Senior Software Engineer, AI-Driven Investment Platform

Selby Jennings; Downers Grove (IL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Selby Jennings is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for a leading investment management organization in the United States. The role focuses on building scalable technology for portfolio management, trading, analytics, and operational workflows across asset classes, working with investment professionals, quantitative teams, and stakeholders.

You will design data platforms, APIs, and microservices in Python, deploy cloud-native solutions, and drive CI/CD, observability, and resilient systems in a

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or related field.
• 3+ years of software or data engineering experience.
• Strong Python and API/data processing experience.
• Solid SQL expertise with PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and Snowflake.
• Experience using AI-powered development tools for coding assistance and testing.
• Knowledge of data engineering concepts, pipelines, quality, lineage, and error handling.
• Experience building solutions in cloud environments.
• Familiarity with containers and modern deployment practices.
• Understanding distributed systems, messaging, and asynchronous patterns.
• Experience with CI/CD and DevOps methodologies.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Thrives in a collaborative, fast-paced environment with multiple priorities.

Responsibilities

• Leverage AI-assisted development tools to accelerate software delivery, testing, documentation, and prototyping while ensuring code quality and maintainability.
• Design, develop, and support data platforms, services, and workflows for investment and analytics applications.
• Build and maintain data ingestion, transformation, validation, and integration processes across diverse data sources.
• Develop Python applications, APIs, and microservices supporting analytical tools and business workflows.
• Create and optimize SQL solutions, including data models, ETL, and large-scale data processing.
• Design and support event-driven and distributed architectures to improve scalability and performance.
• Develop cloud-native applications and services in modern public clouds.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and deployment frameworks.
• Implement monitoring, logging, data validation, and observability for resilience.
• Partner with investment, analytics, and business teams to translate requirements into scalable tech.
• Drive continuous improvement through engineering best practices, automation, testing, and performance optimization.
• Participate in production support and contribute to platform stability initiatives.

Skills

Python

SQL

Cloud technologies

Distributed systems

CI/CD / DevOps

Data engineering concepts

Troubleshooting

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/DS

Tools

PostgreSQL

SQL Server

Snowflake

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD tools

Job description

Selby Jennings is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for a leading investment management organization in the United States. The role focuses on building scalable technology for portfolio management, trading, analytics, and operational workflows across asset classes, working with investment professionals, quantitative teams, and stakeholders.

You will design data platforms, APIs, and microservices in Python, deploy cloud-native solutions, and drive CI/CD, observability, and resilient systems in a