Lead Software Engineer — Performance & Benchmark AI

Wellington Management Company; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Wellington Management Company seeks a Lead Software Engineer for Performance & Benchmark Technology in Needham, MA. You will lead technical design and architecture for investment middle-office applications, delivering scalable software to measure and report investment performance for client reporting.

You will mentor engineers, promote AI-assisted development, and collaborate with analysts, PMs, and other teams to deploy robust solutions that meet business outcomes.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software development and design experience.
• 7+ years demonstrated experience developing enterprise applications and services using Java and related technologies like Spring Boot.
• Hands-on experience in multi-threaded programming is required.
• Experience in relational and non-relational database technologies is required.
• Motivated, agile and able to work independently in a fast-paced team-oriented environment. Committed to deliver projects on time and overcome obstacles.
• Must possess excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience with working in AWS environment is preferred.
• Strong understanding of AI-assisted software development practice.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical design, set technical direction, facilitate architectural decisions, and own the technical integrity of the solution.
• Work with business team members, project managers/analysts, other software engineers to review business requirements, functional specifications, use-cases, and test plans.
• Champion the adoption of AI-assisted development practices, including code generation, automated testing, code reviews, and developer productivity tools.
• Mentor software engineers, provide technical guidance, and promote knowledge sharing, engineering best practices, and continuous professional development.
• Design, prototype and author code for software components and applications based on functional specification and optimize them for performance.
• Ensure the adherence to established code-quality standards within the development and QA teams, such as Continuous Integration, Code Reviews, and all required release documentation.
• Establish and maintain effective client relationships and help guide the team in setting priorities for completion of requests or resolution of issues.
• Work across teams such as with middleware, database, and architecture teams to coordinate and facilitate production releases.
• Author architecture, technical design, and support documentation.
• Drive continuous improvement of the software development lifecycle through AI-powered engineering workflows.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Multi-threaded programming

AWS

AI-assisted development

Tools

SQL

NoSQL

CI/CD

Job description

Wellington Management Company seeks a Lead Software Engineer for Performance & Benchmark Technology in Needham, MA. You will lead technical design and architecture for investment middle-office applications, delivering scalable software to measure and report investment performance for client reporting.

You will mentor engineers, promote AI-assisted development, and collaborate with analysts, PMs, and other teams to deploy robust solutions that meet business outcomes.