Senior Software Engineer – Equity Technology
Balyasny’s equity technology team builds portfolio and risk tools for investors. This engineer focuses on factor-risk calculations, scalable services and validation of analytical outputs.
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.
- Develop equity-risk analytics services.
- Reconcile risk calculations across datasets.
- Improve C# performance and service architecture.
What they ask for
Required
- C# or Java
- Software architecture
- Python
- Data-platform experience
- Technical leadership
Preferred
- Equities finance experience
- Education
- A computing or closely related degree; level unspecified.
- Experience
- At least eight years in professional software development.
- Languages and tools
- Markets
- equities
How to prepare
- Implement a factor-exposure calculation.
- Test numerical reconciliation between services.
- Profile a parallel analytics workload.
What to study
- Quantitative Data Engineering
- Empirical Asset Pricing and Factor Investing
- Portfolio Theory and Quantitative Investment
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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.