Senior Engineer - Investment Technology Platform

Job Overview

The Investment Technology department is an internal software engineering organization whose mission is to provide and expand the technical capabilities that drive our systematic investment process. As an active manager, Arrowstreet seeks to design investment portfolios that will, in expectation, outperform their respective benchmarks on a risk-adjusted basis. To do so, the firm relies on a large set of proprietary systems and applications that provide our investment teams with powerful capabilities to conduct research for alpha generation, to implement investment strategies efficiently, to accurately manage our client accounts, and to provide in-depth analysis and reporting of our investment performance to our investors.

Technology is integral to our long-term success, and we regard outstanding engineering talent essential to the firm’s ability to meet its investment performance and fiduciary goals. We strongly believe that powerful capabilities are critical for the firm to maintain and enhance its competitive advantage, so we look out for strong, motivated and collaborative technologists who are passionate about building production-quality systems using modern tools.  

As a member of the Compute Platforms team, you will be responsible for the architecture and development of the compute platform, workflow, messaging, AI and observability systems. Arrowstreet, as a systematic asset manager, must identify investable trading strategies and implement them quickly and with the highest quality. Having a robust, scalable, and performant general compute platform, workflow and messaging system is thus of critical importance. 

The ideal candidate will possess experience in building distributed systems, applications and infrastructure, experience with Kubernetes and AWS Cloud, experience in designing and implementing large scale systems. The expectation of the role is to be hands-on, working across multiple teams to define requirements, create the design, develop, test, build, deploy and support the functionality of various business critical platforms. The work includes developing Infrastructure-As-Code solutions, developing the automated build and deploy pipelines with unit and integrated tests to ensure high quality and efficient operations, and be part of on-call support rotation.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with members of the Research and Investment Technology groups to review and define requirements for the compute platform, workflow, messaging, AI and observability systems

• Provide expert design insights which help build scalable, easy-to-maintain, efficient solutions to business-critical problems that our platforms are used to tackle

• Lead technical design discussions within the team to gather feedback, discuss the merits and risks of different approaches, and reach consensus on the target architecture

• Develop high quality solutions in both on premise environments and AWS Cloud using Python and other languages

• Develop easy-to-maintain, well-engineered and fully tested Infrastructure-As-Code solutions using Terraform, develop the automated build and deploy pipelines with unit and integrated tests to ensure high quality and efficient operations

• Provide guidance to other team members on development tasks.

• Promote high quality code via code reviews

• Provide production support to prevent disruptions to investment processes

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related discipline

• 8+ years of professional software development experience using Python or another object-oriented language, financial services exposure is a plus

• 4+ years of experience leading design or architecture of large-scale production systems

• 3+ years of experience developing large, high-performance, distributed systems

• 3+ years of experience building high-performance cloud native solutions on public cloud (AWS preferred)

• 3+ years of experience in container technologies like Kubernetes and Docker

• 2+ years of experience in building resilient CI/CD pipelines, strong knowledge of Git, and familiarity with a DevOps platform like GitLab

• 1+ years of experience with Helm and Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform preferred)

• Strong in computer science fundamentals like data structures, algorithm design and complexity analysis

• Proficiency in system-related topics, e.g. hardware architecture, OS, networking

• Ability to write elegant code, and comfortable with picking up new technologies independently

• Self-motivated and self-directed, ability to translate technical direction into functional solutions

The base salary range for this position is $135,000-$325,000 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 the position and other relevant factors. The listed range is also an estimate, and additional information regarding base salary and other elements of total compensation offered by Arrowstreet Capital to successful applicants will be communicated during the recruitment process.  

Arrowstreet Capital is a Boston-based systematic investment firm that manages global equity portfolios for institutional investors around the world. 

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, genetic information, age, pregnancy, medical condition, disability, veteran or military status, marital status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

Arrowstreet Capital is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process due to a disability, contact us to discuss the nature of your request and contact information.