Job Overview
The Business and Client Technologies team is responsible for developing technology solutions supporting Arrowstreet Capital's Marketing & Reporting, Funds, Finance, Client Management and HR teams. We leverage technology to automate business processes and introduce solutions using a combination of custom development and packaged platforms. Arrowstreet Capital is seeking an Engineer to join a highly talented and motivated group of engineers, who build and maintain applications that support the Funds team at Arrowstreet. This is a critical role that brings significant value to our clients and internal business partners.
The ideal candidate is a self-driven, team-oriented, accomplished hands-on individual who has a passion for improving software architecture and the development process. They are a creative problem-solver who enjoys working on complex problems as part of a team. Collaboration with other development leads and teams within Business and Client Technologies and the broader IT team is a critical part of the success in this role. Bring your passion for technology, delivery and value-add to our collaborative team and put your experience building cloud-native business-oriented solutions to a challenging, rewarding purpose.
Responsibilities:
We are looking for a software engineer to join one of our agile teams who will be responsible for the following:
- Deliver high-quality value-added enhancements to existing platforms
- Automate the software development, testing and deployment process
- Participate as an engaged member of an agile development team
- Collaborate with other groups including developers, DBAs, network engineers, quality assurance and third party vendors / consultants
- Embrace development best practices including continuous delivery, test automation, containerization
- Create and maintain documentation that is thorough, complete, and of a professional caliber
- Support production escalations with urgency
Qualifications:
- Degree in Computer Science or related field
- Strong, creative problem-solving abilities
- Strong communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills
- Programming experience with at least one modern language such as C#, Java, or Python
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with developing web applications utilizing modern frameworks such as React, Angular, etc.
- Experience with RESTful API development
- SQL knowledge
- Exposure to Cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, etc.
We maintain a friendly, team-oriented environment and place a high value on professionalism, attitude and initiative.
What We Do
Arrowstreet Capital is a Boston-based investment manager that provides global and international equity investment strategies and fund products to institutional investors such as pension plans, endowments, foundations, and registered/unregistered commingled investment funds.
We offer a select range of global equity investment strategies managed as long-only, alpha extension and long/short utilizing a broad range of instruments, including swaps and futures. Our investment process utilizes quantitative methods that focus on identifying and incorporating investment signals into our proprietary return, risk and transaction cost models. Our investment approach involves creating and investing in diversified equity portfolios. We utilize a structured investment process that attempts to add value relative to a client specific benchmark. This involves identifying opportunities across companies, sectors and countries by evaluating a diverse set of fundamental and market-based predictive factors. Portfolios are constructed through the use of a mean variance optimizer and proprietary risk and transaction cost models.
Arrowstreet Capital manages approximately $100 billion for over 200 client relationships in North America, the United Kingdom, Europe and the Asia-Pacific regions.
