Sr Software Engineer

About Us

Wellington Management offers comprehensive investment management capabilities that span nearly all segments of the global capital markets. Our investment solutions, tailored to the unique return and risk objectives of institutional clients in more than 60 countries, draw on a robust body of proprietary research and a collaborative culture that encourages independent thought and healthy debate. As a private partnership, we believe our ownership structure fosters a long‑term view that aligns our perspectives with those of our clients.

Title:

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. 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.

We are seeking a candidate for a Senior Software 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.

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.

• Contribute to the delivery of high‑quality investment research 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
• Design new prototypes and develop new software components based on functional specifications across the full stack – services, web and mobile clients, infrastructure and back‑end
• Work across various IT teams to coordinate and facilitate infrastructure upgrades, disaster recovery testing, and cross‑functional projects
• Modify and enhance existing systems to incorporate new functionality and to optimize for performance and maintainability
• Provide technical guidance across initiatives to ensure capabilities are developed with latest methods and to the highest standards
• Implement AI‑driven solutions to enhance workflows and optimize productivity
• Author architecture, technical design, and support documentation and ensure the adherence to established code‑quality standards
• Ensure stability of production systems by implementing tools for observability, data quality, and alerting, as well as providing hands‑on support during on‑call rotations

• 7+ years of demonstrated experience designing and developing web applications and services using JavaScript or other relevant enterprise technologies (e.g., Java, .Net)
• 7+ years of demonstrated experience designing and developing complex web services using REST, Type Script, JavaScript/NodeJS, Jest, Java, Python or related technologies
• 5+ years of demonstrated experience designing and developing web applications using HTML5, CSS and modern UI frameworks such as React or Angular
• Experience with, and a demonstrated understanding of, modern software development and testing methodologies such as Artifactory, GIT, and Jenkins CI
• Experience developing applications with AWS cloud technologies
• Intermediate‑level experience…