Sr. Software Development Engineer

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Beacon Risk & Pricing Platform team. In this role you will design, build, and operate mission-critical market data and reference data pipelines that feed our real-time pricing and risk engines. You will work closely with quant researchers, data vendors, and platform engineers to ensure that high-quality, low-latency data flows reliably across the entire investment analytics stack.

What you'll do

• Market & Reference Data Pipelines
• Design and build scalable Python-based ETL/ELT pipelines ingesting multi-asset market data (equities, fixed income, derivatives, FX
• Engineer and maintain a robust securities master (reference data) system covering identifiers (CUSIP, ISIN, SEDOL, FIGI), corporate actions, instrument attributes
• Build real-time and batch data feeds using AWS-native services (Kinesis, MSK/Kafka, Glue, Lambda, Step Functions) with SLAs measured in milliseconds to seconds
• Implement data quality frameworks — completeness checks, anomaly detection, stale-data alerting, and automated reconciliation against authoritative vendor sources

What you need

• 7–13 years in software engineering
• Python
• SQL
• AWS
• ETL
• Data modelling
• Reconciliation
• Any graduate

Good to have

• Airflow
• Redshift
• Pandas
• Spark
• Kafka
• Capital markets