Lead Platform Engineer, Python

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.

About the Role:

We are currently seeking qualified candidates for a Lead Software Engineer position on our Platform Engineering team, responsible for designing and building tools and workflows for our internal software engineering teams. These systems enable teams to build and deploy applications effortlessly, allowing them to focus on business functionality for their users. Your work will directly support enterprise‑wide initiatives, helping teams across the organization streamline operations, improve reliability, and accelerate delivery.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex technical problems and collaborating with other engineers to create high‑impact internal platforms.

• Design, develop, and maintain core platform services and APIs.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to understand requirements and deliver scalable solutions.
• Implement infrastructure automation and CI/CD pipelines using modern Dev Ops tools.
• Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and technical planning; participate in all phases of the software development lifecycle: architecture, design, implementation, deployment, and support.
• Ensure that the team adheres to established development standards such as continuous integration, code reviews, and technical documentation.
• Monitor and optimize system performance, reliability, and security using metrics, logs, and traces to drive insight and remediation.

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering.
• Hands‑on experience designing, deploying, and managing cloud‑native applications using AWS services (e.g., EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, Cloud Formation), with a strong grasp of scalable and secure architecture principles.
• Experience designing and operating Dev Ops platforms including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, Jenkins), and container orchestration using ECS or EKS.
• Experience designing and operating monitoring, logging, and performance optimization tools (e.g., Open Search, Open Telemetry, Cloud Watch, X‑Ray).
• Proficient in Python with experience building tools using widely adopted libraries such as Pandas, Num Py, Requests, Beautiful Soup, FastAPI, and SQL Alchemy.
• Skilled in packaging, testing, and deploying Python applications using tools like pytest, setup tools, and Docker.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Attention to detail, self‑discipline, and passion to drive and innovate.
• Comfortable with test‑driven development, continuous integration, and agile development methodologies using tools like GIT, Artifactory, and Jenkins.
• Experience working with offshore development teams is a plus.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, math, or related field, or equivalent experience is preferred.

Base salary range for this position: USD 120,000 – 225,000. Other rewards may include a discretionary corporate bonus and/or incentives, if eligible. In addition, we offer a comprehensive and high‑value benefit package that includes retirement plan, health and wellbeing, dental, vision, pharmacy coverage, health savings account, flexible spending accounts, commuter program, employee assistance program, life and disability insurance, adoption assistance, backup childcare, tuition/CFA reimbursement, and paid time off (paid holidays, volunteer, sick and vacation leave).

Our approach to compensation is designed to help us attract, inspire, and retain the best talent in our industry.

We support a flexible work environment: employees work from our offices four days a week with flexibility to work remotely one day a week.

We are dedicated to building and maintaining a diversified workforce and consider a broad array of candidates with varied skill, workplace experiences, and backgrounds. As an equal‑opportunity employer, Wellington Management ensures that all qualified applicants are considered without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, religion, creed, national origin, age, ancestry, disability, medical condition, citizenship, marital status, pregnancy, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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