Software Engineer

Vestmark is building the AI-native future of wealth management technology. We are looking for early-career Software Engineers in Boston who are serious about AI-assisted development curious about how software engineering is changing and ready to do real work on systems that matter. You will not be handed a ticket queue. You will be expected to think build and grow quickly in an environment where AI fluency is the baseline not the aspiration. This role is based out of the Boston office in the Seaport District.

Vestmark is a leading provider of wealth management solutions and services that enable financial advisors and institutions to efficiently manage and trade their clients portfolios using a purpose-built SaaS ecosystem. With over $2 trillion in assets and 5 million accounts we are a trusted partner to some of the largest and most respected players across the wealth management industry.

What Youll Do

Build Agentic Systems

• Contribute to the design and delivery of agentic systems: workflows where AI plans executes and iterates toward outcomes rather than simply responding to requests
• Build and ship production-quality solutions as part of a squad working on real efficiency and automation problems with direct business impact
• Participate in the full delivery lifecycle: design discussions development testing deployment and iteration

Apply AI-Native Development Practices

• Use AI-assisted development tools including code generation prompt engineering and agentic frameworks as a standard part of your daily workflow from day one
• Learn and apply the teams standards for building AI-native systems: state management observability non-determinism and inference cost awareness
• Engage with testing and validation approaches specific to adaptive systems where behavior is not fully deterministic

Contribute to Reusable Foundations

• Create clean testable maintainable solutions that strengthen the teams shared foundation; treat code quality as a direct contribution to everyone who touches this codebase after you
• Apply the principle fix the process dont automate the broken one: understand the problem deeply before proposing a solution
• Participate in code reviews as both a reviewer and a recipient; treat both as learning opportunities

Grow & Contribute to the Team

• Engage actively in design reviews and architecture discussions asking questions and developing your point of view over time
• Take feedback seriously and apply it quickly; growth velocity matters here as much as current skill level
• Contribute to the growth and development of our core values: We Before Me Positive Energy Knowledge Explorer and Own It

What Were Looking For

Engineering Fundamentals

• Solid foundational knowledge of software engineering: data structures algorithms system design basics and how production systems behave under real-world conditions
• Ability to build and deliver working solutions in at least one language with willingness to use whatever the problem requires
• Understanding of APIs basic cloud concepts and modern software delivery practices

AI Fluency & Curiosity

• Genuine hands-on familiarity with AI-assisted development tools: you use them regularly you have opinions about them and you are actively developing your practice
• Curiosity about agentic systems: how AI can plan take action and iterate toward outcomes in multi-step workflows
• Awareness of where AI tooling is heading and a desire to stay current as it evolves rapidly

Problem-Solving Orientation

• Ability to engage with ambiguous problems: ask good questions break the problem down and propose a reasonable approach before jumping to a solution
• Comfort working on problems where the full solution isnt defined upfront
• Attention to the business context of the work: understanding why something matters not just what needs to be built

Learning Velocity

• Demonstrated ability to learn quickly and independently: you dont wait to be taught everything
• Receptive to feedback and able to apply it quickly; the expectation is continuous improvement and you take that seriously
• Evidence of intellectual curiosity beyond coursework: personal projects open source contributions self-directed learning in AI or systems engineering

Product Mindset

• You engage with the problem before you engage with the solution; you ask why before you ask how and you want to understand what youre building and whether its the right thing to build
• You form a point of view on what youre building and why it matters; you dont treat requirements as fixed inputs but as the starting point for understanding the problem

What Will Help You Stand Out

• Hands-on experience with agentic frameworks LLM APIs or workflow orchestration tools whether through coursework personal projects or early professional work
• Experience with AWS or equivalent cloud environments even at a basic level
• Background or coursework in financial services mathematics or quantitative disciplines
• A project contribution or body of work you can speak to in depth: something you built something that broke and what you learned from both

Why Vestmark

• Join a team that is building AI-native systems in production in a domain where the business consequences of this work are direct and measurable
• Develop real AI engineering skills in an environment where those practices are the established standard
• Work alongside Principal and Senior Engineers who are among the best in this space and who are invested in your growth

Education & Experience

• B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent work experience; M.S. a plus
• 0-3 years of professional software engineering experience; strong internship experience or personal project work considered
• Demonstrated AI tool fluency matters more here than years of experience

Vestmark is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Vestmark prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of race color religion gender identity sex sexual orientation pregnancy national origin age disability status protected military or veteran status and genetic information. #LI-TG1 #LI-Hybrid