Software Engineer - Funds & Inst

Category
Investments
City
Jersey City

The Role

About Lord Abbett:

 

Founded in 1929, Lord Abbett is an independent firm with a singular focus on the management of money. Over the course of our history, we’ve earned a sterling reputation for our leadership, influence, and innovation in the asset management industry. Today, our independent perspective, our commitment to active management, and our intelligent product design continue to make us relevant to individual and institutional investors.

 

From the very beginning, we’ve recognized that our people are our greatest asset. As an investment-led, investor-focused firm, we value intellectual curiosity, teamwork, and collaboration across the organization.

 

We’re looking for people with a keen interest in working for a trusted leader in the asset management industry, a desire to expand their knowledge, and a passion for delivering a client experience that exceeds expectations.

 
Now that you know our history, are you ready to be part of our future?

 


Job Overview:

 

We are seeking a self-driven developer, motivated to achieve results, with a high standard for work deliverables, to join the Investment Platforms team.  You will be responsible for developing various modules of our portfolio modeling and order management applications managed by our team for our Taxable Separated Managed Accounts (SMA) and Alternative business.  This is an opportunity to join a fast-paced environment, with ability to learn about the asset management industry and have an impact on many strategic initiatives around investment Platforms. 

We’ll trust you to:

  • Design and develop software modules to meet the business requirements.
  • Analyze existing software code and make enhancements for new requirements.
  • Work under limited guidance
  • Actively think about system stability and enhancing our applications
  • Understand and deeply focus on the real-world benefit your systems and products will have on our end users
  • A strong desire to document and share work done to aid in long term support.

You'll need to have:

  • BS/BA degree or equivalent experience with 5-8 years of experience in design, applications development, production support of modern web applications using Rest API, and J2EE/JAVA Architecture.
  • Strong experience in Spring Framework such as Spring MVC, IOC, AOP and Spring JDBC.
  • Experience in designing front end interfaces using HTML5, JavaScript, Bootstrap, ReactJS.
  • Unit and integration testing using Junit and Mockito.
  • Familiar with DevOps tools and experience in CI/CD software.
  • Experience with messaging technologies like Kafka.
  • Experience leveraging open-source technologies and developing with service-oriented architecture.
  • Expertise in architecting and developing highly reliable, fault-tolerant distributed applications with a focus on performance and scale.
  • Experience in database system like SQL Server, PostgreSQL is a must.
  • Good problem solving, intellectual curiosity and analytical abilities.
  • Demonstrates good communication skills and comfortable working across many teams.
  • Should have diverse financial experience in front office technologies and processes.

Why Lord Abbett?

Lord Abbett is a leading global independent, privately held investment management company. We are active managers and invest where we believe we have a repeatable edge and can deliver alpha for our clients. Our vision is to be the most respected asset manager in the world, admired for our people, our performance, our relationships, and our organizational agility. This inspires the three pillars of our culture.

  • Principles-Led - We empower our leaders to create an environment of trust.
  • Performance-Oriented - We inspire our people to embody our values, excellence, responsibility, transparency & collaboration.
  • Purpose-Driven - Embraces our mission: Securing a sustainable future for our clients, people, and world.

We are honored to have earned recognition as one of the Best Places to Work in Money Management by Pensions & Investments and scored 100% on the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index, a measure of LGBTQ+ workplace equality.  

 

Compensation Information: Annual base salary for this role is $120,000 - $145,000. Salary is estimated for this role. Actual pay may be different.

Discretionary Bonus: Role may be eligible to receive an annual discretionary bonus. Discretionary bonuses are determined by several factors including, but not limited to, firm, team, and individual performance. 

Benefits: Lord Abbett is committed to offering a competitive total rewards package to all eligible employees. Offerings include competitive total compensation, retirement plans, competitive health and well-being plans. To learn more about what we offer, please visit Careers | Lord Abbett

 

Lord Abbett is an equal employment opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals without regard to the following legally protected characteristics: race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, sexual identity, caregiver status, military/veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal law. All employment decisions at Lord Abbett are based solely on the applicant’s relevant experience, skills and qualifications.

 

Important notice to Search Firms - Please Read Carefully
Without prior written agreement, Lord Abbett does not accept unsolicited submissions from employment agencies, search firms, placement services, or any similar provider (“Search Firms”) for employment opportunities. All candidates submitted by Search Firms to any employee or partner at our company without a written Search Firm agreement in place will be deemed the sole property of our company. In such circumstances, no fee, commission, or other compensation will be paid to such Search Firm in the event a candidate is hired by our company. To the extent a Search Firm has a written agreement in place, all introductions are position specific and should be directed to HR or the hiring manager, so we kindly request no unsolicited phone calls or emails.

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