Software Engineer at Garda Capital Partners
New York, NY
$150,000–$175,000
Jul 16, 2026
New York, NY
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A software engineering role within a risk-focused team at a financial firm, building and maintaining systems used by risk managers to monitor exposure, P&L, and portfolio risk across fixed-income and interest-rate derivative portfolios. Day-to-day work spans data pipelines, quantitative analytics, and front-end tooling, using C# and Python alongside microservices, containerization, and relational databases. Suits engineers with full-stack development experience and an interest in capital markets or risk management.
Mid level · 4+ years · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA · Bachelor's required · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 320 people in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (data scientists). range 190–490
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $103,548–$176,968).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The title carries no seniority level; the 4+ years requirement and scope (independent delivery on a team, full-stack services) support a Mid-level classification.
Docker and Kubernetes appear together under Qualifications as 'Docker and/or Kubernetes' — emitted as a single required skill (Docker) with Kubernetes as an alternative, since only one is needed to satisfy the gate.
Oracle and PostgreSQL are listed together as the preferred relational database pair; emitted as one required skill (Oracle) with PostgreSQL as an alternative.
gRPC and Parquet appear in the Qualifications section with 'Familiarity with' language, which signals a softer gate; treated as preferred rather than hard requirements.
SciPy, Polars, and DuckDB appear in the Qualifications section within a parenthetical 'etc.' list alongside the required NumPy/pandas; they are treated as preferred given the open-ended framing.
Risk analytics / fixed income domain knowledge is explicitly called 'a plus' and JavaScript/React is explicitly 'a plus' — both treated as preferred.
No compensation range is stated in the posting.
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