Software Engineer
AllianceBernstein•Nashville, TN
•Hybrid
About The Position
The Application Engineering team builds the systems and data platform that power investment workflows across the Private Alternatives branch of the firm. This includes core back-office applications (deals, tranches, accounting) and newer AI-driven tools used directly by traders. The team is distributed across Minneapolis and Nashville. In Nashville, you will work closely with a small, high-impact group of engineers and business analysts, while collaborating daily with teammates in Minneapolis across engineering and analytics.
Requirements
- Around 5 years of software engineering experience
- Strong Python skills and experience building production APIs
- Solid SQL skills and experience with data warehouses (Snowflake a plus)
- Experience with AWS and infrastructure as code (Terraform preferred)
- Familiarity with Docker, Redis, and background job systems is ideal
- Interest in or experience with LLMs and AI features (prompting, RAG, agents)
- Experience with relational databases and ORMs (PostgreSQL, SQLAlchemy)
- Strong testing practices and a focus on code quality
- Clear communicator who values simple, maintainable code
Responsibilities
- Build and operate a FastAPI-based platform supporting trading, analytics, risk, and back-office workflows
- Build and evolve internal AI tools, including Snowflake-based agents that enable traders to explore firm data via natural language
- Design scalable APIs across domains like trades, positions, exposures, and investor accounting
- Develop data services on top of Snowflake, with a focus on performance and usability
- Integrate LLM capabilities (AWS Bedrock, Snowflake Cortex) into applications, including conversational interfaces and document workflows
- Connect systems across the stack, including BI tools (Looker, Sigma), AWS services (ECS, Lambda), and internal platforms
- Implement background processing pipelines (Redis Queue) for reporting and asynchronous workflows
- Define and manage infrastructure using Terraform and AWS
- Maintain high code quality through testing, CI/CD, and code standards
- Collaborate with business stakeholders to translate complex data needs into reliable systems
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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