Senior 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.

About the Role

Company:
Wellington Management Company LLP

Location:

280 Congress Street, Boston, MA 02210

Position Title:

Senior Software Engineer

Job Description

Revitalize and provide robust support for a critical application integral to Fixed Income investors, known as the Fixed Income Analytics Risk Management Systems (FARMS). This application poses a high level of complexity with intricate business logic, extensive mathematical computations, and strict adherence to Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and system availability standards. Successful execution of this role demands a solid technical foundation, coupled with active collaboration with business users, particularly the Global Risk & Analytics team.

Lead tracks of work involving high complexity, mission‑critical AWS‑based Java services and data applications. Lead the delivery of high‑quality business solutions, including participating in architecture, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and support. Be a thought partner to the Global Risk & Analytics team working directly with Quantitative analysts. Design, prototype and code new software components and applications based on functional specifications across the full stack services, web clients, infrastructure, and back‑end.

Coordinate with analyst teams and vendors to execute test plans and provide support during user acceptance testing. Modify and enhance existing systems to incorporate new functionality and to optimize them for performance. Author technical design and support documentation. Position is fixed location based in Boston office; however, telecommuting from a home office may also be allowed.

Job Requirements

Requires a Master’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, Quantitative & Computational Finance, or a directly related field plus two (2) years of experience developing software in the quantitative risk management field or cloud‑based solutions field.

Must have two (2) years of experience in each of the following (experience may be gained concurrently):

• Software development using object oriented and functional designs to build fault‑tolerant, production‑ready systems

• Software development supporting rapid paced delivery using the following languages:
Java (11 or higher) and Python

• Software and application in a Quantitative Risk Management system

• Setting up, configuring, and maintaining CICD pipelines using Jenkins

• Modify and enhance existing systems to incorporate new functionality and to optimize them for performance

• Experience designing, prototyping and coding new software components and applications based on functional specifications across the full stack services, web clients, infrastructure, and back‑end

• Automating build, test, and deployment process to streamline the development lifecycle

• Coordinate with internal teams and external vendors to execute test plans and provide support during user acceptance testing

• Analyzing and optimizing complex SQL for retrieving data from diverse databases to generate reports

• Experience working with and coordinating development stages with Risk Management and Quantitative teams

• Experience authoring technical design and support documentation for all projects

• AWS Cloud computing, including S3, AWS Batch, EC2, ECS, Managed RDS, and Cloud Formation

• Java

Will accept a Bachelor’s degree plus five (5) years of experience developing software in the quantitative risk management field or cloud‑based solutions field in lieu of a Master’s degree and 2 years.

40 hours/week, 9:00am-5:00pm, Salary: $179,000.,000.00/year.

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