As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a crucial role in developing and maintaining innovative, scalable, and secure applications that support the firm’s strategic objectives. Your expertise in mobile app and API development will be crucial in building transformative digital products. This role will require someone to be in our Woodbridge, NJ office 3 days a week.
Key Responsibilities:
Application Delivery
- Develop hybrid mobile apps using native languages and mobile web development
- Design, develop, test and deploy high-quality software solutions using AWS, React, and modern scripting languages.
- Ensure cross-platform compatibility and performance optimization.
- Leverage AWS services for application development, including serverless computing, and cloud storage solutions.
- Design, develop, and manage APIs to support seamless integration across systems.
- Adhere to architecture decisions to ensure scalability, performance, and maintainability.
- Ensure security best practices in cloud-based development.
Collaboration & Communication
- Work closely with cross-functional teams, including Business Solution Engineers, QA, and business stakeholders, to ensure successful project delivery.
- Share experience and knowledge with a team of engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and technical excellence.
- Promote best practices in coding, testing, and deployment across the team.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in mobile and web application development.
- Hands-on cloud experience with AWS services such as Lambda, AppSync or similar.
- Experience working with NoSQL databases (e.g., Dynamo, Mongo).
- Experience with mobile app development using SwiftUI, Kotlin or hybrid framework.
- Proficient in designing, developing, and managing APIs utilizing GraphQL and REST.
- Advanced skills in TypeScript and JavaScript for software development and scripting.
- Familiarity with modern development workflows, version control (Git), and deployment pipelines along with mobile app lifecycle management.
- Familiarity with Agile/Scrum frameworks for managing and delivering projects.
- Effective communication and collaboration skills to work with cross-functional technology teams, including software engineers, solution engineers, infrastructure engineers, and architects.
The base salary range for this position is ($110,000.00 - $180,000.00). Actual salaries will vary and will be based on various factors, such as skills, experience, and qualification for the role. It is not typical for offers to be made at or near the top of the range. In addition, this position may be eligible for a discretionary incentive based on individual and company performance.
Shape the Future of Technology at Bessemer
At Bessemer, technology is an integral part of how we serve our clients and support our employees. Now, we’re expanding our commitment even further. We’re making a significant long-term investment in technology, and we’re looking for top IT professionals to be part of our growing team.
Why Bessemer?
- Strategic vision: We take a forward-thinking approach to building modern engineering solutions that address the needs of our clients and employees. Our technology leaders energize our firm with a focus on stability, efficiency, and innovation.
- Ambitious roadmap: Challenge yourself on projects that transform key areas of the firm and build relationships with talented partners across the business.
- Inviting environment: Do your best work in modern spaces that foster collaboration and take a break with colleagues in our subsidized cafeteria.
- Exceptional colleagues: We enjoy our work and creating great outcomes together. Our highly skilled professionals are committed to working collaboratively and striving for excellence.
- Work-life balance: We believe that a balanced professional and personal life is essential for our employees’ — and our firm’s — well-being.
About Bessemer Trust
Bessemer Trust is a family office, overseeing more than $200 billion in assets for over 3,100 individuals and families of substantial wealth. Its more than 1,200 employees are singularly focused on private wealth management — disciplined investment management, sophisticated wealth planning, comprehensive family office services, and highly personalized client service.
Established in 1907 as the family office for Annie and Henry Phipps, Bessemer Trust is in its seventh generation of ownership by the Phipps family. As a self-made entrepreneur, Henry Phipps was a founding partner and chief financial officer of Carnegie Steel.
Bessemer Trust retains its original focus as a privately owned and independent wealth manager deeply committed to its mission of providing peace of mind to its clients. Bessemer’s adherence to putting clients’ interests first, fiduciary mindset, and highly collaborative culture are at the heart of everything the firm does.
Key Facts:
- For 118 years, Bessemer Trust has operated continuously in a single line of business, independently owned by one family.
- Headquartered in New York’s Rockefeller Center, Bessemer Trust has 22 offices in total. Woodbridge, NJ, is one of the firm’s largest offices, which hosts a wide range of technology and operations professionals. In addition to its sizable presence in New York and Woodbridge, the firm provides client service through offices in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Delaware, Denver, Garden City, Grand Cayman, Greenwich, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Naples, Nevada, Palm Beach, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Stuart, and Washington, D.C.
- To watch a video about Bessemer Trust’s history, click here.
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About Our Employee Rewards and Benefits:
We provide exceptional rewards and benefits that are among the best in the industry, giving our people access to a wide range of options, including:
- Competitive base salary plus discretionary annual bonus for select positions
- A 401(k) plan with a generous annual profit-sharing contribution
- Personalized development and career opportunities, including tuition reimbursement support
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans with zero contributions for employee coverage
- Employee assistance (EAP) and wellness programs
- Hybrid work environment: 60% in office, 40% remote for most positions
- Paid time off and paid parental leave
- Employer-paid life insurance and short- and long-term disability coverage
- Legal services and financial wellness plans at no cost to employees
Bessemer Trust is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We encourage candidates of diverse backgrounds to apply.
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What We Do
Privately owned and independent, Bessemer Trust is a multifamily office that has served individuals and families of substantial wealth for more than 110 years. Through comprehensive investment management, wealth planning, and family office services, we help clients achieve peace of mind for generations.






