Job Overview
The Business and Client Technologies team are 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 introducing solutions using a combination of custom development and packaged platforms. The Finance IT Team provides services and capabilities to our business users that are essential to the firm's ability to deliver sustained alpha and to meet our fiduciary commitment to our clients. This team supports the Finance department in their computing, tracking and reporting of the Firm's Revenue along with purchasing and general ledger management. Arrowstreet Capital is seeking an Engineer to join a highly talented and motivated group of engineers, who build and maintain applications that support the Finance 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 and 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 an experienced backend or full stack developer to join one of our agile teams who will be responsible for the following:
- Engage with business and technology leaders to understand strategy, articulate solution options, evaluate tradeoffs, and influence key decisions
- Work on cloud-native technology designs and solutions
- 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
- Hands-on coding experience with C# .Net Core
- Collaboration mindset
- Strong, creative problem-solving abilities
- Background in modern technology architecture, data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented programming, and an understanding and adherence to standard design principles
- Experience with unit testing, isolation frameworks, and behavior/domain driven development
Technology stack design and development experience in:
- Server-side development in C# using .Net Core
- ADO.NET and Entity Framework
- ASP.NET/Core Web API's
- Database design and development with relational DB's (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.) or NoSQL DB's (MongoDB, DynamoDB)
- Git source code management
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines with Azure/AWS DevOps and/or GitLab/GitHub
- Good communication & organizational skills, drive, energy, enthusiasm, maturity, and confidence
Nice to Have:
- AWS Services including S3, Lambda, RDS, EC2 and EKS
- Angular, React, or similar modern UI framework
- Experience in Financial Services
- Experience with Docker and/or Kubernetes
- Experience with the ELK stack
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.
