Lord Abbett.com
Software Engineer
Lord Abbett.com, Jersey City, New Jersey, United States, 07390
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 a part of our future?
Job Overview:
Lord Abbett is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Software Engineer to join our development team and contribute to the ongoing development of our analytics platforms. You will be expected to possess deep technical expertise in our tech stack and stay abreast of the latest industry technology trends. We value team members who are driven to achieve results, maintain high quality standards, and exhibit a flexible entrepreneurial spirit in the face of scope changes. This position is poised to evolve into a team lead role, requiring you to guide a team of senior developers, actively participate in strategic discussions, and drive projects to successful implementation. You will be joining a fast-moving team that requires the ability to work autonomously while also collaborating closely with others.
What makes this role interesting?The Investment Analytics Technology team is currently investing significantly in building out credit analytics platforms.The candidate will have significant opportunities to contribute to this project at the ground level.The candidate will work alongside an established team of developers, quantitative analysts, and portfolio managers to create analytics platforms encompassing quantitative modeling, risk analytics, ESG metrics, and data insights.The candidate will work closely with professional investment staff and expand their financial knowledge across asset classes, markets, and instruments.We'll trust you to:
Design and develop next-generation equity and credit analytics platforms.Collaborate closely with business partners and analysts to understand data requirements and analyze and design the necessary data pipeline and database design.Design, implement and maintain data pipelines that can efficiently and reliably ingest and store data from a variety of internal and external sources.Develop robust quality control processing, monitoring, and workflow dashboards.Proficient in handling backend database work, well-versed in Python or Java, with the expertise to process and load data seamlessly into databases.Integrate risk and quantitative models.Simplify and automate existing manual data processes.Provide support for overnight batch jobs.Lead a team of developers.Participate in strategic discussions.Work closely with a team of frontend and backend engineers, product managers, and analysts.You'll need to have:
Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Math, or related work experienceHighly experienced candidate with a minimum of 6+ years of expertise in application design, coding, testing, maintenance, and debugging.The ideal candidate will have a strong proficiency in Java, Python, REST, Microservices, Spring Boot, and API gateway.6+ years of experience programming in SQL queries, stored procedures, query optimization performance tuning (Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL or Oracle)Experience working with various cloud technologies, including AWS, Azure, GCP, Snowflake, Spark, and their associated toolsExperience creating and maintaining Conceptual, Logical, and Physical data modelsAbility to identify opportunities to reuse data and reduce redundancy across the enterpriseExperience with Git/GitHubExperience with DevOps tools like Jira, Confluence, and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins)Skills:
Strong analytical skillsCandidate must be willing to take full ownership of projects, covering discovery, analysis, technical design and implementation, testing, and deployment tasksMust demonstrate good communication skills and be comfortable working closely with senior quantitative analysts, risk analysts and business partnersA strong desire to document and share work done to aid in long term supportCandidate must be a self-starter, a dependable partner, and team playerSpecial Knowledge (nice to have, but not required):
Experience with market data vendors - Bloomberg, Markit, ICE/BAML, S&P, Moodys, Fitch, Russell, Intex, JPM, Factset, State Street, CRD, and YieldbookExperience working on distributed system and handling & processing of large-scale data (trades, risk, market data etc)Experience working in the finance industryKnowledge of fixed income analytics for asset types such as Corporate bonds, Treasuries, Derivatives, Sovereigns, Bank Loans, MBS, ABS, and CLOWhy 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 - We instill a passion for always putting our clients' interests first.
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 $135,000 - $155,000. 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.
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 a part of our future?
Job Overview:
Lord Abbett is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Software Engineer to join our development team and contribute to the ongoing development of our analytics platforms. You will be expected to possess deep technical expertise in our tech stack and stay abreast of the latest industry technology trends. We value team members who are driven to achieve results, maintain high quality standards, and exhibit a flexible entrepreneurial spirit in the face of scope changes. This position is poised to evolve into a team lead role, requiring you to guide a team of senior developers, actively participate in strategic discussions, and drive projects to successful implementation. You will be joining a fast-moving team that requires the ability to work autonomously while also collaborating closely with others.
What makes this role interesting?The Investment Analytics Technology team is currently investing significantly in building out credit analytics platforms.The candidate will have significant opportunities to contribute to this project at the ground level.The candidate will work alongside an established team of developers, quantitative analysts, and portfolio managers to create analytics platforms encompassing quantitative modeling, risk analytics, ESG metrics, and data insights.The candidate will work closely with professional investment staff and expand their financial knowledge across asset classes, markets, and instruments.We'll trust you to:
Design and develop next-generation equity and credit analytics platforms.Collaborate closely with business partners and analysts to understand data requirements and analyze and design the necessary data pipeline and database design.Design, implement and maintain data pipelines that can efficiently and reliably ingest and store data from a variety of internal and external sources.Develop robust quality control processing, monitoring, and workflow dashboards.Proficient in handling backend database work, well-versed in Python or Java, with the expertise to process and load data seamlessly into databases.Integrate risk and quantitative models.Simplify and automate existing manual data processes.Provide support for overnight batch jobs.Lead a team of developers.Participate in strategic discussions.Work closely with a team of frontend and backend engineers, product managers, and analysts.You'll need to have:
Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Math, or related work experienceHighly experienced candidate with a minimum of 6+ years of expertise in application design, coding, testing, maintenance, and debugging.The ideal candidate will have a strong proficiency in Java, Python, REST, Microservices, Spring Boot, and API gateway.6+ years of experience programming in SQL queries, stored procedures, query optimization performance tuning (Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL or Oracle)Experience working with various cloud technologies, including AWS, Azure, GCP, Snowflake, Spark, and their associated toolsExperience creating and maintaining Conceptual, Logical, and Physical data modelsAbility to identify opportunities to reuse data and reduce redundancy across the enterpriseExperience with Git/GitHubExperience with DevOps tools like Jira, Confluence, and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins)Skills:
Strong analytical skillsCandidate must be willing to take full ownership of projects, covering discovery, analysis, technical design and implementation, testing, and deployment tasksMust demonstrate good communication skills and be comfortable working closely with senior quantitative analysts, risk analysts and business partnersA strong desire to document and share work done to aid in long term supportCandidate must be a self-starter, a dependable partner, and team playerSpecial Knowledge (nice to have, but not required):
Experience with market data vendors - Bloomberg, Markit, ICE/BAML, S&P, Moodys, Fitch, Russell, Intex, JPM, Factset, State Street, CRD, and YieldbookExperience working on distributed system and handling & processing of large-scale data (trades, risk, market data etc)Experience working in the finance industryKnowledge of fixed income analytics for asset types such as Corporate bonds, Treasuries, Derivatives, Sovereigns, Bank Loans, MBS, ABS, and CLOWhy 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 - We instill a passion for always putting our clients' interests first.
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 $135,000 - $155,000. 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.