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# Lead Software Engineer- Market Risk

- **Company:** The Testing Site
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Clean Code Principles, Artificial Intelligence, Code Review, Continuous Integration, Database Queries, Python (Programming Language), Runbook, Software Engineering, Data Logging, Large Language Models, Front End Software Development, Api Design
- **Published:** November 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25197_8c9f23e9158e8d12fe77ae060d085713

## About the Role

* Python required, with strong OO fundamentals and clean coding practices
 * Strong knowledge of the software development life cycle and Agile delivery
 * Experience building APIs and services and working with database querying languages
 * Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to converse with senior business stakeholders, quants, and technology leaders
 * Familiarity with Market Risk domain concepts, including VaR and Stress
 * Ability to use LLMs effectively; AI generalist mindset focused on practical value, * Familiarity with Athena or SecDB and related integration patterns
 * Exposure to modern front-end technologies
 * Banking and financial services domain exposure is a big plus
 * Experience improving engineering practices through code reviews, standards, and mentoring
 * Hands-on operational practices such as logging, metrics, tracing, and clear runbooks

## Description

* Lead ideation and problem framing, present options and trade-offs, and help teams converge on the right solutions
 * Stay hands-on in Python to design, implement, and productionize utilities and services that integrate with firmwide platforms, including Athena or SecDB
 * Use LLMs effectively as an AI generalist to speed up prototyping, documentation, code assistance, and operational support
 * Streamline manual steps and reduce cycle time through thoughtful automation and simplification
 * Uphold engineering standards across design, coding, testing, CI/CD, observability, documentation, and runbooks
 * Maintain operational stability with pragmatic monitoring, logging, and metrics
 * Communicate clearly across business stakeholders, quant teams, and technology teams; present demos and drive alignment
 * Foster a culture of collaboration, diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect; share best practices and improve team ways of working
 * Continuously learn, improve, and help others do the same, * You help shape the roadmap through clear thinking, practical ideas, and effective stakeholder dialogue
 * You deliver MVPs in weeks that reduce manual effort and improve productivity, then mature them into stable services
 * Your work improves reliability and supportability and is accompanied by clear documentation and runbooks
 * You elevate collaboration and communication across business, quants, and technology while modeling an inclusive, learning-oriented culture