At T. Rowe Price, we identify and actively invest in opportunities to help people thrive in an evolving world. As a premier global asset management organization with more than 85 years of experience, we provide investment solutions and a broad range of equity, fixed income, and multi-asset capabilities to individuals, advisors, institutions, and retirement plan sponsors. We take an active, independent approach to investing, offering our dynamic perspective and meaningful partnership so our clients can feel more confident.
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
Positions are available in our New York City office or with our AI Engineering squad in Harbor Point, Baltimore, MD. In either location, you will join a collaborative team of engineers, product owners, and business partners building high-impact software products with leverage across the firm.
As a Senior Software Engineer on T. Rowe Price Labs’ AI Engineering team, you will design, build, and scale modern, production-grade applications and services that help accelerate innovation across the enterprise. Working in a Build-Operate-Transfer model, you will help incubate new products, harden them for production, and partner closely with business-aligned technology teams to enable broader adoption at scale.
This role is well suited for engineers with strong software fundamentals, cloud and platform experience, and a product mindset. What matters most is the ability to solve complex problems, build reliable systems, collaborate across disciplines, and contribute to the standards and practices that shape the next generation of software engineering at T. Rowe Price.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, test, deploy, and support modern software applications and services within cloud-native architectures.
- Partner with engineers, product owners, and business stakeholders to translate complex needs into scalable technical solutions that deliver measurable business value.
- Contribute to the incubation of new products by rapidly validating ideas, building robust implementations, and preparing successful solutions for production adoption.
- Help execute the Build-Operate-Transfer model by collaborating with business-aligned technology teams to transition proven capabilities for long-term ownership and scale.
- Contribute to reusable shared capabilities and engineering components that improve speed, quality, and consistency across teams.
- Champion engineering excellence through strong software design, automated testing, code quality, continuous integration, and continuous delivery practices.
- Build systems with measurable quality, production readiness, operational observability, and appropriate safety and control mechanisms.
- Manage technical debt and drive continuous improvement across platforms, services, and developer workflows.
- Identify opportunities to apply emerging technologies in ways that accelerate workflows, unlock business value, and improve operational efficiency.
Business Knowledge
- Collaborate closely with business stakeholders and product owners to understand priorities, shape solution direction, and deliver practical outcomes.
- Bring a strong product mindset to technical decision-making, balancing innovation, scalability, risk, and long-term maintainability.
- Operate effectively in a highly collaborative environment where engineers work side by side with cross-functional partners to solve meaningful business problems.
Qualifications
Required:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building applications in an object-oriented language such as Java, Python, or JavaScript.
- Hands-on experience with cloud-native architectures, containerized microservices, and modern software delivery practices.
- Experience building or contributing to production or near-production applications, platforms, or intelligent workflows in complex enterprise environments.
- Familiarity with modern engineering patterns such as API integration, event-driven services, observability, monitoring, and scalable system design.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and software design skills.
- Commitment to engineering quality through automated testing, code reviews, observability, and continuous delivery.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work across engineering and business teams to shape effective solutions.
- A product mindset, learning agility, and comfort operating in a fast-evolving technology landscape.
Preferred:
- Experience contributing to reusable platform components or shared engineering capabilities.
- Exposure to AI-enabled systems, intelligent workflows, or emerging automation technologies.
- Experience with React and/or Angular.
- Understanding of financial markets, asset management, or financial instruments.
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
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.
Base Salary Ranges
Please review the job posting for the location of this specific opportunity.
$121,000.00 - $206,000.00 for the location of: Maryland, Colorado, Washington and remote workers$133,000.00 - $227,000.00 for the location of: Washington, D.C.
$151,000.00 - $258,000.00 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.
This job posting is expected to be available until:
05/31/2026Commitment 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
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Hands-on experience with cloud-native architectures, containerized microservices
- Experience building production applications in enterprise environments
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and software design skills
T. Rowe Price Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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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.
