Software Engineer - Data & Reporting (Insurance Asset Management)

About the Engineering Team

Mission of Sixth Street Engineering: Establish a world-class, hands-on team that applies innovative technology solutions to drive scale and attack opportunities with the greatest commercial impact.

Sixth Street Engineering is dedicated to applying technology to private and public market investments in a unique and progressive way. Our Engineers enjoy startup-style responsibilities and impact potential, while benefiting from the experienced leadership team and broad resources of Sixth Street, a leading global investment firm with over $75 billion in assets under management. We are committed to hiring exceptional people with diverse experiences and backgrounds. 

The Role

This permanent position is part of Sixth Street’s new Insurance Engineering team, which is being formed as Sixth Street builds its business serving insurance company limited partners. As a full-stack engineer, you will be instrumental in the development of infrastructure designed to service the distinct reporting and communication needs of insurance companies. In your first two years, you will develop a bespoke security master, automate complex cashflow projection models, and build integrations with Sixth Street’s clients.

This is an opportunity to contribute materially to a new business at a leading alternative investment firm using innovative technology to solve complex problems.

About our Products and Stack

• We are automating complex Insurance Asset Management workflows to streamline operations for internal users and clients 
• We use Allvue as our Order Management System (OMS), Geneva as our ABOR, and we are developing modern cloud-based systems for reporting, risk management, and security master 
• We are heavily Python / AWS Lambda centric 
• We use Github Actions for CI/CD  
• We use Cloudformation and CDK for Infrastructure as Code 

Core Responsibilities

• Work closely with Engineering, Accounting, and Insurance Asset Management and teams to fulfill reporting obligations and deliver actionable insights
• Orchestrate the end-to-end delivery of client critical and business supporting data from its origin to final destination through structured API’s
• Work closely with the business’ Data Reporting and Analytics Team, Strats Team and Investment teams to source and structure data
• Develop the foundational software to enable the Insurance Asset Management business to scale at Sixth Street
• Invest towards strategic Technology Portfolio goals (e.g., Sixth Street’s new data warehouse) by delivering business-specific tactical wins that build on each other
• Own software components and services from design to post-production monitoring

What We Value

• Strong quantitative background (bachelor’s or more advanced degree in a STEM field)
• Financial mathematics & capital markets experience, particularly with a focus on insurance company portfolios
• Experience delivering insights (using appropriate BI, analytics, visualization tools) from a broad range of datasets
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Ability to connect and speak clearly with technical and non-technical audiences
• Solid time management & organizational skills
• Team orientation and influencing skills
• High integrity and trustworthy

Preferred

• 5+ years of coding experience in a client-centric environment, particularly in SQL, Python, or equivalents
• Strong experience working with relational or “NoSQL” data stores
• Experience with automated deployment pipelines
• Comfort working in a high growth, iterative environment
• Broad experience with systems integration, including implementing and integrating with other web services and APIs

About Sixth Street

Sixth Street is a leading global investment firm founded in 2009. Our long-term oriented, highly flexible capital base and "One Team" cultural philosophy allow us to invest thematically across sectors, geographies, and asset classes.

We aren’t looking for any single type of person. Our strength is in our team, a collection of people from different backgrounds and with their own perspectives, united in the mission of being the world’s best investment firm. 

From how we conduct business to how we engage in our communities, everything we do at Sixth Street is rooted in our commitment to our core principles: 

• Cross-Platform: We think across the business and avoid silos at all costs
• Responsibility: We are accountable for our business, our team, and our communities
• Ethical: We are ethical and direct in word and deed
• Action: We ini