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Join Ares as a Systems Engineer and shape the investment process with Rust & Python expertise.
Collaborate across teams, build core services, and drive innovation in fixed-income asset management.
Over the last 20 years, Ares’ success has been driven by our people and our culture. Today, our team is guided by our core values – Collaborative, Responsible, Entrepreneurial, Self-Aware, Trustworthy – and our purpose to be a catalyst for shared prosperity and a better future. Through our recruitment, career development and employee-focused programming, we are committed to fostering a welcoming and inclusive work environment where high-performance talent of diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives can build careers within this exciting and growing industry.
Summary:
We’re looking for a Systems Engineer with a passion for technology and asset management to join our Engineering Team. You’ll be building the systems through which our firm‑wide investment process runs. This role is ideally suited to an individual who wants to be involved in a tech‑focussed firm and brings systems experience as well as coding expertise in Rust and/or Python.
The Role:
In this varied role, you will be responsible for owning end-to-end systems deliveries to scale the firm across various business lines. You will help build the core services upon which Ares Systematic Credit investment process runs. These services cover a wide range of areas including reference data, trade management, position management and compliance. You will also integrate these core services with external parties such as middle office and fund administrators.
You will also have the great opportunity to collaborate with colleagues across the firm, including Portfolio Management, Operations and Compliance, as well as within your team of Systems, Quantitative and Platform Infrastructure Engineers so strong stakeholder management skills are important. Knowledge of products across the fixed income asset class, trade lifecycle, third party system integration, and operational processes are not essential but will be highly valued.
Your other technical responsibilities will include:
- Utilising, and contributing to, the Ares Systematic Credit software development toolkit, including source code control, CI/CD platform, test infrastructure, packaging, and deployment.
- Building common libraries and software infrastructure to support the above activities.
- Reviewing and testing of code and systems, to the standards defined in the Ares Systematic Credit software development process.
- Supporting production systems.
What we’re looking for:
- Desire to work as part of a team and strong communication skills.
- Eagerness and ability to learn and develop expertise in new technologies and fixed income (if no prior exposure)
- Ability to write high quality Python code.
- C++ &/or RUST coding experience/interest in coding in Rust is highly desirable
- An understanding of the importance of testing.
- Strong stakeholder management skills and related business analysis.
- Ability to parse problems and present solutions.
- Ownership for the code you write.
You may also have (but not essential):
- Server-side development experience.
- Experience with the fixed income asset class (credit, interest rates, bonds, CDS, and related derivatives)
- Experience working with SQL databases.
- Experience designing APIs.
- Experience with Rust
- Experience with Kubernetes
Reporting Relationships
Head of Systems Engineering
There is no set deadline to apply for this job opportunity. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the search is no longer active.