Senior Software Engineer, Portfolio Management Engineering

at  Arrowstreet Capital

Job Overview
The Investment Technologies group is looking for an exceptional software developer for the front office optimization team. The optimizer team is a dynamic and innovating group of developers who are passionate about delivering cutting-edge solutions to business group. As a member of this team, you will have the opportunity to drive innovation, build software solutions, automate software pipelines, and diagnose and fix software issues for the critical systems that drive our investment capabilities. The ideal candidate is self-driven, team-oriented, and has a passion for improving software architecture and the development process.
Responsibilities

This role will be responsible for designing and implementing software solutions in the following areas:

• Full stack software development on an agile team
• Continuously deliver high quality code and work to identify potential areas for improvement
• Automate the software development, testing and deployment process
• Write unit tests and perform code reviews to ensure code quality and adhere to best practices
• Develop cloud-native applications and REST-based APIs and deploy them to AWS using modern cloud services.
• Embrace development best practices like continuous delivery, test automation, and containerized deployments
• Work closely with other groups including developers, DBAs, network engineers, and third party vendors / consultants
• Engage with business and technology leaders to understand the strategy, articulate solution options, evaluate tradeoffs, and influence key decisions
• Mentor Software Engineers to help with skill & knowledge development
• Create and maintain systems and support documentation that is thorough, complete, and of a professional caliber
• Stay up-to date with emerging trends and technologies in software development, and apply them to the projects

The ideal candidate is an experienced hands-on engineer with previous experience in building technology in the financial services industry, self-motivated, process-driven and a problem solver. This role is responsible for designing software solutions which take complex investment ideas and bring them to life. Collaboration with other development leads and teams and the broader IT team is a critical part of the success in this particular role.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or related field
• Minimum of 8 years of programming experience preferably in financial applications
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Strong background in modern architecture, data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented programming, and an understanding and adherence to SOLID design principles
• Experience with unit testing, isolation frameworks, and behavior driven development
• Experience with developing applications for cloud, preferably AWS.
• Experience with container technologies like Docker, Kubernetes
• Technology stack development experience in:
• AWS Services S3, Lambda, RDS, EC2 and EKS
• Server-side development in C# using .Net Core and Web API, REST API and or Python
• Web development using Angular or similar web technologies
• Back-end development using T-SQL
• Great communication & organizational skills, drive, energy, enthusiasm, maturity, and confidence.

Value-Add Experience & Competencies

• Experience with developing full stack financial applications
• Experience with messaging frameworks like RabbitMQ, Kafka, Pulsar
• Experience with NoSQL databases
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, with GitLab preferred
• Experience with the ELK stack
• Experience with high performance computing

We maintain a friendly, team-oriented environment and place a high value on professionalism, attitude and initiative.
We maintain a friendly, team-oriented environment and place a high value on professionalism, attitude and initiative

• Full stack software development on an agile team
• Continuously deliver high quality code and work to identify potential areas for improvement
• Automate the software development, testing and deployment process
• Write unit tests and perform code reviews to ensure code quality and adhere to best practices
• Develop cloud-native applications and REST-based APIs and deploy them to AWS using modern cloud services.
• Embrace development best practices like continuous delivery, test automation, and containerized deployments
• Work closely with other groups including developers, DBAs, network engineers, and third party vendors / consultants
• Engage with business and technology leaders to understand the strategy, articulate solution options, evaluate tradeoffs, and influence key decisions
• Mentor Software Engineers to help with skill & knowledge development
• Create and maintain systems and support documentation that is thorough, complete, and of a professional caliber
• Stay up-to date with emerging trends and technologies in software development, and apply them to the project