Senior Operating Platform Engineer

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Company Overview Soros Fund Management LLC (SFM) is a global asset manager and family office founded by George Soros in 1973. With $28 billion in assets under management (AUM), SFM serves as the principal asset manager for the Open Society Foundations, one of the world's largest charitable foundations dedicated to advancing justice, human rights, and democracy. Distinct from other investment platforms, SFM thrives on agility, acting decisively when conviction is high and exercising patience when it's not. With permanent capital, a select group of major clients, and an unconstrained mandate, we invest opportunistically with a long-term view in a wide range of strategies and asset classes, including public and private equity and credit, fixed income, foreign exchange, and alternative assets. Our teams operate with autonomy, while cross-team collaboration strengthens our conviction and empowers us to capitalize on market dislocations. At SFM, we foster an ownership mindset, encouraging professionals to challenge the status quo, innovate, and take initiative. We prioritize development, enabling team members to push beyond their roles, voice bold ideas, and contribute to our long-term success. This culture of continuous growth and constructive debate fuels innovation and drives efficiencies. Our impact is measured by both the returns we generate and the values we uphold, from environmental stewardship to social responsibility. Operating as a unified team across geographies and mandates, we remain committed to our mission, ensuring a meaningful, lasting impact. Headquartered in New York City with offices in Greenwich, Garden City, London, and Dublin, SFM employs 200 professionals. Team Overview The Operating Platform Technology function designs, builds, and maintains the platforms and data infrastructure that support firm-wide operations, trading compliance, accounting, financial reporting, management reporting, and compensation processes. The team interfaces closely with Operations, Treasury, Compliance, Finance, Tax, Legal, HR, and senior management. Job Overview We are seeking a senior full-stack software engineer to work on modernization of the Operating Platform. This role combines hands-on engineering leadership and stakeholder partnership. The senior developer will be responsible for the design, reliability, scalability, and evolution of the Operating Platform systems. The ideal candidate is a strong senior developer who has experience in some or all off the following business streams: trading compliance, regulatory reporting, financial data, accounting workflows, and who can translate complex financial processes into robust, auditable, and production-grade systems. Major Responsibilities Design, build, and own full-stack applications across the Operating Platform - front-end interfaces, back-end services and APIs, and the data pipelines that support operations, compliance, accounting, and reporting workflows Drive the modernization of existing systems, re-architecting legacy components into scalable, cloud-native solutions deployed on AWS and Kubernetes Design and embed AI agent-based workflows into the platform - automating manual operational, compliance, and reporting processes while keeping humans in the loop where oversight and auditability demand it Partner directly with stakeholders across Compliance, Operations, Treasury, Finance, Tax, Legal, and HR to translate complex business and regulatory requirements into sound technical designs Build auditable, well-controlled systems with strong attention to data integrity, lineage, and access controls, given the sensitivity of financial and compensation data Diagnose and resolve production issues across the stack, and contribute to a stable, well-monitored cloud operating environment Participate in the evaluation and introduction of new technologies and approaches, including emerging AI and agentic tooling What We Value Extensive full-stack engineering experience (4+ years): modern front-end frameworks (e.g., Angular), back-end development (e.g., C#/.NET, Python), and both relational and analytical data stores (e.g., MS SQL Server, Snowflake) 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a demonstrated track record of delivering and operating production systems at scale Hands-on experience designing and deploying cloud-native applications, ideally on AWS, using containerization (Kubernetes), infrastructure-as-code, and modern CI/CD pipelines Experience building or integrating AI agent-based or LLM-powered workflows into production systems Experience building systems within financial services or asset management across some or all of the following: trading compliance, regulatory reporting, financial data, and accounting workflows Proven ability to design auditable, well-controlled systems that handle sensitive data Strong command of software architecture, API design, data modeling, and system integration Experien