Market Risk Software Engineer – Scale Cloud-Native Analytics

Mondrian Alpha; Connecticut; On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Mondrian Alpha, a global financial services firm, seeks a Software Engineer to join its Market Risk team in Connecticut. You will develop scalable risk analytics, APIs, and data pipelines, leveraging cloud-native architecture and modern engineering practices.

You will collaborate with researchers, traders, and risk managers to automate workflows and improve decision-making while delivering reliable, high-performance systems for a live trading environment.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of software architecture, CS fundamentals, data structures and CI/CD practices.
• Experience with modern software engineering methodologies and development practices.
• Background developing large-scale risk, portfolio, or analytics platforms, ideally within equities or multi-asset environments.
• Experience working in quantitative finance or a similarly technical financial environment.
• Familiarity with cloud technologies and cloud-native architecture.
• Experience developing user-facing applications with frameworks such as React or Angular.
• Strong problem-solving skills and an interest in building reliable, high-performance systems.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement quantitative methodologies to measure and understand market risk.
• Build scalable services and APIs for large risk datasets with reporting/visualization tools.
• Automate risk-management workflows including portfolio limits and monitoring.
• Design and maintain batch and real-time data pipelines for analytics.
• Expand the Market Risk platform in a cloud-first architecture.
• Improve performance and reliability of distributed analytics and compute workloads.
• Troubleshoot across systems supporting a live, automated trading environment.
• Collaborate with engineers, researchers, traders, risk managers on cross-functional initiatives.
• Support senior risk leadership to enhance day-to-day workflows and decision-making.

Skills

Software architecture

CI/CD

Cloud technologies

React/Angular

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in quantitative field

Tools

React

Angular

Job description

Mondrian Alpha, a global financial services firm, seeks a Software Engineer to join its Market Risk team in Connecticut. You will develop scalable risk analytics, APIs, and data pipelines, leveraging cloud-native architecture and modern engineering practices.

You will collaborate with researchers, traders, and risk managers to automate workflows and improve decision-making while delivering reliable, high-performance systems for a live trading environment.