Senior Software Engineer
About The Position
Wellington Management is seeking a highly motivated Senior Software Engineer to join their Enterprise Limits & Restrictions (ELR) engineering team. This role involves building and supporting the firm's investment compliance and trading controls platform, which is crucial for ensuring compliance with various restrictions and safeguarding investment decisions. The team also manages key aspects of Wellington's trading technology, including the FIX connectivity infrastructure for global communication with broker-dealers and trading venues. This position offers a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of compliance and trading technology, solving complex business and technical challenges and collaborating with diverse teams such as Legal and Compliance, Derivatives Onboarding, Trading, and Investment Technology.
Requirements
- 7–10+ years of hands-on software development experience using Java and J2EE technologies (currently utilizing Java 17; Java 11 experience is acceptable)
- Strong experience with Spring and Spring Boot frameworks
- Solid understanding of distributed, multi-threaded, and high-performance systems
- Experience designing, developing, and supporting RESTful APIs and event-driven architectures
- Experience building highly available systems supporting critical business workflows
- Demonstrated use of AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code) to improve development productivity and code quality
- Strong communication, analytical, design, problem-solving, and data modeling skills
- Experience with software development lifecycle methodologies and automated testing
- Ability to collaborate effectively across business and technology teams
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
Nice To Haves
- Experience with AWS cloud technologies and CI/CD pipelines, including Jenkins, is highly desirable
- Experience with complex event processing (Esper Framework) is an added advantage.
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical design, development, deployment, and support of the Enterprise Limits & Restrictions (ELR) platform.
- Develop and maintain scalable, reliable, and secure backend services supporting workflows that evaluate regulatory, client and firmwide restrictions.
- Work closely with Project Managers, Business Analysts, Technical Leads, and Quality Engineering teams on estimation, planning, delivery, issue resolution, and risk management.
- Support tier-1 production systems, troubleshoot complex issues, and drive continuous improvements in system stability, performance, and scalability.
- Promote engineering excellence through code reviews, mentoring, automated testing, observability, and modern development practices.
- Stay current with evolving industry and technical trends, including AI-assisted development tools, to ensure systems and team are of the highest caliber.
- Participate in the modernization and enhancement of compliance platforms, helping to drive innovation and operational efficiency across the investment technology ecosystem.
Benefits
- retirement plan
- health and wellbeing
- dental
- vision
- pharmacy coverage
- health savings account
- flexible spending accounts
- commuter program
- employee assistance program
- life and disability insurance
- adoption assistance
- back-up childcare
- tuition/CFA reimbursement
- paid time off (leave of absence, paid holidays, volunteer, sick and vacation time)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
