Software Engineering Manager – Investments

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Missouri.

📋 Description

• Lead, mentor, and cultivate software engineers throughout the entire employee lifecycle.

• Take ownership of consistent delivery and operational results for products and services.

• Forge trusted relationships with leaders in Investments, Investment Operations, and Investment Accounting.

• Comprehend processes and control points across portfolio management, trading, settlement, positions, valuations, performance, risk, cash, securities accounting, reconciliation, and financial reporting.

• Collaborate with Product Management and Product Owners on roadmaps, outcomes, dependencies, capacity, and engineering tasks.

• Work alongside architecture teams to implement target-state architecture and approved patterns.

• Set standards for secure coding, peer reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability, documentation, release management, and maintainability.

• Guide the delivery of modern web applications, services, data pipelines, and integrations utilizing cloud-native, serverless, containerized, API-first, event-driven, streaming, batch, and file-based patterns.

• Oversee engineering efforts related to investment platforms and external providers.

• Manage vendor performance, upgrades, integration strategies, and decisions regarding build versus buy versus configure.

• Ensure production services meet expectations for availability, recoverability, performance, monitoring, incident response, problem management, and disaster recovery.

• Integrate security, privacy, segregation of duties, data lineage, traceability, logging, evidence retention, and control requirements into the delivery process.

• Oversee team budget, vendor expenditures, staffing composition, hiring, capacity, and forecasts.

• Assess and responsibly implement emerging technologies, including generative AI and agentic engineering tools.

• Communicate updates on delivery progress, operational health, risks, dependencies, investment needs, and decisions to technical, business, and executive audiences.

• Perform additional duties as assigned.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience (required).

• 9+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, application development, platform engineering, data engineering, or related technology disciplines (required).

• 3+ years of formal people-management experience leading software engineering teams (required).

• Accountability for delivering and operating business-critical technology products or platforms in a complex enterprise environment.

• Experience supporting investments, asset management, investment accounting, capital markets, treasury, finance, or related business capabilities.

• Experience working in an agile, product-oriented technology organization.

• Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices, APIs, event-driven architecture, automated testing, secure software development, source control, CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure as code.

• Proficient in modern application, data, and cloud technologies.

• Hands-on experience with AWS or a similar public-cloud ecosystem.

• Practical knowledge of investment data and processes.

• Familiarity with front-, middle-, and back-office operating models and IBOR/ABOR concepts.

• Knowledge of one or more asset classes.

• Ability to lead engineering teams that integrate with investment platforms, accounting systems, market-data providers, custodians, and internal data platforms.

• Understanding of financial and insurance control environments, auditability, data lineage, access controls, change management, segregation of duties, model governance, SOX ITGC, and SOC reporting.

• Advanced skills in leadership, communication, facilitation, negotiation, and stakeholder management.

• Ability to manage multiple priorities and dependencies while making timely decisions with incomplete information.

• Dedication to continuous learning, inclusive leadership, constructive feedback, and empowering engineering teams.

🏝️ Benefits

• Annual bonus plan.

• Eligibility for long-term equity incentive plans for certain positions.

• Health benefits.

• Retirement benefits.

• Additional employee benefits.

• Opportunities for career development.

• A diverse, supportive team and a respectful, welcoming work environment.