Full-Stack Engineer — Finance Platforms & Data

Eleven Recruiting; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Eleven Recruiting is seeking a Full Stack Developer for their client, an investment firm, in Los Angeles, Dallas, or New York.

The role involves building full-stack applications, migrating legacy systems, and ensuring data quality. Ideal candidates will have a Bachelor's degree, 5+ years of experience, and strong analytical skills. Knowledge in finance and technology is preferred. This is an excellent opportunity to work in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience in business-critical web applications.
• Demonstrated success delivering full-stack applications end-to-end.
• Familiarity with fixed-income securities and credit instruments.

Responsibilities

• Build full-stack applications across various platforms.
• Integrate third-party systems and migrate legacy applications.
• Own data quality and support across business teams.

Skills

Python

.NET

C#

SQL

REST APIs

Git

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Azure

AWS

Snowflake

Databricks

Job description

We are a specialized technology staffing agency supporting professional and financial services companies. Why do we stand out in technology staffing? We listen and act as advisors for our candidates on how they can best add value, find interesting projects, and pave a path for career advancement. We advocate for the best pay, diversity in tech, and the best job fit for every candidate we place.

Our client, an investment firm, is seeking a Full Stack Developer to join their team in Los Angeles, CA, Dallas, TX, or New York, NY!

Responsibilities

• Build full-stack applications across the credit, private credit, and structured products platforms — backend services, APIs, data pipelines, and modern web front ends used by various business teams across the firm.
• Integrate third-party systems including Geneva (portfolio accounting), market data vendors, CRM platforms, and administrative platforms, design clean, well-tested adapters and reconciliation logic.
• Participate in the Migration of legacy .NET/C# applications and SSRS reports to modern, scalable architectures (TypeScript/React front ends, Python or .NET services, cloud-deployed) with responsive UX across desktop and mobile.
• Own data quality end-to-end - ingestion, normalization, validation, and lineage - for firmwide positions, partnering with the data management team on governance and controls.
• Build reporting and BI spanning Tableau dashboards, internal web tooling, investor reporting, and ad-hoc requests for portfolio composition and DDQ responses.
• Translate business needs into engineering — gather requirements directly from PMs, analysts, risk, IR, and operations; document functional and technical specs; write clear UAT plans and lead testing.
• Ship like an engineer - write tests, use source control (GIT/TFS), open clean PRs, manage tickets in DevOps, deploy through CI/CD, and monitor what you ship in production.
• Use AI coding assistants well - accelerate delivery, reduce boilerplate, and improve code quality, while applying the verification, security, and review standards described later.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from a top-tier university in computer science, mathematics, physics, or another quantitative or hard-science discipline.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including production ownership of business-critical web applications.
• Experience at a technology firm; capital markets, hedge fund, asset manager, investment bank, or financial technology vendor strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated success delivering full-stack applications end-to-end, from requirements through production deployment and ongoing support.
• Familiarity with fixed-income securities, bank loans, and credit instruments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience at a credit-focused hedge fund or alternative asset manager.
• Exposure to Advent Geneva or comparable portfolio accounting systems.
• Experience building data lakes / lakehouses and modern ELT pipelines (Snowflake, Databricks).
• Experience with TFS or other enterprise source control platforms.

Technical Skills — Core

• Backend: extensive experience with Python or .NET and C#; comfort with REST APIs, asynchronous services, and integration patterns.
• Data: strong SQL skills (window functions, query tuning, set-based thinking); experience with relational databases; exposure to NoSQL/document stores a plus.
• Source control & tooling: Git (or TFS), CI/CD, TFSDevOps , Confluence, unit and integration testing.
• Cloud: experience deploying and operating services on Azure or AWS is a plus.

General Skills

• Strong analytical and practical problem-solving skills; you reason from first principles and verify assumptions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; able to explain technical work to PMs and senior executives.
• Self-starter with strong work ethic; comfortable juggling multiple workstreams under deadline pressure.
• Detail-oriented, with high standards for code quality, data accuracy, and operational discipline.
• Team player who collaborates well across technical and non-technical groups.