Backend Software Engineer — Finance Data & APIs

Walker Elliott; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Walker Elliott, a well-established investment management firm in Houston, seeks a software developer to build and support the technology behind their investment platform. The role blends backend development with financial data work and collaborates with investment and operations teams.

You will design investment support systems, build APIs, and develop data processing pipelines in Python while ensuring data accuracy and security.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field with several years of professional development experience.
• Strong backend skills in C# within the .NET Framework.
• Python for data processing or workflow automation.
• Relational database design and query optimization.
• Exposure to financial, transactional, or time-based data sets.
• Understanding of clean code principles and maintainable design.
• Comfortable using Git in a team development environment.
• High attention to detail, especially around data quality.
• Strong communication skills across technical and business audiences.
• Ability to manage priorities in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
• Genuine interest in financial markets and growth of technical skills over time.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain systems that support investment and portfolio management functions.
• Build and support applications tied to performance reporting and risk analytics.
• Develop tools and pipelines for processing market and pricing data using Python.
• Build backend services and APIs supporting core investment workflows.
• Ensure data remains accurate, consistent, and traceable across systems.
• Work with business stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Troubleshoot data and system issues, including reconciliation and performance concerns.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to technical standards.
• Follow secure development practices suited to a business critical environment.
• Explore ways to bring modern data and automation techniques into existing systems.
• Design and maintain SQL Server database structures supporting financial and historical data.
• Write and optimize queries supporting reporting and analytics needs.

Skills

C#

Python

SQL

Git

Data quality

Communication

Clean code

Time management

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Tools

SQL Server

Azure

CI/CD

Pandas

Job description

Walker Elliott, a well-established investment management firm in Houston, seeks a software developer to build and support the technology behind their investment platform. The role blends backend development with financial data work and collaborates with investment and operations teams.

You will design investment support systems, build APIs, and develop data processing pipelines in Python while ensuring data accuracy and security.