Trade Engineer

TIAA

Trade Engineer developing and optimizing trading systems at Nuveen for efficient execution and reconciliation workflows. Collaborating with teams to ensure system performance and correctness.

Posted 7/2/2026full-timeNew York City • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesJuniorMid-Level💰 $145,000 - $200,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSDockerLinuxPostgresPythonRustSQLTerraformUnix

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, build, and maintain trading systems across C#, Python, and Rust
Develop low-latency order management and execution services, including pre- and post-trade checks, order generation, and algo selection
Build and optimize reconciliation pipelines that certify account status and surface breaks against custodial and internal data
Integrate with execution venues, custodians, and market data providers via FIX and APIs
Build and optimize data pipelines connecting custodial data, security master databases, and real-time market data feeds
Contribute to systems for monitoring, alerting, and observability to track execution quality and system health, and act on what the data reveals
Investigate and remediate issues across trade execution, allocation, and account positions, often under time pressure during market hours
Build internal services and assist in building UI components for managing trading workflow.
Write comprehensive unit and integration tests, and uphold engineering best practices around code review, CI/CD, and deployment safety

Requirements

What you’ll need

Minimum of 2+ years of software engineering experience building reliable and efficient trading systems
3+ years of software engineering experience preferred
Strong proficiency in C#, Python, and optionally Rust or C++
Solid grasp of concurrency, memory management, and performance profiling
Experience building and operating production backend services and APIs (REST and/or streaming)
Working knowledge of PostgreSQL and SQL for trading and market data
Experience with event-driven architectures and message queues
Experience with AWS, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines
Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code (CDK/Terraform) and observability tooling (Datadog)
Strong software engineering fundamentals: version control, code review, testing, and Unix/Linux systems
Experience in equities trading, algorithmic execution, and transaction cost analysis
Familiarity with real-time market data APIs (Polygon, Bloomberg, Reuters)
Understanding of portfolio management, trade reconciliation, and custodial operations
Meticulous attention to detail when operating systems that handle real capital
Background in fintech, asset management, or a quantitative trading environment.

Benefits

Comp & perks

superior retirement program
highly competitive health, wellness and work life offerings

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Hard Skills & Tools

C# ProgrammingPython ProgrammingRust ProgrammingPostgreSQLSQLConcurrencyPerformance ProfilingAPI DevelopmentUnit TestingIntegration Testing

Soft Skills

Attention to DetailProblem SolvingTime Management