Java/Python Senior Software Engineer

About Our Company

We’re a diversified financial services leader with more than $1.5 trillion in assets under management, administration and advisement as of year-end 2024. Our team of 22,000 people across 19 countries, serves more than 3.5 million individual, small business and institutional clients. We are a longstanding leader in financial planning and advice, a global asset manager and an insurer. Our unwavering focus on our clients and strong financial foundation connects each of our unique businesses – Ameriprise Financial, Columbia Threadneedle Investments and RiverSource Insurance and Annuities. Here, we foster meaningful careers, invest in the future, and make a difference for clients, institutions and communities around the world.

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced and hands-on full stack senior software engineer to join our Asset Management – Investment Technology in NYC. This role will play a critical part in modernising and supporting core investment platforms, with a focus on scalable cloud-based architecture, full stack delivery and robust engineering practices.
You will work across investment technology stacks, engage directly with global stakeholders across investment, operations, products and wider technology teams and help drive technology solutions that support portfolio management and trading. Exposure to ETFs and multi-asset platforms is a plus.
This is an excellent opportunity in technology delivery within a dynamic, growth focused and collaborative global technology team while expanding your asset management domain expertise.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive full stack application development using modern technologies across cloud-native and hybrid architectures

• Design and implement scalable and APIs with strong security, monitoring and logging frameworks

• Develop rich UI components using framework such as React or Angular

• Manage AWS based infrastructure components and CI/CD pipelines (CloudFormation, Lambda, ECS, S3, RDS etc.)

• Own the production environment operations and applications. Be responsible for reviewing and approving all change before it is deployed into your production environment

• Interface with vendors (e.g., Blackrock Aladdin, Snowflake, etc.) for issue resolution, feature enhancements and to ensure robust system integration

• Continuously seek automation opportunities to improve team efficiency

• Provide oversight, mentorship, and technical leadership to a development team, which consists of employees, contractors, and vendor partner resources, to ensure the timely execution of project deliverables. Provide governance oversight to ensure adherence to development strategy, standards, tools, and procedures. Guide the development teams to consistently apply appropriate development principles and standards during all phases of the development life-cycle.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience coding and/or designing in multiple programming languages.

• 7+ years of practical experience and proven success with the design and build of complex software applications in multiple environments. 

• Experience working with vendor partner (on- and off-shore) resources.

• Strong command of full stack development: Javascript (React/Angular), Node.js or Java/.NET/ Python and SQL

• Hands-on experience with AWS architecture and services (Glue, Lambda, API gateway, IAM, S3, CloudWatch etc.)

• CI/CD tools: Jenkins, Github Actions, Terraform or CloudFormation

• Strong API development and integration experience

• Experience with testing frameworks (Jest, Cypress, Selenium)

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience working in the Asset Management, Investment Banking or Wealth Management

• Knowledge of front office platform and workflows: OMS, PMS and risk engines

Visa Sponsorship

Applicants must have a valid work authorization that does not now, or in the future, require visa sponsorship for employment in the United States (e.g., H-1B, F-1 CPT, F-1 OPT, TN).

In-Office Collaboration

We are a client-centric, relationship-based business. Working together, in-person, is foundational to how we achieve results. By fostering a culture of face-to-face collaboration, idea sharing, productivity and personal connection, we deliver for our stakeholders — clients, advisors, employees and shareholders. Our employees work in the office at least four (4) days per week, with flexibility to work from home one (1) day per week. Some roles