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We believe doing the right thing for our clients and our associates is good business. With a career at the firm, you can expect opportunities to create real impact at work and in your community. You’ll enjoy resources to support your career path, as well as compensation, benefits, and flexibility to enrich your life. Here, you’ll find a collaborative culture that respects and values differences and colleagues who share a spirit of generosity.
Join us for the opportunity to grow and make a difference in ways that matter to you.
Role Summary
Join T. Rowe Price's Global Product Technology team as an Associate Software Engineer to help build the next generation of product data platforms and client experiences. This entry-level role is ideal for early-career software engineers looking to grow their technical skills while working on modern cloud-based applications. You'll collaborate with experienced engineers and business partners to design, develop, test, and support scalable solutions using technologies such as microservices, cloud computing, distributed databases, and AI. Working in an Agile environment, you'll contribute across the full software development lifecycle while gaining hands-on experience solving real-world business and technical challenges.
Responsibilities
- Contributes to all parts of the SDLC, e.g., design, development, and testing
- Develops technical solutions following standard methodologies with some guidance from senior engineers
- Identifies and remediates technical debt
- Works with existing data models and schemas and suggests changes and improvements where necessary
- Demonstrates strong logic and reasoning capabilities
- Delivers on well-specified work items
- Uses questions and proposals to clarify requirements when unclear
Qualifications
Required:
- BS or MS Degree in a technical discipline and 1+ years of demonstrated hands-on software engineering experience. Additional experience may substitute for degree
- Knowledge of SQL, Relational and Analytical Database Concepts and Stored Procedures
- Strong Test-Driven Development and desire to write simple, adaptive and iterative code
- Experience working in a dynamic, fast-paced, Agile team environment
- Enthusiasm for learning & results oriented
- Debugs large components with limited assistance and assists other engineers
- Designs and develops practical APIs and abstractions
- Able to operate with openness and efficiency with one or more SDLC methodologies (e.g., Scrum)
- Actively seeks feedback and guidance to improve technical skills (e.g., through submitting work for code review)
- Demonstrates competence in one or two programming languages or technologies
- Works with existing data models and schemas and suggests changes and improvements where necessary
- Debugs and fixes your own software with minimal assistance
Preferred:
- Experience building applications and deploying to public or private clouds, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or similar providers
- Understanding of AI-driven tools, workflow automation, or analytics-enabled business solutions.
- Financial industry experience
Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States (e.g., H1-B visa, F-1 visa (OPT), TN visa or any other non-immigrant work status)
FINRA Requirements
FINRA licenses are not required and will not be supported for this role
Work Flexibility
This role is eligible for hybrid work, with up to three days per week from home
WHAT TO EXPECT AFTER APPLYING
1. You will receive an email and text message to answer a few questions to verify your eligibility. If you apply for multiple jobs, you will receive separate invitations for each role and will need to respond to each. Estimated Time Commitment: 3-5 minutes
2. If you are eligible, you will be asked to record video responses to introductory questions with our vendor partner, HireVue. Take time to read all instructions carefully before responding. Some questions may require you to respond within a set time limit, or with limited retakes. You can use this opportunity to tell us more about your background and interest than we can learn from a resume alone. Estimated Time Commitment: 20-30 minutes
Base Salary Ranges
Please review the job posting for the location of this specific opportunity.
$77,500.00 - $132,000.00 for the location of: Maryland, Colorado, Washington and remote workers$85,000.00 - $145,000.00 for the location of: Washington, D.C.
$96,500.00 - $165,000.00 for the location of: New York, California
Placement within the range provided above is based on the individual’s relevant experience and skills for the role. Base salary is only one component of our total compensation package. Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus, which is determined upon company and individual performance.
Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
At T. Rowe Price, our associates are our greatest asset. We thrive because our company culture is built on inclusion and because we sustain a work environment where associates can bring their best selves to work every day. The backgrounds, talents, and experiences of our global associates allow us to embrace new ideas and perspectives that move our business priorities forward and enable us to deliver strong client outcomes. Here, you can expect equal opportunity and fair and consistent treatment for all.
Benefits
We value your goals and needs, at work and in life. As an associate, you’ll be supported with resources, benefits, and work-life balance so you can thrive in ways that matter to you.
Featured employee benefits to enrich your life:
Competitive compensation
Annual bonus eligibility
A generous retirement plan
Hybrid work schedule
Health and wellness benefits, including online therapy
Paid time off for vacation, illness, medical appointments, and volunteering days
Family care resources, including fertility and adoption benefits
Learn more about our benefits.
Skills Required
- BS or MS degree in a technical discipline, or equivalent additional experience
- At least 1 year of demonstrated hands-on software engineering experience
- Knowledge of SQL, relational and analytical database concepts, and stored procedures
- Strong test-driven development experience and ability to write simple, adaptive, iterative code
- Experience working in a dynamic, fast-paced Agile team environment
- Ability to debug large components with limited assistance and assist other engineers
- Ability to design and develop practical APIs and abstractions
- Ability to work effectively with one or more SDLC methodologies, such as Scrum
- Competence in one or two programming languages or technologies
- Ability to debug and fix software with minimal assistance
- Experience building applications and deploying to public or private clouds, such as AWS or Microsoft Azure
- Understanding of AI-driven tools, workflow automation, or analytics-enabled business solutions
- Financial industry experience
T. Rowe Price Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about T. Rowe Price and has not been reviewed or approved by T. Rowe Price.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings are positioned as a standout, including strong 401(k) matching/contributions and related long-term savings features. Employee stock purchase options are also cited as part of the overall rewards structure that adds value beyond base pay.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off benefits are repeatedly framed as generous, including sizeable PTO allotments and multiple paid-leave categories. This breadth of leave is described as a meaningful component of the overall rewards package.
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Career-Linked Recognition & Rewards — Annual bonuses and performance-linked rewards are described as common components of total compensation. Tuition assistance and development support are also presented as rewards that reinforce longer-term career growth.
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What We Do
T. Rowe Price is an asset management firm focused on delivering global investment management excellence and retirement services that investors can rely on—now, and over the long term. Headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, we provide an array of mutual funds, subadvisory services, separate account management, recordkeeping, and related services for individuals, advisors, institutions, and retirement plan sponsors. At T. Rowe Price, we believe in strategic investing. It has guided how we do business for more than 80 years, and it’s driven by independent thinking and rigorous research. So our clients can be confident that we’ll strive to select the right investments as we help them achieve their objectives. Strategic investing means that we don’t stop at surface level analysis. Instead, we go beyond the numbers. Our investment professionals travel the world, visiting the companies they evaluate. It’s this passion for exploration and understanding that has helped inform better decision-making and prudent risk management for our clients since its founding by Thomas Rowe Price Jr. in 1937.
