Senior full stack engineer

About Us

Wellington Management offers comprehensive investment management capabilities that span nearly all segments of the global capital markets. Our investment solutions, tailored to the unique return and risk objectives of institutional clients in more than 60 countries, draw on a robust body of proprietary research and a collaborative culture that encourages independent thought and healthy debate. As a private partnership, we believe our ownership structure fosters a long-term view that aligns our perspectives with those of our clients.

About the Role

We are seeking qualified candidates to join our evolving and expanding technology team. Together, you will not only dream up solutions to today’s investment challenges, but you will build them in order to see real-life results.

Technology needs are advancing, and this level of complexity requires a highly sophisticated well-managed technology platform that is built by people like you. This is your chance to build something incredible.

We are focused solely on creating the best-in-breed tools used by our investors to conduct research and build portfolios. We build a seamless and cohesive platform across all asset classes. We want you to think big, to solve challenges, and work with our investors.

Job Overview

Our technology teams are responsible for building an application platform used by other development teams across Wellington to build and deploy portfolio manager facing applications (including research & collaboration, modelling, and order submission). Additionally, it maintains the coding standards and best practices as well as the deployment and CI/CD patterns for other teams and maintains the core services used by all teams on the platform.

We are seeking a candidate for a Sr Software Engineer who can work closely with other members of IT including other developers, business analysts and QA engineers to design, develop, test, implement and support solutions to meet business requirements.

This individual will help design new platform functionality (collaborating with stakeholders) and help other developers use the solutions they build.

This individual will contribute to the development of a new platform for producing, consuming and collaborating on investment content, as well as to support highly customized homegrown solutions and vendor products.

Responsibilities

• Work with business teams, project managers, and systems analysts to review and qualify business requirements, functional specifications, use-cases, and test plans

• Design, prototype and code new software components and applications based on functional specifications across the full stack – services, web and mobile clients, infrastructure and back-end

• Coordinate with analyst teams and vendors to execute test plans and provide support during user acceptance testing

• Modify and enhance existing systems to incorporate new functionality and to optimize them for performance

• Author technical design and support documentation

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience designing and developing web applications and services using JavaScript and other relevant enterprise technologies (e.g. Java, .Net)

• Demonstrated experience designing and developing complex web services using REST, JavaScript/NodeJS, Java and related technologies

• Familiarity with developing web applications using HTML5, CSS and modern UI frameworks such as Angular and React

• Experience with, and a demonstrated understanding of, modern software development and testing methodologies such as Artifactory, GIT, and Jenkins CI

• Experience developing application with cloud technologies such as AWS desired

• Ability to understand in-house applications and highly complex and interrelated systems and processing

• Experience with various software development methodologies, such as Agile

• Excellent written and verbal communications skills

• Ability and willingness to work in an energetic, fast-paced, team-oriented environment

• Ability to work independently

• Ability to manage conflicting priorities effectively

• Ability and willingness to work effectively in a business-critical production environment

Additional Job Description

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience building production systems (or equivalent depth).

• Back‑end: Java 11+ (Spring Boot), Python 3.x; REST/GraphQL APIs; messaging/streaming (e.g., SNS/SQS/Kafka).

• Front‑end: React 18+, TypeScript, modern state management, component testing (Jest/RTL/Cypress), accessibility and performance best practices.

• Cloud & DevOps: AWS (ECS/EKS/Lambda, S3, RDS, CloudWatch), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), CI/CD (e.g., GitHub Actions/Jenkins/GitLab), IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation).

• Data: Strong Oracle experience (SQL/PL‑SQL, indexing/partitioning, query tuning, transaction semantics).

• Quality & Reliability: automated testing, observability, and production support/on‑call rotation experience.

• Ways of working: Agile delivery, excellent collaboration and communication skills, and a track record of independent problem solving.

Nice To Have

• Capital markets domain knowledge: order/execution workflows, market data (e.g., Bloomberg, Refinitiv), FIX protocols, pricing/risk, reference data.

• Performance engineering (profiling, JVM tuning, front‑end perf budgets), cost optimization on AWS.

• Security fundamentals (OAuth2/OIDC, mTLS, OWASP, KMS/HashiCorp Vault).

Not sure you meet 100% of our qualifications? That’s ok. If you believe that you could excel in this role, we encourage you to apply and welcome a chance to review your background. We are dedicated to building and maintaining a diversified workforce and considering a broad array of candidates with a variety of skill, workplace experiences, and backgrounds.

As an equal opportunity employer, Wellington Management ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, religion, creed, national origin, age, ancestry, disability (physical or mental), medical condition, citizenship, marital status, pregnancy, veteran or military status, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. If you are a candidate with a disability, or are assisting a candidate with a disability, and require an accommodation to apply for one of our jobs, please email us at

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At Wellington Management, our approach to compensation is designed to help us attract, inspire and retain the best talent in our industry. We strive to pay employees fairly and competitively across all levels and roles. Our approach to compensation considers all aspects of total compensation; all employees are eligible to receive salary, variable compensation, and benefits. The base salary range for this position is:

This range takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered when making compensation decisions, including but not limited to skill sets; role; skills and experience; certifications; and education. This range is an estimate, and further details on salary and total compensation aspects will be shared with candidates during the recruitment process.

Base salary is only one component of Wellington’s total compensation approach. Other rewards may include a discretionary Corporate Bonus and/ or Incentives, if eligible. In addition, we offer a comprehensive and high value benefit package to meet the unique needs of our employees and their families, and we are committed to fostering a flexible work environment that enables employees to thrive personally and professionally. Examples of our benefits include retirement plan, health and wellbeing, dental, vision, and pharmacy coverage, health savings account, flexible spending accounts and commuter program, employee assistance program, life and disability insurance, adoption assistance, back-up childcare, tuition/CFA reimbursement and paid time off (leave of absence, paid holidays, volunteer, sick and vacation time)

We believe that in person interactions inspire and energize our community and are essential to our culture. In support of this commitment, our employees work from our offices 4 days a week with flexibility to work remotely 1 day a week. We believe that this approach ultimately supports our mission to deliver investment excellence to our clients and their beneficiaries over the long term.