Lead Software Engineer

WELLINGTON MANAGEMENT

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 50 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:Lead Software Engineer

TEAM:Post-Trade Technologies Team

LOCATION: Boston MA

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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. We are seeking qualified candidates to join our expanding technology team. Together you will not only dream up solutions to todays 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.

JOB OVERVIEW

We are seeking a candidate for a Lead Software Engineer to join the Post-Trade Technologies team within Investment Implementation & Trading Technology. You will serve as a deep technical expert responsible for architecture design and implementation of the Post-Trade suite of applications. 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. You will also interact closely with members of our Global Trading and Trade Operations departments in architecting world-class trade matching settlements and trade communication 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.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Design prototype and code new software components and applications based on functional specifications across the full stack services web infrastructure and back-end

Partner with business analysts QA engineers and Trading/Global Operations personnel to lead the delivery of high-quality business solutions including participating in architecture design implementation testing deployment and support

Work with business teams project managers and systems analysts to review and qualify business requirements functional specifications use-cases and test plans which will including doing estimates identifying issues and raising risks

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 them for performance

Provide technical oversight and thought leadership across initiatives to ensure capabilities are developed with the latest methods and to the highest standards

Provide guidance and mentoring for more junior team members

Author architecture technical design and support documentation and ensure the adherence to established code-quality standards

Help with ensuring the stability of production systems by implementing tools for observability data quality and alerting

As part of DevOps be responsible for software deployments to production via scheduled releases

Provide hands-on support during on-call rotations and manage production incidents determining root cause appropriate corrective actions and follow-up when issues arise

Ability to work in a team-orientated fast-paced environment with regularly changing priorities

QUALIFICATIONS

10 years of experience as a Software Engineer with solid accomplishments

Strong knowledge of Java HTML5 Javascript Angular React SQL

Experience with one or more enterprise databases like Oracle PostgresSQL

Familiarity with messaging technologies like Active MQ/IBM MQ

Experience operating in a DevOps environment application with Cloud technologies such as AWS

Experience working with Agile methodologies CI/CD tools (Jenkins or equivalent) version control (Git) and Orchestration tools

Demonstrated ability to deliver high quality solutions previously

Excellent written and verbal communication

Be willing and able to work both independently and as part of a team in an energetic fast-paced business-critical environment.

Strategic mindset; strong work ethic

Bachelors Degree in Computer Science engineering math or related field or equivalent experience

Experience in Financial Industry is preferred

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We believe that in person interactions inspire and energize our community and are essential to our support of this commitment our employees work from our offices 4 days a week with flexibility to work remotely 1 day a week. We believe that this approach ultimately supports our mission to deliver investment excellence to our clients and their beneficiaries over the long term.