Sr Software Engineer

About the role

We are seeking an experienced and hands-on full stack developer Sr / Lead Engineer to join our Asset Management – Investment Technology team in New York City. This role will play a critical part in modernising and supporting core investment platforms, with a focus on scalable cloud-based architecture, full stack delivery and robust engineering practices. You will work across investment technology stacks, engage directly with global stakeholders across investment, operations, products and wider technology teams and help drive technology solutions that support portfolio management and trading.

Responsibilities

• Drive full stack application development using modern technologies across cloud-native and hybrid architectures.
• Design and implement scalable APIs with strong security, monitoring and logging frameworks.
• Develop rich UI components using frameworks such as React or Angular.
• Manage AWS-based infrastructure components and CI/CD pipelines (CloudFormation, Lambda, ECS, S3, RDS, etc.).
• Own the production environment operations and applications; review and approve all changes before deployment into production.
• Collaborate with business and product teams to shape requirements and translate them into technical specifications and delivery plans.
• Interface with vendors (e.g., Blackrock Aladdin, Snowflake, etc.) for issue resolution, feature enhancements and to ensure robust system integration.
• Continuously seek automation opportunities to improve team efficiency.
• Execute and/or oversee the creation of low-level design documents (including code samples/outlines) and detailed engineering specifications based on complex business, user, and non-functional requirements (e.g., performance, reliability, balance, and controls).
• Write code that adheres to standards, procedures, and techniques; maintain integrity of existing program logic according to specifications.
• Complete deliverables using the Software Development Life-Cycle (SDLC).
• Partner with the business and project team to gather requirements and fully understand project goals, then use this information to effectively plan and lead the development process.
• Participate in project design walk-throughs; evaluate interrelationships between applications and design for effective interfaces between interrelated applications/systems; appropriately address failure scenarios in design work.
• Proactively review, plan and execute corrective action in response to production support issues, as required.
• Lead the code review process to ensure development work adheres to standards and specifications, including peer review and external code review.
• Write and/or revise system design documentation and operations documentation; provide required input into operation support manuals and user guides; create and properly archive all project-related documentation.
• Ensure all code is effectively unit tested prior to release to the quality assurance team; resolve all unit test issues in a timely manner.
• Assist the quality assurance team in identifying test cases and in creating/mining test data to enable thorough testing of all development deliverables.
• Respond to all inquiries and issues in a timely manner as the developed code/program moves through the testing process and into production; approve code to be put into production.
• Provide oversight, mentorship, and technical leadership to a development team consisting of employees, contractors, and vendor partner resources to ensure timely execution of project deliverables.
• Provide governance oversight to ensure adherence to development strategy, standards, tools, and procedures; guide teams to consistently apply appropriate development principles and standards during all phases of the development life-cycle.
• Conduct annual asset health and security assessments; improve health of system assets by identifying enhancements to improve performance, reliability, and resource consumption.
• Track standards exceptions (e.g., security gaps) to ensure they are addressed in a planful and timely manner.
• Evaluate, troubleshoot, and lead root-cause analysis for production issues and system failures; determine corrective action and improvements to prevent recurrence.
• Provide implementation/production support as required.
• Maintain up-to-date skills in software development technologies and a broad understanding of the business, business needs, and how applications/assets drive and support the business.
• Provide expertise in the selection and implementation of development tools and best practices, as well as recommendations on priority and asset investments.
• Establish and maintain productive working relationships with business partners and project teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience with at least 3 years in a lead role.
• Strong command of full stack development: JavaScript (React/Angular), Node.js or Java/.NET/Python and SQL.
• Hands-on experience with AWS architecture and services (Glue, Lambda, API Gateway, IAM, S3, CloudWatch, etc.).
• CI/CD tools: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Strong API development and integration experience.
• Experience with testing frameworks (Jest, Cypress, Selenium).

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience working in Asset Management, Investment Banking or Wealth Management.
• Knowledge of front-office platforms and workflows: SMA, OMS, PMS and risk engines.
• Experience with SMA/ETF platforms and fund lifecycle processes.
• Familiarity with Snowflake, Python and event-driven architecture.
• Exposure to regulatory reporting, ESG data pipelines or performance attribution systems.

Pay

The estimated base salary for this role is $155,000 – $197,000 per year. We have a pay-for-performance compensation philosophy. Your initial total compensation may vary based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and geographical work location. In addition, most of our roles are eligible for variable pay in the form of bonus, commissions, and/or long-term incentives depending on the role.