understand, and analyze requirements. Design, develop and deliver industry leading solutions to meet these requirements for new and existing clients.

Qualification & Experience:

• Experienced software lead with 10+ years of development experience in building trading and risk management solutions.
• Understand and be conversant in aspects relating to risk management methodologies applicable to a wide range of asset classes, including market risk (sensitivity, greeks, VaR, etc.) as well as counterparty credit risk (PFE, XVA, etc.).
• Experience designing and building enterprise level, scalable, performant systems.
• Excellent technical skills including experience and proficiency in Python and/or other OOP languages.
• Strong focus on design and testing, adhering to best practices. Keen eye for scalability, performance, simplicity, supportability, maintainability, and ease of use.
• Experience working with continuous build, test, and deploy processes.
• Proven track record of delivering results in fast paced environments. Ability to drive a process forward through completion, and to effectively prioritize competing objectives and urgent deadlines.
• Strong communication skills.
• Ability to mentor, develop, recruit top talent and to cultivate a culture of teamwork and innovation among the team.

Expected Salary: $200,000 - 250,000

What You’ll Love About Beacon

• Unlimited PTO - This isn’t your typical unlimited PTO plan. All employees take at least 20 days off a year. After that? Take the time off you need to strike the perfect work/life balance for you.
• 10 paid company holidays
• 401k match
• Charitable donation match
• Access to Udemy - An online learning and teaching marketplace with over 185,000 courses. Learn programming, marketing, data science, or brush up on your public speaking and writing skills.
• Company Culture - Our employees have a voice and can make a big impact across the organization. A lot of people in large companies don’t feel connected to what they’re doing and feel like they’re put in a box. Here you will have the freedom to be creative and innovative. We’re looking for smart and driven people to help get us to the next level. 

This job description is intended to outline the general nature and key responsibilities of the role. However, it is not exhaustive, and additional duties and responsibilities may be assigned as necessary to meet the evolving needs of the company.

Beacon does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, or based on an individual's status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state or local law. Beacon encourages applications from minorities, women, the disabled, protected veterans and all other qualified applicants.

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