Systems Developer
Top Vitae · Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape
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Responsibilities
- Data Management & Governance Applications
- Building and maintaining the data pipelines and instrument schema that underpin every other workflow. This includes custom integrations with management companies, administrators, and platforms; LLM-enhanced instrument mapping; and ensuring data is interoperable, available, and trustworthy across the business.
- Portfolio Rebalance & Compliance Applications
- Developing the systems that monitor portfolios against mandated rules and regulatory requirements, and that support trade construction, pre trade checks, and post-trade verification. The work spans API-first integrations with order management systems and external administrators.
- Regulatory Reporting Applications & Workflows
- Building scalable reporting capabilities from industry-standard reports, regulatory submissions, to custom reports for clients, DFMs and platforms. Designing report generation to be reproducible, auditable, and fast.
Requirements
- 1–3 years software development experience
- Related tertiary qualification
- Strong backend and frontend engineering fundamentals
- Comfortable working across the stack and learning new tools quickly
- Curiosity about asset management, fintech, or both
- Strong written and verbal communication
- Protobufs — schema definition language for all data contracts
- gRPC / gRPC Web — transport layer between services and to the browser
- Go (Golang) — primary backend language
- Vue & TypeScript — primary frontend framework
- Cloud-native infrastructure — Google Cloud Platform
- LLM-enhanced workflows — selectively applied where they earn their keep
Advantageous
- Experience with Go, TypeScript, or gRPC
- Exposure to financial services, fund administration, or regtech
- Prior work with cloud-native architectures (GCP, AWS, or Azure)
Please consider your application unsuccessful should you nor receive a response within 2 weeks of applying.