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Front Office Technical Lead
Multi-strategy / Multi-manager hedge fund with >$3BB in AUM and a core focus on long / short equity strategies is seeking to hire a Front Office Tech Lead to lead. This is a unique opportunity to architect and build the firm’s investment platform and front-office applications from the ground up. They are seeking experienced front-end and full-stack engineers who can deliver world class trading applications from real-time portfolio management and risk monitoring tools to large scale document search and embedded AI applications. This role will have a significant impact on all parts of the business and will be a driver in expanding firm-wide PnL.
As the Front Office Lead, you will design and architect the foundation for all their investor-facing applications. You will build out the initial investment platform and expand their suite of management tooling. You will lead three current engineers on this team, and over time, expand the team of front-end, UX, and full-stack developers.
What you will build
- A centralized portal with individual sub-applications for managing all aspects of our investment process.
- End-to-end full stack features including database schema and ORM layers, auth and access control, server-side applications, client-side applications, and UX.
- Streaming and real-time data processing dashboards for portfolio analysis and risk management used by our front-office and investment professionals.
- Quantitative analysis tooling including charting, plotting, and simulations.
- Information retrieval dashboards including document search, display, and synthesis.
- Artificial Intelligence tooling including prompt management, workflow management, chat interfaces, and hosted sub-applications.
Required Experience
- 5+ years of building TypeScript/JavaScript applications in a modern framework (React, Next, etc).
- Experience building and delivering full-stack applications that touch on database, auth, server, client, and UX.
- Experience deploying and scaling workloads on Cloud infra (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
- Hands-on experience with real-time transports (WebSocket, SSE, etc).
- A track record of high shipping velocity. Given the greenfield nature of this role, iterating from idea to prototype quickly is imperative.
- Experience taking prototypes to hardened production applications including robust continuous integration & deployment, multi-tenancy and role based access control, database row level security, and observability / telemetry.
- Experience working with end users and driving product adoption.
Nice to have
- Experience with real-time dynamic pages, DOM virtualization, and windowing large/dynamic grids.
- Experience with Excel add-ins
- Experience with Bloomberg integration
- Experience building modern desktop applications
- Experience building financial analysis tooling
Key Objectives
- Front-End Architecture Design: Within the first 3-6 months, this candidate is expected to lay out the architecture for the firm’s centralized investment platform. They will work with the Head of Development and the Head of Data to understand the current tech stack, the broader technical vision, and the current front-end priorities. They will then synthesize that information into an architectural design.
- Portfolio Management Application: Within the first 6-9 months, this candidate is expected to deliver a real time portfolio management application including real time market data, positions, factor exposures, and risk metrics.
- Production Full Stack Infra: Within the first 12 months, this candidate will lay the foundation for our production grade full stack suite of applications, including CI/CD, authorization & RBAC, horizontally scalable client / server architecture, and automated ORM and schema evolution.
- Additional Applications: Around 12-18 months, this candidate is also expected to deliver on the first versions of 1-2 other high profile applications. These include charting, documents, prompt workflows, order entry, and earnings applications.
- Team Growth: This candidate will be a technical lead for a team of 3-4 engineers. They will work with the Head of Development to take over project management responsibilities and setting the team-wide best practices and development standards.
Post ID: 00117
Alissa Simão
Senior Recruitment Associate
Alissa is a Senior Recruitment Associate at Banyak Group, supporting retained and strategic search practices for Hedge Funds, Asset Managers, and Prop Trading. She is responsible for managing end-to-end candidate research and sourcing strategy and execution, client coordination and administrative support to Banyak’s leadership team.
Prior to joining Banyak Group, Alissa worked in Sales and Trading covering Fixed Income and Currencies for corporate and institutional clients at Morgan Stanley and Bank of America. She supported trade execution across fixed income products, bonds, repos, CDS, as well as FX products including NDFs and swaps.
What motivates Alissa most is staying closely attuned to the financial markets, following human capital moves, investment strategies, and major industry events, to advise candidates on career positioning with informed, timely insight. Alissa holds a degree in Public Administration with a double major in Economics.
Marcos Tassote
Senior Recruiter
Marcos is a Senior Recruiter at Banyak Group specializing in the Investment Management industry, partnering with clients including Hedge Funds, Prop Trading Firms, Market Makers, and Asset Managers.
Prior to joining Banyak Group, Marcos spent over five years in executive search focused mostly on commodities across Latin America. His commodities background remains a core part of his work today, particularly as he supports clients active across energy, metals, and agri markets, including derivatives and paper trading.
Naturally curious and drawn to international environments, Marcos has always been interested in markets, different cultures, and learning how things work. He learned English from an early age and holds a BBA from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo. He is based in São Paulo, Brazil.
Oban Cooper
Director of Prop Trading & Technology Recruitment
Oban is the Director of Prop Trading & Technology Recruitment, joining Banyak Group in 2022. He is responsible for leading retained search practices for Prop Trading Firms, Crypto Trading Firms, and Market Makers, while cross-functionally working with Hedge Funds, Asset Managers, and Family Offices. Additionally, he operates as a software developer building proprietary tools and infrastructure to optimize our recruitment efficiency.
Prior to joining Banyak Group, Oban was a licensed Private Investigator in the State of Florida with one of the world’s largest full-service investigation firms, CoventBridge Group. He has also held positions in sales, web design, and customer service, and spent most of his early career as an entrepreneur in Ecommerce.
Oban holds a Masters in Public Administration, a Masters in Criminal Justice, and a Bachelors in Criminal Justice, all from the University of Central Florida. He prides himself on being a versatile talent and a curious mind. Oban currently resides in Orlando, FL, with dreams of owning a farm.