The role
Job description
Software Engineer — Fixed Income Applications
About Millennium
Millennium is a global, diversified alternative investment firm, founded in 1989. Defined by evolution, innovation and focus, Millennium’s mission is to deliver results for our investors.
Our people are empowered with both independence and support: the autonomy to pursue ideas with conviction and the backing of a global network committed to collaboration, disciplined risk management and continuous learning. With opportunities to deepen expertise and accelerate development, talent at Millennium is equipped to adapt, evolve and build lasting impact over time. Discover how transformative growth accelerates impact.
Meet the Team
The Fixed Income Applications Development team is part of Millennium’s Information Technology organization, which develops flexible, scalable technology and advanced proprietary systems to support the firm’s active, multi-manager business model. The team builds and supports the technical infrastructure behind a pricing engine used by more than 300 portfolio teams, supporting a broad range of financial products and integrating live streaming and ETL data with downstream analytics, risk, and trading platforms.
What You'll Do
- Build, enhance, and support Java-based applications and technical infrastructure for a fixed-income pricing engine used across the firm.
- Develop pricing support for a broad range of financial products, including bonds, futures, options, FX, deposits, swaps, commodities, credit products, and equities.
- Integrate live streaming and ETL data providers to enable reliable pricing dissemination to analytics, risk, and trading platforms.
- Own the full software development lifecycle, from requirements gathering and design through implementation, production releases, and ongoing support.
- Partner directly with business users and technology teams to understand requirements and deliver practical technical solutions.
- Deliver high-quality, maintainable code within tight release cycles.
- Take ownership of projects and proactively identify opportunities to improve the team’s broader technical infrastructure.
- Build product and business knowledge to independently clarify requirements in the absence of dedicated business analyst support.
What You Bring
- Three to five years of professional experience in the Java ecosystem.
- Experience developing applications with relational databases.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with business users and technology partners.
- A results-oriented approach and the ability to deliver high-quality code within short timelines.
- Strong critical-thinking skills, sound judgment, and a proactive ownership mindset.
- Experience with at least one of the following: event-streaming technologies such as Kafka or RabbitMQ; distributed caching technologies such as Hazelcast, Redis, or Memcached; or multithreading, algorithms, and data structures.
- Familiarity with fixed-income products, JUnit testing, Spring and/or Spring Boot, full-stack web development, or financial-market data feeds such as Bloomberg or Refinitiv is a plus.