As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has 27,000+ employees in 35 countries. Some 20,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.
Job Description
Job Summary**
Get To Know Us:
SS&C GIDS provides information processing and computer software services and products. The Company’s operating segments include financial markets, customer management, professional services, and output solutions. SS&C GIDS serves the alternative investments, asset and wealth management, banking and lending, insurance, and real estate industries.
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Lead Software Engineer to lead the development of full-stack solutions. This role involves guiding a team, architecting robust systems, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality software in a fast-paced environment.
What You Will Get to Do:
As a Senior Developer, you’ll play a key role in contributing to delivery within a collaborative scrum team, providing technical guidance while supporting high-quality outcomes.
Contribute to the design and delivery of features, including coding, optimisation, automation, and ensuring alignment with architectural and performance standards
Collaborate with the team to plan, estimate, and deliver work through backlog grooming, sprint execution, and releases to production
Support uplift in development practices, CI/CD automation, and AI capabilities across the team
Foster a positive, collaborative environment to deliver robust, scalable, and pragmatic solutions
Champion strong engineering practices, contribute to managing technical debt, and support the team’s technical direction
Take shared responsibility for production health, including deployments, monitoring, and ongoing support of delivered features
Work with the team to identify and resolve technical risks, escalating blockers appropriately
Contribute to mentoring and knowledge sharing to build overall team capability
What You Will Bring:
Relevant tertiary qualification/degree in Computer Science (or equivalent)
Software engineering experience of 8+ years as a full stack developer
We use a broad range of tools, languages, and frameworks. We do not expect you to know them all, but experience or exposure to some of the following will help you succeed in this role:
Strong proficiency in frontend development using React and/or Angular with JavaScript/TypeScript
Solid backend development experience with Java (Spring Boot) and/or Node.js, with exposure to RESTful services and Web API design/implementation
Proficient in testing and quality engineering practices, including unit testing, and TDD/BDD approaches
Secure coding practices
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
Understanding of cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Private Cloud) and modern deployment practices
Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services.
Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.
Skills Required
- Tertiary qualification/degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- 8+ years software engineering experience as a full stack developer
- Frontend development with React and/or Angular using JavaScript/TypeScript
- Backend development experience with Java (Spring Boot) and/or Node.js
- Experience designing/implementing RESTful services and Web APIs
- Proficient in testing and quality engineering practices, including unit testing and TDD/BDD
- Secure coding practices
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
- Understanding of cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Private Cloud) and modern deployment practices
- Experience mentoring and providing technical guidance to a development team
SS&C Technologies Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about SS&C Technologies and has not been reviewed or approved by SS&C Technologies.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Leave policies are described as generous, including flexible or unlimited vacation and broadly positive views of PTO as a meaningful part of the overall package.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits are positioned as a notable strength, with repeated references to a 401(k) plan with company matching as a valued component of rewards.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity and stock-related incentives are highlighted as a bright spot, with stock incentives described as excellent in some roles and contributing positively to perceived total rewards.
SS&C Technologies Insights
What We Do
SS&C is a global provider of investment and financial services and software for the financial services and healthcare industries. Named to Fortune 1000 list as top U.S. company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut and has 22,000+ employees in over 150 offices in 35 countries. Some 18,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest institutions to local firms, manage and account for their investments using SS&C's products and services.
