Meet SIMON

SIMON Markets is a fast-growing and award-winning FinTech company, on the lookout for smart, collaborative talent to join our team.  

Originally founded within Goldman Sachs, SIMON Markets spun-out in December 2018 under the shared ownership and direction of seven leading financial institutions. Our team works to build transparency around complex, risk-managed financial products by way of a single, modern platform. Our platform provides financial advisors with access to multi-issuer solutions, a depth of educational tools, and advanced post-trade analysis that hasn’t before been possible.

By combining state-of-the art technology with the leadership of niche industry experts and an agile start-up mentality, SIMON is well-positioned to reshape our industry. We are leading the way in a space we helped create, we are passionate about pushing boundaries, and we are growing like crazy.

Join a Team with Limitless Potential

SIMON Engineering is a team of 25+ experienced developers, collaborating closely with our product and sales teams to continually improve and expand SIMON’s platform. Our challenge? Build something beautiful and powerful, unlike anything financial advisors have yet experienced. 

Our front-end team is building out our web and mobile presence using React, Redux, and Webpack, along with some very sophisticated data visualizations. Our back-end team is using Scala, Akka, Vert.x, Kafka and other open-source technologies to build a micro-services architecture that can scale to handle our ambitious roadmap. Our quantitative engineering team is researching and building novel financial strategies to widen our competitive advantage. Our dev-ops team is creating a development and production environment with Docker and Kubernetes to keep us nimble. 

Job description 

We are looking for outstanding Quantitative Engineers who can quickly grasp complex and fluid business problems and solve them with elegantly-designed, robust, reliable, highly-performant, and highly-readable code. If you love using the latest technologies, working on creative software projects, and/or thinking about innovative new business plans in your spare time, read on. 

Our engineers are world leaders in solving complex business problems using mathematics and engineering skills. We are working to aggressively expand SIMON’s platform and add several other managed-risk asset classes for which our technology can drive similarly revolutionary productivity gains in areas such as marketing, distribution, trading, analytics, and portfolio management. 

This is a unique opportunity to be an integral part of a high-growth, best-in-class, FinTech endeavor, and directly impact the forward trajectory of the firm’s success. 

We are looking for versatile, enthusiastic individuals, able to fluidly adapt to new challenges and problem solve in a fast-paced and collaborative environment.

Here are some examples of what you can expect: 

Responsibilities:  

• Collaborate daily with sales and product development teams
• Leverage open-source technologies—like Scala, Akka, and MongoDB—to build elegant features that SIMON platform users will love  
• Design and implement elegant code, models, and schema that capture the semantics of deeply complex financial instruments
• Write beautiful code that adheres to stringent coding and test standards  
• Collaborate with other quant engineers and researchers to make state-of-the-art pricing and analytics electronically accessible on the SIMON platform 
• Expand SIMON solutions to other product classes, as well as product issuers, wholesalers, and distributors  
• Use modern build tooling—like AWS, Docker, Jenkins, and Kubernetes—to quickly iterate on valuable features for our users  
• Cooordinate closely with sales and product development teams on a daily basis to push SIMON’s FinTech strategy and improve the overall profitability of our business  

 

Basic Qualifications:  

• Degree in Computer Science or related field  
• 2–4 years of experience with open-source technologies, object-oriented/ functional programming, and strong ability to write elegant, high-quality code  
• Experience working with large, multi-language codebases  
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills  

 

Preferred Qualifications:  

• Passionate about programming and cutting-edge technologies  
• Interest in FinTech entrepreneurship and learning about financial products and markets  
• Knowledge of the JVM and JVM languages, e.g., Scala, Java, and Kotlin
• Experience in functional programming and building scalable applications, ability to leverage toolkits like Akka or Vert.x is a plus
• MS or PhD research experience is a plus  

 

We offer a competitive salary and benefits, the chance work with a curated team of top-notch, highly creative talent, and a fun and agile work environment with many perks in the heart of New York City’s Chelsea district.