Senior Associate, Portfolio Engineering — Full-Stack & Data Systems

Dimensional Fund Advisors; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Dimensional Fund Advisors in Austin, TX is seeking a Senior Associate to join Investment Engineering's Portfolio Engineering team. This full-stack software engineering role focuses on system design, implementation, and maintenance across databases, APIs, and front-end components to support portfolio management and data analysis.

You will work in a collaborative, fast-paced environment, participate in code reviews, and mentor junior developers while expanding expertise in relational databases,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, engineering, math, statistics, or related field.
• Experience with component-based front-end (Angular/React/Vue/Svelte).
• Database experience with SQL Server or similar.
• OOP experience with C#, Java, etc.
• Experience with Material design, Angular Material.
• Experience with large datasets and computational code.
• Strong learning mindset about software and investment management.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Intellectual curiosity and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Understand user requests and translate into concrete designs.
• Design and implement databases, APIs, processing services, pipelines.
• Write code collaboratively, participate in reviews, mentor junior developers.
• Support triage to ensure operability and reliability.

Skills

Component-based front-end

Database experience

OOP (C#, Java)

Material design / Angular Material

Large datasets / computational code

Analytical problem-solving

Curiosity & attention to detail

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Math/Stats

Tools

Microsoft SQL Server

Job description

Dimensional Fund Advisors in Austin, TX is seeking a Senior Associate to join Investment Engineering's Portfolio Engineering team. This full-stack software engineering role focuses on system design, implementation, and maintenance across databases, APIs, and front-end components to support portfolio management and data analysis.

You will work in a collaborative, fast-paced environment, participate in code reviews, and mentor junior developers while expanding expertise in relational databases,