Lead Software Engineer

Job Overview

The Business and Client Technologies team are responsible for developing technology solutions supporting Arrowstreet Capital’s Marketing & Reporting, Funds, Finance, Client Management and HR teams.

We leverage technology to automate business processes introducing solutions using a combination of custom development and packaged platforms.

The Finance IT Team provides services and capabilities to our business users that are essential to the firm’s ability to deliver sustained alpha and to meet our fiduciary commitment to our clients.

This team supports the Finance department in their computing, tracking and reporting of the Firm’s Revenue along with purchasing and general ledger management.

Arrowstreet Capital is seeking a Senior Engineer to join a highly talented and motivated group of engineers, who build and maintain applications that support the Finance team at Arrowstreet.

This is a critical role that brings significant value to our clients and internal business partners.

The ideal candidate is a self-driven, team-oriented, accomplished hands-on engineer with previous experience in building technology in the financial services industry, who has a passion for improving software architecture and the development process.

They are a creative problem-solver who enjoys working on complex problems as part of a team. They are a leader who drives technology adoption.

Collaboration with other development leads and teams within Business and Client Technologies and the broader IT team is a critical part of the success in this role.

Bring your passion for technology, delivery and value-add to our collaborative team and put your experience building cloud-native business-oriented solutions to a challenging, rewarding purpose.

Responsibilities

We are looking for an experienced full stack developer to join one of our agile teams who will be responsible for the following :

• Engage with business and technology leaders to understand strategy, articulate and implement solution options, evaluate tradeoffs, and influence key decisions
• Lead adoption of cloud-native technology designs and solutions
• Deliver high-quality value-added enhancements to existing platforms
• Automate the software development, testing and deployment process
• Participate as an engaged member of an agile development team
• Collaborate with other groups including developers, DBAs, network engineers, quality assurance and third party vendors / consultants
• Embrace development best practices including continuous delivery, test automation, containerization
• Create and maintain documentation that is thorough, complete, and of a professional caliber
• Support business hours production escalations with urgency

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field
• Great communication & organizational skills, drive, energy, enthusiasm, maturity, and confidence
• Hands-on coding experience C# .Net Core
• Leadership and collaboration mindset
• Strong, creative problem-solving abilities
• Strong background in modern technology architecture and adherence to standard design principles
• Experience with unit testing, isolation frameworks, and behavior / domain driven development
• Experience with Finance principles is desired, but not required
• Technology stack design and development experience in any of the relevant technologies :
• Server-side development in Python and C# using .Net Core
• Object Relational Models libraries such as Dapper and Entity Framework
• ASP.NET / Core Web API's
• Angular, React, or similar modern UI framework
• AWS Services including S3, Lambda, RDS, EC2 and EKS
• HTML, CSS, Javascript, and JQuery
• Database design and development in SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, MySQL, or NoSQL
• Git source code management
• Experience with CI / CD pipelines with Azure / AWS DevOps and / or GitLab / GitHub
• Experience with Docker and / or Kubernetes
• Experience with the ELK stack

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