Senior Software Engineer

Houston, TX, US • Posted 27 days ago • Updated 27 days ago
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Skills

  • SOFTWARE ENGINEER
  • DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
  • PYTHON
  • AWS
  • API
  • FINANCIAL MARKETS
  • RISK MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
  • WORKFLOWS
  • NETWORKING
  • ENERGY TRADING
  • ARCHITECTING
  • DELIVERING
  • PROGRAMMING
  • MONITORING
  • DESIGN

Summary

Founded in 2001, Optima Global Solutions Inc., brings over 2 decades of experience and expertise in facilitating IT transformation within industries ranging from higher education and government to manufacturing and financial services. Sporting scalable and diverse business solutions expertise along with deep-domain based resourcing capabilities, Optima has a specialization in Automation and AI, Strategic Staffing and Custom Solutions Development, focusing on the core pillars of process, people, strategy and transformation.

Currently, we are hiring for the following position;

Senior Software Engineer

Overview: We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer to join the team building a next generation trading and risk management platform. This is a hands-on engineering role where you will design, architect, and develop enterprise-grade distributed systems running on AWS.

The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise in Python, strong AWS cloud architecture, and direct industry experience in commodities, energy trading, financial markets, or risk management systems.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Design and implement cloud-native, distributed systems supporting trading, P&L, risk, and market data workflows.
  • Build scalable, fault-tolerant backend services and APIs using Python and modern AWS tooling.
  • Translate complex trading, pricing, and risk requirements into technical designs and system components.
  • Partner with architects, product managers, and domain stakeholders to align system capabilities with business needs.
  • Contribute to platform architecture decisions including data models, service boundaries, event streams, and integration patterns.
  • Drive best practices around testing, observability, security, and operational excellence.
  • Mentor engineers and contribute to code reviews, design reviews, and technical standards.

Required Qualifications:
  • 10+ years of experience architecting and delivering enterprise-grade, distributed systems.
  • Expert-level proficiency in Python, including APIs, asynchronous programming, microservices, and distributed system patterns.
  • Extensive AWS experience, such as EKS/ECS, Lambda, SQS/SNS, API Gateway, IAM, cloud networking, monitoring, and logging.
  • Mandatory domain experience in commodities or energy trading, financial markets, or risk systems—including at least one of:
    • Front Office trading
    • Risk & P&L systems
    • Trade capture
    • Market data platforms
    • Risk management systems
  • Deep experience building high-performance, real-time or near-real-time systems used in mission critical trading environments.

Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience modernizing legacy trading or risk systems into cloud-native architectures.
  • Knowledge of event-driven architecture, streaming (Kafka/Kinesis), or high-throughput pricing pipelines.
  • Familiarity with quantitative libraries or risk analytics frameworks.
  • Background collaborating with traders, quants, risk managers, or market data teams.
MUST HAVES:
  • 10+ years of experience architecting and delivering enterprise-grade, distributed systems.
  • Strong proficiency in Python with extensive AWS experience.
  • Mandatory domain expertise in commodities or energy trading, financial markets, or risk management systems, including Front Office, Risk, P&L, Trade Capture, and Market Data platforms.
Interested candidates, please apply online with a detailed resume and contact information.

Thank you.
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  • Dice Id: 10107417
  • Position Id: 26-00010
  • Posted 27 days ago

Company Info

About Optima Global Solutions

Optima Global Solutions, Inc. provides solutions, services and consulting resources that help progressive organizations automate their internal business processes. This results in increased efficiency, lower operating costs, fewer processing errors, greater employee productivity, improved reliability and accuracy for their stakeholders, customers, employees, vendors, and business partners.

Optima builds and optimizes Intelligent Automation Solutions that combine intelligent data capture with business process management best practices to streamline your business operations and increase your bottom line. This includes accounts payable processing, employee onboarding, expense tracking, sales order processing, vendor management, and custom applications.

Leveraging Kofax Intelligent Automation Platform, Optima solutions eliminate manual data entry inconsistencies and backlogs while adding controls to ensure compliance and analytics to measure success.

Optima’s Consulting Services practice provides our clients with highly productive IT professionals from a pool of the best and most talented technology resources based in the USA. Their specialists are available to assist on a short or long-term basis, offering their domain and technical knowledge. The practice focuses on providing On-demand Consulting, Contract-to-Hire, and Permanent Placement IT resources that are local and highly experienced, often with niche technology skills; typically filling the positions other vendors are unable to fill.

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