Senior Core Developer

Role Overview

We are seeking a Senior Core Developer who combines deep technical expertise with strong product intuition and stakeholder alignment. This role is central to the design and evolution of the firms internal core platform enabling the delivery of high-impact scalable software solutions across front middle and back-office teams.

The ideal candidate will be a product-oriented engineercomfortable working closely with business users to understand their workflows and pain points and delivering tooling frameworks and services that directly improve the speed and quality of internal application development. This is a high-ownership cross-functional role within a global fast-moving environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build internal core platform services (e.g. authentication user permissions UI frameworks data access layers) that power business-critical applications.

• Partner with PMs operations risk compliance investment teams and other enterprise-scale business functions (e.g. marketing or data platforms) to understand use cases prioritize features and deliver thoughtful well-scoped solutions.

• Own core components of the application stack including service orchestration observability error handling deployment pipelines and shared libraries.

• Define standards for application architecture frontend/backend patterns and platform onboarding for internal developer teams.

• Drive the delivery of reusable frameworks that reduce development time and promote consistency across teams.

• Collaborate with infrastructure data and security teams to ensure resilience security and scalability of platform components.

• Mentor engineers and champion best practices across product development testing and operational support.

• Design and integrate generative AI workflows vector databases and LLM-powered services to accelerate internal application development.

Qualifications

• 6 years of experience as a software or core platform engineer in complex high-performance environments (e.g. hedge funds fintech capital markets enterprise SaaS or large-scale data/AI platforms).

• Proven success delivering internal tooling or shared platforms with a clear focus on user needs and business alignment.

• Strong software engineering skills in Python; experience with C Java C# or other compiled languages a plus.

• Familiar with multi-threading concepts building high throughput low latency systems; experience with backend frameworks (e.g. FastAPI ).

• Hands-on experience with building cloud-native apps containerization (Docker) orchestration (Kubernetes) CI/CD (GitHub Actions ArgoCD Jenkins Spinnaker or equivalent tools) and cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred GCP experience welcome).

• Experience integrating generative AI and LLMs into modern technical solutions (e.g. LLM orchestration RAG embeddings vector databases).

• Familiarity with RBAC/ABAC microservice architecture and service mesh patterns.

• Excellent communication skills; ability to translate between technical and non-technical audiences and drive cross-functional initiatives.

Preferred Experience

• Experience working with non-technical stakeholders (e.g. operations risk compliance finance) to co-design workflows and applications.

• Exposure to low-code/no-code platforms or internal developer portals.

• Prior experience in building application platforms or shared component libraries in fast-growing organizations.

• Knowledge of operational or risk-related workflows in a hedge fund financial institution or similarly regulated/high-performance industries.

Compensation

Jain Global offers a total compensation package which includes a base salary discretionary bonus and comprehensive benefits. The estimated base salary range for this position is $190000 to $225000 which is specific to New York and may change in the future. When finalizing an offer we take into consideration an individuals experience level and the qualifications they bring to the role to formulate a competitive total compensation package.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer

As an employer we believe every individual brings with them unique diversity of thought and perspectives to meaningfully enrich perspectives of Jain Global teams to drive competitive performance. We believe an inclusive environment can yield exceptional contributions.