Senior Software Engineer

Wellington Management•Boston, MA

6d•Hybrid

About The Position

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 60 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. 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 today’s 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. We are seeking a candidate for a senior software engineer who can 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. To succeed in this role, the candidate must be a self-starter with a curiosity about the portfolio analysis domain. We are looking for a strong hands-on engineer to help deliver on our goals in this strategic initiative.

Requirements

Demonstrated experience designing and developing web applications and services using JavaScript and other relevant enterprise technologies (e.g., Java, .Net)
Fluent in modern JavaScript frameworks, ReactJS preferred.
Strong understanding of user interface design patterns and data architecture principles.
Experience working with Rest APIS, WebSocket, and Server Sent events.
Experience with, and a demonstrated understanding of, modern software development and testing methodologies such as Artifactory, GIT, and Jenkins CI
Ability to understand in-house applications and highly complex and interrelated systems and processing
Experience with various software development methodologies, such as Agile
Excellent written and verbal communications skills
Ability and willingness to work in an energetic, fast-paced, team-oriented environment
Ability to work independently
Ability to manage conflicting priorities effectively
Ability and willingness to work effectively in a business-critical production environment

Responsibilities

Work with business teams, project managers, and systems analysts to review and qualify business requirements, functional specifications, use-cases, and test plans
Design, prototype, and code new software components and applications based on functional specifications, primarily web and mobile clients
Coordinate with analyst teams and vendors to execute test plans and provide support during user acceptance testing
Modify and enhance existing systems to incorporate new functionality and to optimize them for performance
Work closely with UX teams to design, develop, and deliver high quality user experiences that meet performance and design specifications
Author technical design and support documentation

Benefits

At Wellington Management, our approach to compensation is designed to help us attract, inspire and retain the best talent in our industry. We strive to pay employees fairly and competitively across all levels and roles. Our approach to compensation considers all aspects of total compensation; all employees are eligible to receive salary, variable compensation, and benefits.
Base salary is only one component of Wellington’s total compensation approach. Other rewards may include a discretionary Corporate Bonus and/ or Incentives, if eligible .
In addition, we offer a comprehensive and high value benefit package to meet the unique needs of our employees and their families, and we are committed to fostering a flexible work environment that enables employees to thrive personally and professionally.
Examples of our benefits include retirement plan, health and wellbeing, dental, vision, and pharmacy coverage, health savings account, flexible spending accounts and commuter program, employee assistance program, life and disability insurance, adoption assistance, back-up childcare, tuition/CFA reimbursement an d paid time off (leave of absence, paid holidays, volunteer, sick and vacation time)
We believe that in person interactions inspire and energize our community and are essential to our culture. In 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.

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