Software Engineer II - Market Risk

Salary: $$ 180000 - $$ 220000 per year

Location: Stamford, Connecticut

Posted: August 04 2026

Minimum Degree:

Relocation Assistance: Available

Job description:

Description

NO CONSULTANTS OR CONTRACTORS NEED TO APPLY (Only FTE Employees)

This is a hybrid role (3 days in the office/2 days remote).

About your team:

Our Client is seeking an experienced Full Stack Java Developer to join a small, high-impact team responsible for the development and maintenance of CoChMA (Client-risk Operations and Control Hub for Monitoring Applications), our integrated client services risk management platform, along with various other internal risk and margin systems. These tools are mission-critical, actively utilized by the Client Risk Management (CR) team to monitor and mitigate client-facing risk exposure across our global operations.

The ideal candidate is a technically strong, self-motivated developer who thrives in a fast-paced financial environment and takes ownership of the systems they build consistent with our culture of curiosity, innovation, collaboration, and personal accountability.

What will be your responsibilities:

  • Design, develop, and maintain server-side application components using Java and the Vert.x framework
  • Build and enhance front-end interfaces using Vue.js, HTML, and CSS
  • Write and optimize complex Oracle SQL queries, stored procedures, and data models to support margin rate governance system, risk and margin reporting
  • Participate in the full software development lifecycle, including requirements analysis, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance
  • Monitor system health and performance, proactively identifying and resolving issues in production environments
  • Contribute to code reviews, technical documentation, and team knowledge sharing
  • Work independently and take full ownership of assigned modules and features, ensuring timely and high-quality delivery
  • Continuously improve existing systems through refactoring, performance tuning, and adoption of best practices
  • Have a desire to learn about and understand financial instruments and concepts.

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Qualifications:

NO CONSULTANTS OR CONTRACTORS NEED APPLY!!! (Only FTE employees)

Skills Required:

  • Proven experience as a Full Stack Developer with a strong emphasis on Java back-end development
  • Hands-on experience with Vert.x or similar reactive/event-driven Java frameworks
  • Proficiency in front-end technologies: Vue.js, JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
  • Strong working knowledge of Oracle SQL, including query optimization and schema design
  • Solid understanding of RESTful API design and integration
  • Experience developing and maintaining applications in a financial services or similarly high-stakes environment
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a data-driven mindset
  • Ability to work effectively within a small, collaborative team while managing individual responsibilities with a high degree of autonomy

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with Perl and/or Python for scripting, automation, or data processing tasks
  • Familiarity with risk management concepts, margin systems, or financial regulatory frameworks
  • Exposure to low-latency or high-availability system design
  • Experience working in an Agile or iterative development environment

To be successful in this position, you should be:

  • Detail-oriented self-starter who is comfortable working both independently and collaborating with your team.
  • Passionate about writing clean, well-tested, and maintainable code.
  • You should have a high level of comfort in an environment of continuous integration and deployment.
  • Optimizing, improving, and supporting existing algorithms and systems to reach the goal of highly automated robust systems with full test coverage requiring minimal operational oversight.
  • Creating independent automated risk controls and checks to ensure that systems are performing as expected and catching potential errors as soon as possible.
  • Developing message-oriented systems, batch processing applications, and web application-based management consoles.
  • Continuous learner and will use and/or learn the right language and technology to solve a problem

Why is This a Great Opportunity:

Company Benefits & Perks

  • Competitive salary, annual performance-based bonus and stock grant
  • Retirement plan 401(k) with competitive company match
  • Excellent health and wellness benefits, including medical, dental, and vision benefits. Company paid medical healthcare premium.
  • Wellness screenings and assessments, health coaches and counseling services through an Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Daily company lunch allowance provided and a fully stocked kitchen with healthy options for breakfast and snack
  • Corporate events including team outings, dinners, volunteer activities and company sports teams
  • Education reimbursement and learning opportunities

Salary Type : Annual Salary

Salary Min : $ 180000

Salary Max : $ 220000

Currency Type : USD






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