Lead Software Engineer

T. Rowe Price Group • Owings Mills, MD

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

At T. Rowe Price, we identify and actively invest in opportunities to help people thrive in an evolving world. As a premier global asset management organization with more than 85 years of experience, we provide investment solutions and a broad range of equity, fixed income, and multi-asset capabilities to individuals, advisors, institutions, and retirement plan sponsors. We take an active, independent approach to investing, offering our dynamic perspective and meaningful partnership so our clients can feel more confident. We believe doing the right thing for our clients and our associates is good business. With a career at the firm, you can expect opportunities to create real impact at work and in your community. You'll enjoy resources to support your career path, as well as compensation, benefits, and flexibility to enrich your life. Here, you'll find a collaborative culture that respects and values differences and colleagues who share a spirit of generosity. Join us for the opportunity to grow and make a difference in ways that matter to you. Role Summary This Lead Software Engineer will focus on a key growth initiative enhancing our Individual Investor (II) services. The primary focus will be the development of a modern, scalable platform that streamlines product distribution, improves user experience, digitizes manual processes, and elevates brokerage services. This strategic effort is foundational for advancing retail brokerage and advice offerings, as well as supporting new partnership opportunities. We will expect you to be agile / to lead / to think outside the box. In return, we'll give you challenging work that has an impact / opportunities to learn and grow / and a collaborative culture that encourages every member of our team to bring their point of view to the table—because that's how we help our clients succeed. You'll be hands-on coding through the entire development lifecycle as well as leading an Agile team of Software Engineers. In this role, you will foster innovation as you build applications to provide business value solutions for our clients. You will be part of a collaborative team of curious and enthusiastic engineers who bring different perspectives to our projects working with AWS, Java, and Microservice technology.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or the equivalent combination of education and relevant experience AND 8+ years of total relevant work experience
• 8+ years of progressive Java development expertise including microservice development
• Significant expertise designing, developing, deploying, and supporting Java backend solutions
• Significant experience in AWS cloud technologies including databases, caching, and messaging
• Significant experience using Spring Boot
• Able to work with existing data models and schemas and suggest changes and improvements
• Experience using UNIX, scripting, and GitLab
• Have written Unit tests and has familiarity with a variety of testing frameworks
• Provides a clear and concise explanation of business strategy, technical concepts, designs or implementation to a non-technical audience
• Able to quickly learn new technologies and stay abreast of industry trends
• Able to support deployments and occasional support activities outside normal business hours as needed
• Business Knowledge Experience working directly with business partners
• Can articulate business needs and translate them into technology solutions

Nice To Haves

• Previous experience in the asset management industry
• Prior hands-on UI development expertise with React, Angular, Vue, etc

Responsibilities

• Mentor and lead other developers enabling them to work independently
• Lead development efforts, provide input into architectural and design decisions, provide realistic estimates
• Design and develop solutions working with other internal groups such as architecture, devops and enterprise security to ensure alignment with enterprise technology direction and standards
• Contribute to code reviews and provide feedback
• Lead discussions to drive tactical vs. strategic decisions, outlining trade-offs

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Annual bonus eligibility
• A generous retirement plan
• Hybrid work schedule
• Health and wellness benefits, including online therapy
• Paid time off for vacation, illness, medical appointments, and volunteering days
• Family care resources, including fertility and adoption benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees