Job Overview
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-focused firm and brings systems experience as well as coding expertise in Rust and/or Python.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end systems deliveries to scale the firm across various business lines.
- Build core services upon which Ares Systematic Credit investment process runs, covering reference data, trade management, position management and compliance.
- Integrate core services with external parties such as middle office and fund administrators.
- Collaborate with colleagues across the firm, including Portfolio Management, Operations and Compliance, and within the Systems, Quantitative and Platform Infrastructure Engineering team; strong stakeholder management skills are essential.
- Utilise and contribute to the Ares Systematic Credit software development toolkit, including source code control, CI/CD platform, test infrastructure, packaging, and deployment.
- Build common libraries and software infrastructure to support the above activities.
- Review and test code and systems to the standards defined in the Ares Systematic Credit software development process.
- Support production systems.
Qualifications
- Strong communication skills and desire to work as part of a team.
- Ability to learn and develop expertise in new technologies and fixed income (if no prior exposure).
- Experience writing high-quality Python code.
- Experience or strong interest in C++ and/or Rust.
- Understanding of the importance of testing.
- Strong stakeholder management and business analysis skills.
- Ability to parse problems and present solutions.
- Ownership for the code you write.
- Optional: Server-side development experience.
- Optional: Experience with the fixed income asset class (credit, interest rates, bonds, CDS, and related derivatives).
- Optional: Experience working with SQL databases.
- Optional: Experience designing APIs.
- Optional: Experience with Rust.
- Optional: Experience with Kubernetes.
Reporting Relationship
Head of Systems Engineering
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Ares Management LLC is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, ethnicity, creed, sex, age, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, partnership status, sexual orientation, status regarding public assistance, military or veteran status, domestic violence victim status, gender identity and expression, transgender status, genetic information, status as unemployed, political affiliation or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. Ares Management will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.