Software Architect, Portfolio Construction

About Bridgewater

Bridgewater Associates is a premier asset management firm, focused on delivering unique insight and partnership for the most sophisticated global institutional investors.

Our investment process is driven by a tireless pursuit to understand how the world’s markets and economies work — using cutting-edge technology to validate and execute on timeless and universal investment principles.

Founded in 1975, we are a community of independent thinkers who share a commitment for excellence. By fostering a culture of openness, transparency, and inclusion, we strive to unlock the most complex questions in investment strategy, management, and corporate culture.

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Our Culture

Bridgewater’s unique success is the direct result of our unique way of being. We want an idea meritocracy in which meaningful work and meaningful relationships are pursued through radical truth and radical transparency. We require people to be extremely open, air disagreements, test each other’s logic, and view discovering mistakes and weaknesses as a good thing that leads to improvement and innovation. It is by continually striving together for the highest levels of truth and excellence that we create meaningful work and meaningful relationships. Within this culture, Diversity and Inclusion is a top priority because it is essential to finding the best talent in the world, enabling our idea meritocracy, and creating an environment where all types of people can thrive. We have a full-time team as well as affinity networks that work on these issues - If you would like to learn more, please let your Bridgewater recruiter know.

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About the Technology Department
The Technology team at Bridgewater engineers systems to understand the world. These systems synthesize and industrialize our global understanding into a hive mind of macroeconomic knowledge which enables us to educate and collaborate with the world’s most influential central banks and policy makers and carefully and strategically manage the world’s most important capital. Our technologists are engineering highly available, high performing and highly secure cloud platforms and infrastructure which support and scale our investing operations.

 

About the Portfolio Construction Technology Team

The goal of the Portfolio Construction department is to translate our understanding of how the global economy works into strategy specific portfolios. Embedded within the Portfolio Construction department is a uniquely talented technology team that builds and manages the tools that allow our portfolio strategists, investors, and operations teams to create and test new portfolio strategies and logic, construct portfolios, and manifest our desired portfolios to securities we can trade in the markets.

 

You Will Drive the Following Responsibilities

• Architect and design major software components, systems, and features in the Portfolio Construction space.
• Lead design discussions to provide business users with technical solutions
• Define and evolve of the team’s core set of best practices and SDLC
• Working closely with the business to understand our key problems and pain points, and devising solutions to meet them
• Creating component and object level design, as well as the production, troubleshooting, and documentation of high-quality code
• Contributing to the technology community through various activities e.g. mentoring, interviewing, recruiting, technical seminars, etc.

Minimum Qualifications

• Strong computer science fundamentals with a mastery of backend platform-level and infrastructure development
• 10+ years professional software development experience in technically rigorous environments holding extremely high bars
• Experience architecting and developing distributed systems
• Experience with complex backend systems and a fluency with contemporary programming languages, patterns, and architectures
• Expert level experience with Java and k8s. We are not a language-specific shop; however, the majority of backend technologies are built in Scala and Java.
• Deep experience with a Cloud platform a requirement.  Bridgewater runs both AWS and Azure.

 

Location Requirements

For most of our roles, Bridgewater offers remote work flexibility, with most employees required to work on campus as their principal work location, a minimum of two days (and in some cases three days) pe