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Senior Engineer, Execution Technology

Balyasny’s execution technology team is hiring a senior Java engineer. The role leads delivery of trading algorithms and distributed platforms with demanding performance requirements.

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.

Build concurrent execution components.
Lead designs through rollout and support.
Tune latency and fault tolerance.
Mentor engineers and review architecture.

What they ask for

Required

Java trading systems
Concurrency
Lock-free programming
Distributed systems
Project leadership
Engineering mentorship

Education: No degree requirement stated.
Experience: The advertisement requests 10–15 or more years building financial/trading systems in Java.
Languages and tools: Java
C#

How to prepare

Benchmark concurrent order processing.
Compare lock-free and locking designs.
Design a resilient execution-service deployment.

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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.