Mission
Own the BrightFlow live-trading engineering path — backtest infrastructure, signal pipelines, IBKR / Alpaca integrations, and the operational discipline that lets real money flow through our code.
Responsibilities
- Own the live-trading code path end-to-end, including pre-trade risk
- Build and maintain the backtest framework and signal evaluation harness
- Operate IBKR and Alpaca integrations under strict reliability SLOs
- Establish the trading-system observability stack and incident runbooks
- Partner with ML engineers on signal R&D and model deployment
- Codify the dual-control / approval pattern for any live-trading change
- Lead post-incident reviews for live-trading events
Required qualifications
- 7+ years software engineering; 3+ years working on production trading systems
- Deep Python (asyncio, NumPy, pandas) and strong systems sense
- Hands-on experience with at least one broker API (IBKR, Alpaca, FIX)
- Track record operating real-money trading code
Preferred qualifications
- Prior Staff or Principal title at a hedge fund or prop firm
- Experience with low-latency Python or one systems language (Rust, C++)
- Background in market microstructure or execution algos
- Florida or NYC-metro base