Senior Software Engineer — Shared Data Platform

Arrowstreet Capital, Limited Partnership; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 325,000; Full time

Job summary

Arrowstreet Capital is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and evolve a Shared Data Platform that enables teams to access and leverage datasets across the firm. You will create cloud-native applications, APIs, and platform capabilities to accelerate dataset onboarding and investment workflows.

You will partner with engineering and business stakeholders to improve platform usability, reliability, and developer productivity while aligning with enterprise standards.

Qualifications

• 5+ years designing and building software applications, developer platforms or distributed systems.
• Strong fundamentals: OO design, system design, testing, code quality.
• Experience with cloud environments (AWS or similar).
• Proficiency with APIs and client libraries (OpenAPI, FastAPI or similar).

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate scalable cloud-native services and platform capabilities.
• Define and execute the technical roadmap for a shared platform.
• Contribute to data discovery, governance, ingestion, and cost-management features.
• Ensure high quality through automated testing and robust tooling.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable solutions.
• Mentor engineers and promote engineering excellence.

Skills

Software engineering

Distributed systems

System design

Stakeholder collaboration

Technical communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Pulumi

CloudFormation

AWS CDK

OpenAPI

FastAPI

Kafka

Kinesis

Job description

Arrowstreet Capital is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and evolve a Shared Data Platform that enables teams to access and leverage datasets across the firm. You will create cloud-native applications, APIs, and platform capabilities to accelerate dataset onboarding and investment workflows.

You will partner with engineering and business stakeholders to improve platform usability, reliability, and developer productivity while aligning with enterprise standards.