Senior Software Engineer, Cloud-Native Investment Systems

Arrowstreet Capital; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 115,000 - 325,000; Full time

Job summary

Arrowstreet Capital in Boston seeks an accomplished engineer to design and implement software solutions automating investment processes. You will mentor teams, lead projects, and push for cloud-native migrations using containerization and serverless tech.

The role emphasizes ownership, collaboration, and delivering scalable, resilient systems in a mission-critical environment. A strong background in data platforms and asset management is valued.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7+ years professional experience in software engineering.
• Minimum 5+ years of experience with cloud services (AWS, GCP, Azure), with AWS preferred.
• Strong knowledge of databases and data manipulation languages and platforms (SQL, Iceberg, Spark, Pandas/Polars, etc.).
• Proven track record of adoption, design and implementation of scalable solutions.
• Hands-on experience building and supporting mission-critical production systems.
• Demonstrated drive to take ownership and initiative in a complex technical role.
• Good debugging and problem-solving skills; knowledge of automated testing.
• Focus on delivering value with persistent efforts to improve business processes through greater system performance and resilience.
• Outstanding communication, organization, and collaboration.
• Experience building solutions in the asset management or financial services industry is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Engage with business and technology leaders to understand strategy, articulate technology options, evaluate tradeoffs, and influence key decisions.
• Provide technical leadership by mentoring team members and leading projects.
• Build new functionality and enhancements to systems currently supporting our systematic investment process.
• Develop a strong understanding of the flow of our investment data and identify opportunities for greater automation, performance enhancements and increased resiliency.
• Accelerate the migration of older systems to modern, cloud-native platforms that leverage modern compute and data models, and drive the adoption and implementation of cloud-native tech solutions.
• Automate the software development, testing and deployment life cycle for investment process applications.
• Support production escalations with urgency.

Skills

Cloud services

SQL

Spark

Python

Data manipulation

Tools

Iceberg

Pandas

Polars

Spark

Job description

Arrowstreet Capital in Boston seeks an accomplished engineer to design and implement software solutions automating investment processes. You will mentor teams, lead projects, and push for cloud-native migrations using containerization and serverless tech.

The role emphasizes ownership, collaboration, and delivering scalable, resilient systems in a mission-critical environment. A strong background in data platforms and asset management is valued.