Senior Software Engineer - Regulatory Compliance

Job Overview

The Core Investment Systems team is responsible for developing technology solutions that support Arrowstreet Capital’s investment services, operations and regulatory compliance. Within Core Investment Systems, the regulatory compliance development team collaborates with the compliance professionals to ensure the firm maintains complete and accurate reporting to regulators worldwide, in all markets and product types where Arrowstreet does business. Our development team interfaces directly with regulators, building and maintaining reporting deliverables and applications used by the regulatory compliance professionals. We seek to leverage technology to automate business processes using a combination of custom development solutions and third-party platforms. The team provides mission critical capabilities to our business users, offering solutions essential to the firm’s ability to deliver sustained alpha and meet our fiduciary commitment to our investors.

The ideal candidate is an accomplished and driven lead engineer with experience building complex systems using modern platforms. We value technologists who are passionate about innovation and seeking ways to continuously improve software development processes and architecture. This hands-on role involves meaningful responsibilities for designing and implementing software solutions that automate complex portions of Arrowstreet’s regulatory reporting. Because our team levers common platforms and shared solutions developed by other groups within the Investment Technologies organization, strong collaboration and proactive communication will factor heavily on the success in this role.

Responsibilities

• Engage with business and technology leaders to understand strategy, articulate technology options, evaluate tradeoffs, and influence key decisions.

• Provide technical leadership by mentoring team members and leading projects.

• Build new functionality and enhancements to systems currently supporting our systematic investment process.

• Develop a strong understanding of the flow of our investment data and identify opportunities for greater automation, performance enhancements and increased resiliency.

• Accelerate the migration of older systems to modern, cloud-native platforms that leverage modern compute and data models (e.g., containerization, serverless), and drive the adoption, design, and implementation of cloud-native technology solutions.

• Automate the software development, testing and deployment life cycle for investment process applications.

• Support production escalations with urgency.

• Train on the underlying business to better understand and support the requirements of Regulatory Compliance.

Requirements

• 7+ years professional experience in software engineering.

• 3+ years of experience with cloud services (AWS, GCP, Azure), with AWS preferred, including EKS, Lambda or similar compute deployment.

• Advanced proficiency with a Python or similar language.

• Strong knowledge of databases and data manipulation languages and platforms (SQL, Spark, Pandas, etc.). Knowledge of Postgres or SQL Server a plus.

• Proven track record of adoption, design and implementation of scalable solutions.

• Hands-on experience building and supporting mission-critical production systems.

• Good debugging skills; knowledge of automated testing and git-based deployments.

• Focus on delivering value with persistent efforts to improve business processes through greater system performance and resilience.

• Demonstrated initiative and problem-solving skills.

• Outstanding communication, organization, and collaboration.

• Desire to take initiative and ownership in a highly technical role.

• Experience building solutions in the asset management or financial services industry is a plus.

• Knowledge of React a plus.

• Basic C# knowledge a plus.

The base salary for this position is $115,000 - $325,000.

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