Software Engineer - Fundamental Equities
AI summary of the role
Embedded software engineer on the Fundamental Equity COO team, building backend services, data pipelines, and AI-powered tooling (LLMs, agentic workflows) to directly support investment professionals.
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What you’ll do
- Build, deploy, and maintain internal APIs (FastAPI) and backend services for portfolio analytics, market data, and quantitative outputs in AWS
- Own and extend scheduled data pipelines and orchestration workflows (Prefect) in containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Contribute to AI integration layer: implement LLM APIs, MCP servers, and agentic workflows tailored to Fundamental Equity needs
- Build and maintain a shared AI plugin and skills library for investment professionals, ensuring reusability and model-agnostic design
What you’ll bring
- 2–5 years experience in quantitative development, dev strats, analytics engineering, or quantitative analysis at a bank, hedge fund, asset manager, or financial data provider
- Strong Python proficiency with object-oriented codebases; solid SQL and PostgreSQL database design
- Experience building and deploying backend services and APIs (FastAPI or equivalent) in production
- Hands-on AI/LLM integration: API usage, prompt engineering, tool use, retrieval-augmented workflows across multiple model providers
Technologies
Python · FastAPI · PostgreSQL · Docker · Kubernetes · Prefect · AWS · Terraform · LLM · MCP
About Schonfeld Strategic Advisors
Multi-strategy hedge fund managing $19B+ for institutions globally across quantitative, fundamental equity, tactical trading, and discretionary macro strategies.
Private Late · 1000–2000 people
Source and classification
Internal deployment & tooling · Evidence for this classification:
The Role We are looking for a Software Engineer to join the Fundamental Equity COO team, embedded directly within the business rather than in a central technology function. You will work alongside quant researchers and COO management to build backend services, data pipelines, and internal APIs that improve productivity, deepen AI adoption, and make better use of the data the business already has access to. AI integration is a core part of this role, not an afterthought. We are actively building out how LLMs, agentic workflows, and AI-powered tooling fit into the investment process, and this hire is expected to drive a meaningful part of that. You should come in with both hands-on experience and genuine conviction about where these technologies are heading. The role sits close to the investment process. We are looking for someone proactive and delivery-focused: someone who identifies
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The Role We are looking for a Software Engineer to join the Fundamental Equity COO team, embedded directly within the business rather than in a central technology function. You will work alongside quant researchers and COO management to build backend services, data pipelines, and internal APIs that improve productivity, deepen AI adoption, and make better use of the data the business already has access to. AI integration is a core part of this role, not an afterthought. We are actively building out how LLMs, agentic workflows, and AI-powered tooling fit into the investment process, and this hire is expected to drive a meaningful part of that. You should come in with both hands-on experience and genuine conviction about where these technologies are heading. The role sits close to the investment process. We are looking for someone proactive and delivery-focused: someone who identifies what needs to be built, takes ownership, and gets it done without waiting to be directed. The expectation is high-quality output, pragmatic solutions that work in the hands of investment professionals and create immediate value. What you’ll do Write clean, well-structured, maintainable code and contribute to good engineering practices within the team, including CI/CD pipelines and version control, with an active contribution to firmwide best practices so that deliverables can be broadly leverag [... source excerpt omitted ...] object-oriented codebases; solid SQL and database design skills, particularly PostgreSQL Experience building and deploying backend services and APIs (FastAPI or equivalent) in a production environment Hands-on experience with AI/LLM integration across multiple model providers: API usage, prompt engineering, tool use, and retrieval-augmented workflows. You have built things with these, not just read about them Practical familiarity with MCP servers, agentic frameworks, or multi-model orchestration architectures (custom implementations or equivalent) Experience with AI-assisted development tools (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor, or similar) as part of a day-to-day engineering workflow [... source excerpt omitted ...] ent Product-minded: you think about who is using the tool and what problem it solves, not just whether the code runs Comfortable in a business-facing team where pace matters and requirements evolve. This is not a research lab environment Self-starter who takes ownership end-to-end, from scoping and delivery through to maintenance and iteration Intellectually curious about financial markets and the investment process We’d love if you had: Experience building dashboards or lightweight frontend interfaces (e.g. Streamlit, React) for internal users Exposure to alternative data ingestion or vendor API integrations Prior experience in a hedge fund or multi-manager platform Who we
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