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Lead Engineer, Execution Technology

This technical lead builds Balyasny’s next execution platform while mentoring engineers. The work combines trading algorithms, concurrent Java systems and ownership of delivery.

What you’d work on

Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.

Design execution algorithms and distributed services
Lead projects from architecture to production rollout
Reduce latency and strengthen system resilience
Mentor engineers and review code and design decisions

What they ask for

Required

Fifteen or more years of financial Java development
Advanced concurrency and lock-free programming
Distributed-system engineering
Technical project leadership
Engineer mentoring
Ability to maintain C# systems

Education: No degree requirement is specified.
Experience: 1Five or more years of Java development for trading or finance.
Languages and tools: Java
C#

How to prepare

Explain an execution-system architecture and its latency budget
Demonstrate concurrency choices under failure and load
Prepare an example of leading a trading-platform migration

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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with Balyasny Asset Management and doesn’t handle applications.