Software Engineer, SMA

The Role

Lord Abbett is seeking a Software Engineer who is self-driven, motivated to achieve results, with a high standard for work deliverables, to join the Investment Platforms team. You will be responsible for developing various modules of our portfolio modeling and order management applications managed by the investment platform technology team for our SMA business. This is an opportunity to join a fast-paced environment, with the ability to learn about the asset management industry and have an impact on many strategic initiatives around investment Platforms.

We’ll trust you to:

• Design and develop software modules to meet the business requirements
• Analyze existing software code and make enhancements for new requirements
• Work under limited guidance
• Actively think about system stability and enhancing our applications
• Understand and deeply focus on the real-world benefit your systems and products will have on our end users
• A strong desire to document and share work done to aid in long term support

You'll need to have:

• 4-7 years of experience in testing, documentation, production support, applications developing, modern web applications using Rest API, caching, Kafka and J2EE/JAVA Architecture
• Strong experience in Spring Framework such as Spring MVC, IOC, AOP and Spring JDBC
• Experience in building Restful web API with Spring, Spring Boot
• Experience in designing front end interfaces using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Bootstrap, React
• Unit and integration testing using Junit and Mockito
• Familiar with Dev Ops tools and experience in CI/CD software
• Experience in database systems like SQL Server, Postgre
  
  SQL is a must
• Experience with source control systems like GIT (preferred), Perforce or similar
• Experience in Python will be a plus
• Good problem-solving, intellectual curiosity and analytical abilities
• Takes full ownership of his/her work and delivers with high standards
• Demonstrates good communication skills and comfortable working with many teams

Why Lord Abbett?

Lord Abbett is a leading global independent, privately held investment management company. We are active managers and invest where we believe we have a repeatable edge and can deliver alpha for our clients. Our vision is to be the most respected asset manager in the world, admired for our people, our performance, our relationships, and our organizational agility. This inspires the three pillars of our culture:

• Principles-Led - We empower our leaders to create an environment of trust.
• Performance-Oriented - We inspire our people to embody our values, excellence, responsibility, transparency & collaboration.
• Purpose-Driven - We instill a passion for always putting our clients' interests first.

We are honored to have earned recognition as one of the Best Places to Work in Money Management by Pensions & Investments and scored 100% on the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index, a measure of LGBTQ+ workplace equality.

Compensation Information:
Annual base salary for this role is $120,000 - $145,000. Salary is estimated for this role. Actual pay may be different.

Discretionary Bonus:
Role may be eligible to receive an annual discretionary bonus. Discretionary bonuses are determined by several factors including, but not limited to, firm, team, and individual performance.

Benefits:
Lord Abbett is committed to offering a competitive total rewards package to all eligible employees. Offerings include competitive total compensation, retirement plans, competitive health and well-being plans. To learn more about what we offer, please visit Careers | Lord Abbett.

Lord Abbett is an equal employment opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals without regard to the following legally protected characteristics: race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, sexual identity, caregiver status, military/veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal law.

All employment decisions at Lord Abbett are based solely on the applicant’s relevant experience, skills and qualifications.