Portfolio Implementation Architect – VP

AQR; Town of Greenwich (NY); On-site; USD 165,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual discretionary bonus

Medical/dental/vision insurance

401(k)

Paid time off

Job summary

AQR Capital Management, based in New York, seeks a Senior Software Engineer in Portfolio Implementation to lead the design and delivery of complex investment systems, collaborating with researchers, portfolio managers and engineers.

You will own and evolve distributed, microservice-based architectures, drive high-performance solutions, and mentor a small team to deliver production-ready software on time.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with deep expertise in Java.
• Strong experience using Python in production or research-adjacent environments.
• Proven ability to design, build, and operate large-scale, distributed systems.
• Experience operating microservice-based architectures, using technologies such as Java, Elasticsearch, Redis, RabbitMQ / AMQ, and relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server)
• Strong command of engineering best practices, including code quality, design documentation, peer code reviews, automated testing, and test coverage
• Experience operating, tuning, and profiling high-performance systems in production environments
• Experience with observability and monitoring platforms (e.g., New Relic) and using metrics to drive reliability and performance improvements
• Ability to lead technical change, manage risk, and drive initiatives to completion in complex environments
• Experience contributing to requirements capture, technical specification, and work breakdown
• Ability to estimate work, plan delivery, and manage technical trade-offs
• Interest in financial markets and the investment process

Responsibilities

• Leading the design and implementation of portfolio implementation platforms that consume research outputs, perform constrained optimizations, and generate orders
• Owning and evolving distributed, microservice-based systems that operate reliably at scale
• Lead architectural design for high-performance, high-volume, highly available systems, making informed trade-offs across performance, flexibility, and maintainability
• Delivering complex, cross-cutting initiatives that span multiple services, teams
• Providing technical leadership to small teams (typically 2-5 engineers), including task planning, design reviews, and execution oversight
• Mentoring and coaching engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and hands-on guidance
• Partnering with a global team of researchers, portfolio managers and engineers to deliver robust, production-quality solutions on time

Skills

Java

Python

Distributed systems

Microservices

Observability

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Elasticsearch

Redis

RabbitMQ/AMQ

PostgreSQL

MS SQL Server

Job description

AQR Capital Management, based in New York, seeks a Senior Software Engineer in Portfolio Implementation to lead the design and delivery of complex investment systems, collaborating with researchers, portfolio managers and engineers.

You will own and evolve distributed, microservice-based architectures, drive high-performance solutions, and mentor a small team to deliver production-ready software on time.