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Summit Securities Group · 1 month ago

Software Engineer

New York, NY

Full-time

Onsite

New Grad, Entry Level

$100K/yr - $150K/yr

0+ years exp

Summit Securities Group is a trading firm that emphasizes the integration of human intuition and machine intelligence. They are seeking a junior Software Engineer to join their Core Engineering team, where the engineer will work on building and optimizing data and post-trade infrastructures to support trading operations.

Financial Services

Responsibilities

Engineer Resilient Tools: You will help ensure our operations remain safe and compliant by building robust tools for firm-wide risk viewing and reporting

Build Scalable Data Infrastructure: Develop and maintain the engines that ingest and transform data. You will help build out our global security master and ensure downstream systems have frictionless access to a high-quality data warehouse

Master Data & Reliability: You will tackle complex technical challenges—ranging from automating the flow of raw market data to ensuring the real-time reliability of our risk and position monitoring systems

Automate & Orchestrate: Utilize Airflow and Ansible to automate complex data flows and deployment processes, ensuring data enters our firm and reaches researchers without friction

Obsess Over the User Experience: You will build tools that are intuitive and powerful for traders and quants

Uphold Engineering Standards: Champion best practices, including automated testing, CI/CD, and proactive system monitoring to ensure our Linux/Kubernetes environments remain self-healing and robust

Qualification

PythonLinuxKubernetesC++AirflowAnsibleData StructuresTechnical CuriosityDriven by ImpactAttention to DetailCollaborative Orientation

Required

0–3 years of professional software engineering experience

A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

Strong command of Python for backend development. You can write clean, efficient, and Pythonic code

Excellent grasp of data structures, algorithms, and system design principles. You know how to choose the right tool for the job and understand the trade-offs

Technical Curiosity: You have a relentless drive to understand how things work under the hood. You aren't satisfied with 'it works'—you want to know why

Attention to Detail: In trading, accuracy is paramount. You take pride in writing reliable code and handling edge cases gracefully

Collaborative Orientation: You are energized by working closely within a team, communicating clearly, and focusing on collective success

Driven by Impact: You take deep satisfaction in seeing your work have a direct, measurable effect on our operations

Preferred

Familiarity with C++ is a strong plus. Our high-performance trading engines run on C++, and the ability to read or interface with that codebase is valuable