About the position
The Lead Software Engineer is responsible for providing technical leadership, project management, process development, training and support. The role will work across and within the Equity Investments and Client Activities team as well as Core Services and externally facing Digital Team. This role will enhance the Direct Indexing business priorities, to design and develop technology solutions, and to improve business processes. This role spans across many services within the team building out underlying components that will provide critical services to the Equity Portfolio Management Platform. These services will help streamline the rule-based portfolio analytics, order generation and straight through processing allow for exception driven portfolio management. This position will report into the [Equity Services] team and work closely with team leads across Technology teams, Business Analysis as well as Business Partners. In this role, you will lead developers and projects and provide mentoring opportunities to the development team. A critical objective for this role is to support the architecture and deliver scalable enterprise solutions, leveraging AWS cloud native technologies, designing and implementing micro-services and a relentless focus on performance and resilience.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop proprietary solutions for the Equity Direct Indexing portfolio management teams
- Provide technical leadership to other Software Engineers
- Design, develop, and maintain services and API to support various business needs
- Leverage scalable and distributed computing principles to build the next generation of services
- Ensure that software solutions remain integrated, efficient, and appropriate for a highly regulated industry
- Create unit/integration/functional/performance tests
- Mentor new or less senior developers
- Conduct code reviews of other developers
- Share experience, knowledge, and ideas to the team to improve processes and productivity
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related area of study
- 8+ years of hands-on development experience managing all aspects of technical projects with a proven track record of delivering well architected and well written software solutions
- Experience supervising and guiding software development teams and fostering an engaging, collaborative environment
- 7+ Years of hands-on Java/J2EE software design and development experience
- Strong hands-on experience developing API using GraphQL/REST
- Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills
- Cloud native development experience a plus: AWS is preferred, but not required
- Strong aptitude for highly efficient data structures and algorithms
- Strong knowledge of relational databases and SQL
- Working knowledge of NoSQL database engines such as Redis, Cassandra, or MongoDB
- Proven track record of becoming a subject matter expert in areas related to current assignments
- Strong leadership skills including: Communication, Total quality commitment, Ownership and accountability, Project management
- A creative, self-confident self-motivator with a 'can do' spirit
- Passionate, forward thinking and creative individual with high ethical standards and integrity
- Ability to collaborate and partner across a diverse team tapping the strength and unique skills of every team member
Benefits
- 401k
- 401k_matching
- dental_insurance
- health_insurance
- vision_insurance
- life_insurance
- disability_insurance
- paid_holidays
- paid_volunteer_time
- tuition_reimbursement
- professional_development
- flexible_scheduling
- unlimited_pto
