Senior Software Engineer, Investment Systems

Job Overview

The Core Investment Systems team is responsible for developing technology solutions that support Arrowstreet Capital’s investment services and operations. We leverage technology to automate business processes using a combination of custom development solutions and packaged platforms. The team provides mission critical capabilities to our business users, offering solutions essential to the firm’s ability to deliver sustained alpha and meet our fiduciary commitment to our investors. We manage hundreds of portfolios for institutional clients in many geographies.

Responsibilities

• Engage with business and technology leaders to understand strategy, articulate technology options, evaluate tradeoffs, and influence key decisions.
• Provide technical leadership by mentoring team members and leading projects.
• Build new functionality and enhancements to systems currently supporting our systematic investment process.
• Develop a strong understanding of the flow of our investment data and identify opportunities for greater automation, performance enhancements and increased resiliency.
• Accelerate the migration of older systems to modern, cloud-native platforms that leverage modern compute and data models (e.g., containerization, serverless), and drive the adoption, design, and implementation of cloud-native technology solutions.
• Automate the software development, testing and deployment life cycle for investment process applications.
• Support production escalations with urgency.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7+ years professional experience in software engineering.
• Minimum 5+ years of experience with cloud services (AWS, GCP, Azure), with AWS preferred.
• Strong knowledge of databases and data manipulation languages and platforms (SQL, Iceberg, Spark, Pandas/Polars, etc.).
• Proven track record of adoption, design and implementation of scalable solutions.
• Hands-on experience building and supporting mission-critical production systems.
• Demonstrated drive to take ownership and initiative in a complex technical role.
• Good debugging and problem-solving skills; knowledge of automated testing.
• Focus on delivering value with persistent efforts to improve business processes through greater system performance and resilience.
• Outstanding communication, organization, and collaboration.
• Experience building solutions in the asset management or financial services industry is a plus.

Pay

The base salary range for this position is $115,000 to $325,000 per year.

Benefits

The determination of a successful candidate’s base salary placement within the listed range will vary based on the candidate’s relevant experience and qualifications (which may also include relevant certifications, credentials and other education), the job responsibilities and scope, the commensurate resulting level of the position and other relevant factors. The listed range is also an estimate, and additional information regarding base salary and other elements of total compensation offered by Arrowstreet Capital to successful applicants will be communicated during the recruitment process.

About Arrowstreet Capital

Arrowstreet Capital is a Boston-based systematic investment firm that manages global equity portfolios for institutional investors around the world. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, genetic information, age, pregnancy, medical condition, disability, veteran or military status, marital status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.