Software Engineer

The Opportunity

As a Software Engineer at Nascent, you’ll translate domain problems into production-grade front-office software that enables the business to move quickly across global markets. You’ll partner with quantitative researchers, traders, and other engineers to design, implement, and support systems that make new opportunities actionable: from feature work and integrations to scaling core infrastructure. You’ll actively contribute to architecture and design discussions, drive projects end-to-end, and improve the reliability, test coverage, and observability of systems already in production.

You will thrive here if you take ownership and get energized by both building and refining systems: you identify problems, propose pragmatic solutions, and follow them through to production. You like working in small, cross-functional squads and enjoy clear, constructive communication, whether that’s pairing on a design, reviewing code, or writing crisp runbooks. You’re comfortable with ambiguity, can deep-dive into unfamiliar tech or data, and prefer building guardrails (tests, automation, observability) over adding ceremony. Above all, you care about craftsmanship and continuous improvement: practice, iterate, share what you learn, and help raise the bar for the whole team.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with quantitative researchers and traders to understand business needs and translate them into robust software solutions
• Develop and support production-grade front-office software to enable business to rapidly embrace new opportunities in global markets
• Actively engage with other developers to facilitate discussions on code implementation, testing and resolve architecture and design issues
• Drive projects and lead new initiatives while maintaining and improving existing infrastructure
• Stay current on new technologies and approaches, identifying opportunities to improve workflows and system capabilities

About you

• You thrive in ambiguity and less-structured environments and feel comfortable building structure and executing your own plans
• Passionate about building elegant, efficient solutions and learning deeply about financial markets
• You’re naturally curious and can independently deep-dive into unfamiliar tools or topics.
• Excellent analysis and problem solving skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Experience

• 1-3 years of professional software engineering experience in a front-office environment
• Experience building scalable and performant software using software engineering best practices
• Experience with data manipulation and analytics libraries (Pandas, Numpy, Polars, SQL)
• Business exposure to the financial markets, trading systems and quantitative research workflows preferred

About Nascent

Founded in 2020, Nascent exists to build, expand, and capture opportunity, in open markets and permissionless technologies. Building from a base of permanent capital, we deploy assets across a range of both liquid and long-term strategies that ensure we are among the most active users of the open financial system we are helping to build. We’ve backed 100+ early-stage teams that we believe can change markets and expand what’s possible. At Nascent, we combine that venture + market pedigree with product-grade engineering to turn research into revenue: experiments that ship fast, are evaluated rigorously, and move P&L. We focus on models, low-latency infrastructure, and resilient systems that compound performance over time.

Our Team & Culture

We’re an interdisciplinary team of engineers, quants, and operators who treat skill-building like a sport. The culture is competition + curiosity: push to win, share learnings, and iterate publicly through red-teams, internal games, and post-mortems. Autonomy isn’t a perk — it’s how we ship. Day-to-day you’ll be in 2-pizza squads with end-to-end ownership, maker calendars, and a Decision SLA of <24 hours. We prefer guardrails over ceremony and measure success by repeatable edges and measurable outcomes.

Principles that drive our team & work

• Compete to win
• Explore, experiment, play
• Always be building
• Seek and speak truth
• Own your shit.

What We Offer

• Day-0 keys to models, data, and compute; you start experimenting from day one.
• Competitive total comp with strong bonus upside tied to performance.
• Remote-first, distributed team with frequent in-person sprints and retreats.
• Hardware & home-office stipend, conference and learning budgets.
• Comprehensive health benefits (medical/dental/vision), life insurance.
• 16 weeks fully-paid parental leave + supported return to work.
• Retirement matching, open vacation policy, flexible hours.
• On-call compensation, strong SRE/runbook culture, and time for focused work.
• A paved road from prototype → CI/CD → production telemetry and evaluation.

We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome diverse perspectives.