About the RoleTITLE: Senior Software Engineer
TEAM: Investment Research Technology
LOCATION: Boston, MA
At Wellington Management our appetite for technology is insatiable. We recognize that the world is full of fascinating questions that will impact the future of companies, economies, financial markets, and entire industries. We want you to help us find answers to these questions by building and evolving our innovative, industry leading, technology platform.
We are seeking qualified candidates to join our expanding technology team. Together, you will not only dream up solutions to today's investment challenges, but you will build them to see real-life results. Technology needs are advancing, and this level of complexity requires a highly sophisticated well-managed technology platform that is built by people like you. This is your chance to build something incredible. We want you to think big, to solve challenges, and positively impact our clients.
JOB OVERVIEW
We are seeking a candidate for a
SeniorSoftware Engineer to join our
Research Technology team within
Investment Technology. You will work closely with other members of IT including other developers, business analysts, and QA engineers to design, develop, test, implement, and support solutions to meet business requirements, and will also interact with members of our Investment Platform in architecting world-class research and collaboration capabilities.
In this role, you will help drive the integration of
Generative AI (GenAI) and large language models (LLM) into investment research processes and workflows. This includes contributing to systems that leverage LLM-powered reasoning, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), enterprise-scale knowledge management, and intelligent automation to enhance research depth, improve discovery of information, and streamline the flow of insights across the investment lifecycle.
You will be faced with compelling challenges and encouraged to solve problems by using innovative techniques. You will work with and learn from exceptional technology and business professionals through cross-platform, data driven projects and assignments.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Contribute to the delivery of high-quality investment research and solutions, including participating in architecture, design, implementation, testing, deployment and support
- Work with business teams, engineers and business analysts to review and qualify business requirements, functional specifications, use cases, and test plans
- Participate in creation of new prototypes and develop new software components based on functional specifications across the full stack - services, web and mobile clients, infrastructure and back-end
- Coordinate with analysts, engineers, and QE resources to execute test plans and provide support during user acceptance testing
- Modify and enhance existing systems to incorporate new functionality and to optimize for performance and maintainability
- Author technical design and support documentation
QUALIFICATIONS
- 5 years demonstrated experience designing and developing web applications and services using JavaScript or other relevant enterprise technologies (e.g., Java, .Net)
- 5 years demonstrated experience designing and developing complex web services using REST, TypeScript, JavaScript/NodeJS, Jest, Java, Python or related technologies
- 5 years demonstrated experience designing and developing web applications using HTML5, CSS and modern UI frameworks such as React or Angular
- Experience with modern software development and testing methodologies such as Artifactory, GIT, and Jenkins CI
- Experience developing applications with AWS cloud technologies
- Intermediate-level experience with SQL
- Experience with various software development methodologies, such as Agile
- Familiarity leveraging AI in SDLC
- Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with a non-technical audience
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills
- Ability to manage conflicting priorities effectively
- Demonstrated ability to understand complex concepts and to learn quickly
- Ability and willingness to work effectively in a business-critical production environment
- Ability to work independently
- Ability and willingness to work in an energetic, fast-paced, team-oriented environment
- BS or BA degree in computer science, math, physics, statistics or another related subject
- Experience in a relevant financial domain is a plus
Not sure you meet 100% of our qualifications? That's ok. If you believe that you could excel in this role, we encourage you to apply and welcome a chance to review your background. We are dedicated to building and maintaining a diversified workforce and considering a broad array of candidates with a variety of skill, workplace experiences, and backgrounds.
At Wellington Management, our approach to compensation is designed to help us attract, inspire and retain the best talent in our industry. We strive to pay employees fairly and competitively across all levels and roles. Our approach to compensation considers all aspects of total compensation; all employees are eligible to receive salary, variable compensation, and benefits. The base salary range for this position is:
USD 80,000 - 150,000
This range takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered when making compensation decisions, including but not limited to skill sets; role; skills and experience; certifications; and education. This range is an estimate, and further details on salary and total compensation aspects will be shared with candidates during the recruitment process.
Base salary is only one component of Wellington's total compensation approach. Other rewards may include a discretionary Corporate Bonus and/ or Incentives, if eligible. In addition, we offer a comprehensive and high value benefit package to meet the unique needs of our employees and their families, and we are committed to fostering a flexible work environment that enables employees to thrive personally and professionally. Examples of our benefits include retirement plan, health and wellbeing, dental, vision, and pharmacy coverage, health savings account, flexible spending accounts and commuter program, employee assistance program, life and disability insurance, adoption assistance, back-up childcare, tuition/CFA reimbursement and paid time off (leave of absence, paid holidays, volunteer, sick and vacation time)
We believe that in person interactions inspire and energize our community and are essential to our culture. In support of this commitment, our employees work from our offices 4 days a week with flexibility to work remotely 1 day a week. We believe that this approach ultimately supports our mission to deliver investment excellence to our clients and their beneficiaries over the long term.
