Software Engineer - Business and Client Technologies

Job Overview

The Business and Client Technologies team is 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 that combine custom development and packaged platforms. The Business Development and Relation Management Team (BDRM) provides essential services and capabilities to our business users, enabling the firm to deliver sustained alpha and meet our fiduciary commitments to our clients.

This team supports the Client Management team whose responsibilities include tracking prospects from onboarding to client status, managing the associated workflows and data elements, and maintaining cashflows tied to these relationships, ensuring rapid and accurate information for our investment process. Arrowstreet Capital is seeking a Software Engineer to build and maintain applications that support the Client Management team. This critical role adds significant value to internal business partners and clients alike.

The ideal candidate is a self‑driven, team‑oriented, hands‑on engineer with experience in the financial services industry, a passion for improving software architecture and the development process, and a creative approach to solving complex problems.

• Partner with engineers, product owners, and business stakeholders to understand requirements, contribute to solution options, and implement agreed‑upon designs.
• Support adoption of cloud‑native technology designs and solutions.
• Deliver high‑quality value‑added enhancements to existing platforms.
• Contribute to automation of software development, testing, and deployment processes.
• Participate as an engaged member of an agile development team.
• Embrace development best practices, including continuous delivery, test automation, and containerization.
• Create and maintain clear technical documentation for assigned work.
• Assist with business‑hours production support and escalation resolution.
• Design, build, and support AI‑enabled capabilities within business applications, including integrations with LLM APIs, retrieval‑augmented generation, and model‑context protocol‑based workflows.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.
• 2+ years of professional software development using C# and/or Python.
• Strong, creative problem‑solving abilities.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills, drive, energy, enthusiasm, maturity, and confidence.
• Basic understanding of modern application architecture and software design principles.
• Exposure to unit testing and software testing practices; familiarity with mocking/isolation frameworks or behavior/domain‑driven development is a plus.
• React or a similar modern UI framework experience.
• Server‑side development of Python/.NET APIs.
• Experience with cloud or platform services such as object storage, serverless compute, managed databases, virtual machines, and container orchestration.
• Experience with relational databases such as SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or MySQL.
• Experience using Git or similar source‑code management tools.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines with Azure/AWS Dev Ops and/or Git Lab/Git Hub.
• Experience with prompt engineering, retrieval‑augmented generation, MCP‑based integrations, and AI API‑driven application development is a plus.
• Experience working in the financial domain is a plus.

The base salary range for this position is $95,000 - $165,000 per year.

Arrowstreet Capital operates a robust talent acquisition program, and we also seek to compensate and reward our employees competitively within our industry and in line with our merit‑based culture. Our approach to total compensation includes base salaries and annual discretionary bonuses, as well as a robust benefits package. The determination of a successful candidate’s base salary placement within the listed range will vary based on the candidate’s relevant experience and qualifications (which may also include relevant certifications, credentials and other education), the job responsibilities and scope, the commensurate resulting level of…