Beacon Platform was founded in 2014 by Kirat Singh and Mark Higgins, industry leaders in building and designing enterprise-scale trading, analytics, and risk management platforms. Our products enable financial institutions of all sizes to operationalize front-office development at enterprise scale on the cloud. The Platform consists of Beacon Front Office Suite for cross-asset management of trades, positions and risk, and Beacon Core, an integrated development and operating platform that enables quants and software engineers to collaboratively develop and continuously deploy business solutions. Beacon's open architecture and transparent source-code model empower clients to achieve their business goals while maintaining unparalleled ownership of the full technology stack.
Job Title: Foundations Engineer Intern
Beacon Platform's Front Office Suite provides a wide array of applications, market models, and cross asset pricing and risk analytics built atop core Beacon Platform services. Your job will be to build, improve, and extend these components as part of a collaborative project with our team of financial developers. You will also write and improve documentation, lead presentations and provide training on what you build to your colleagues at Beacon and our clients.
Purpose of Job
Dive into Beacon's foundations for providing our clients with front office components. Write, test and deliver high quality code for components such as Real Time Risk, Deal modeling, and risk reporting. Work with clients to adapt and customize our core cloud-hosted Trading Risk Management platform to address their needs.
Responsibilities:
- Write, test, implement and maintain components for the FOS Foundations team.
- Participate in code reviews and provide technical feedback to the team.
- Collaborate with internal teams to deliver high quality APIs.
Essential Criteria:
- Fundamentals of software engineering such as data structures and algorithms.
- Some proficiency in Python.
- Exposure to multiple programming languages and paradigms.
- Familiarity with SQL and NoSQL database technologies
- Familiarity with cloud computing platforms such as AWS or Azure is a plus.
About Beacon Platform:
Beacon is revolutionizing the financial services industry by empowering our clients' quantitative developer teams and business users like no other platform provider. With the Beacon platform, financial institutions of all sizes can leverage our 20+ years of experience in building enterprise-scale trading, analytics, and risk management platforms at some of the most successful financial institutions in the world. In addition to applications for front and middle office users, the Beacon platform includes cloud-based, secure sandbox infrastructure, a full suite of developer tools, and transparent source code to give our clients unparalleled power to own the full stack and achieve their business goals. Beacon was founded in 2014 by the senior technologists who worked with SecDB at Goldman Sachs and created Athena at JP Morgan and Quartz at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Beacon has over 140 employees with offices in New York, London, and Tokyo. www.beacon.io
Beacon does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, or based on an individual's status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state or local law. Beacon encourages applications from minorities, women, the disabled, protected veterans and all other qualified applicants.
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