Sr Software Engineer - Investment Engineering

PanAgora Asset Management; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

PanAgora Asset Management seeks a Senior Software Engineer to join the Investment Engineering group as a hands-on partner to the investment teams. You will design, develop, and support proprietary applications powering the full investment lifecycle.

Work across investment compliance, portfolio construction, trading, operations, and client reporting. Focus on scalable, reliable systems, APIs, microservices, and event-driven architectures in collaboration with business stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or closely related field.
• Minimum 5 years of professional software development experience building enterprise business applications.
• Proficiency in one or more modern OO languages and backend frameworks (C#/.NET, Java, Python); experience with MSSQL and RESTful APIs.
• Experience deploying applications on cloud technologies (Azure or AWS).
• Experience designing microservices-based systems and event-driven architectures.
• Familiarity with RabbitMQ or NServiceBus and distributed messaging.
• Strong understanding of software design patterns, distributed systems, and system integration.
• Experience with source control, automated testing, CI/CD, and Agile practices.
• Excellent communication and ability to interact with business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain proprietary applications for investment workflows.
• Implement and support investment compliance controls and monitoring pipelines.
• Build scalable distributed systems and APIs that integrate with internal and external platforms.
• Contribute to architecture decisions and improve code quality, testing, and deployment processes.
• Collaborate with Compliance, PMs, Traders, and Operations to translate requirements into tech solutions.
• Perform production support, root-cause analysis, and on-call participation.

Skills

C# / .NET

Java

Python

API design

Distributed systems

Agile

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

RabbitMQ

NServiceBus

Azure

AWS

Microsoft SQL Server

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

The Senior Software Engineer will join PanAgora’s Investment Engineering group and serve as a hands‑on technical partner to the teams that drive our investment business. This role designs, develops, and supports the proprietary applications that power the full investment lifecycle — spanning Investment Compliance, Portfolio Construction and Trading, Investment Operations, Sales and Client Reporting.

Working within a collaborative engineering team, the successful candidate will help shape the design, implementation, and evolution of the firm’s Investment Engineering platform while aligning with broader firmwide technology initiatives. This is a hands‑on engineering role focused on building reliable, scalable business applications.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

Application Design & Development

• Design, develop, and maintain proprietary applications supporting investment compliance, portfolio construction and trading, investment operations, sales and client reporting workflows.
• Implement and support investment compliance controls, including pre- and post-trade rule checks and related monitoring workflows, in partnership with the Compliance team.
• Build scalable, resilient, and high-performance distributed systems using modern software engineering practices.
• Develop APIs, microservices, and event-driven solutions that integrate with internal platforms and external vendors, custodians, and data providers.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and establish best practices for software design, reliability, security, and maintainability.
• Drive continuous improvement of development standards, code quality, testing, and deployment processes.

Business Partnership & Stakeholder Collaboration

• Work directly with Compliance, Portfolio Managers, Traders, Investment Operations, Sales and Client Reporting teams to understand business requirements and translate them into technology solutions.
• Participate in requirements gathering, solution design, and prioritization discussions across multiple business teams.
• Serve as a trusted technology partner to business stakeholders, providing technical guidance and recommendations.
• Conduct code reviews and promote engineering best practices across the team.

Production Support & Operations

• Monitor and support production applications critical to daily trading, compliance, operations, and reporting processes.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues across distributed systems and data platforms.
• Participate in an on-call rotation supporting critical end‑of‑day, trading, compliance, and reporting cycles.
• Conduct root cause analysis and implement preventative measures to improve platform stability and reliability.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or a closely related field).
• Minimum 5 years of professional software development experience, including significant experience building enterprise business applications.
• Expertise in one or more modern object‑oriented programming languages and backend frameworks, such as C# / .NET, Java, or Python; relational databases such as Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL); and RESTful APIs / service‑oriented architectures.
• Expertise in building and deploying applications on cloud technologies, including Microsoft Azure (App Service, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure SQL, Azure Functions, and Service Bus) or Amazon Web Services (EC2, EKS, RDS, Lambda, and S3).
• Experience designing and implementing microservices‑based systems.
• Experience with event‑driven architecture and messaging technologies such as RabbitMQ, NServiceBus, or similar platforms.
• Strong understanding of software design patterns, distributed systems, and system integration.
• Experience with source control, automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and Agile development practices.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to interact directly with business stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience within investment management, capital markets, or financial services.
• Experience developing front‑end applications.
• Experience supporting business‑critical applications in a front‑ or middle‑office environment.
• Familiarity with modern AI development workflows, including Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, AI‑powered coding assistants, and AI‑assisted code review and testing tools, while maintaining strong engineering standards.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem‑solving skills.

Company Overview

Founded in 1989, PanAgora (Greek for across marketplace) Asset Management is a premier provider of investment solutions spanning most major asset classes and risk ranges. We seek to provide investment solutions using sophisticated quantitative techniques that incorporate fundamental insights and vast amounts of market information. While PanAgora’s investment strategies are highly systematic in nature, the processes deployed within these strategies are built and overseen by talented professionals with significant and diverse investment experience. Innovative research plays a central role in our investment philosophy and process, and is an essential component of our firm’s ability to deliver attractive investment solutions. Investment teams are organized into an Equity Strategies group and a Multi Asset Strategies group. Most investment team members are engaged in original research using fundamental intuition, market intelligence, modern finance and scientific methods.

We are committed to providing clients with reliable investment processes, consistent performance, transparency, and access to our investment resources. Our client base is comprised of institutional investors across the globe, including public & private retirement funds, sovereign wealth funds, endowments & foundations, and sub‑advisory mandates.