Aqr Capital Management LLC
Portfolio Analytics Engineer - Vice President
Greenwich, CT · Exec
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About the role
- As a Senior Software Engineer in Portfolio Implementation, you will operate with broad ownership and technical authority across core investment systems, including:
- Owning and evolving distributed, microservice-based systems that operate reliably at scale
- Delivering complex, cross-cutting initiatives that span multiple services, teams
Responsibilities
- We recognize and respect the power of collaboration, and we believe transparency and openness to new ideas leads to innovation.
- Leading the design and implementation of portfolio implementation platforms that consume research outputs, perform constrained optimizations, and generate orders
- Lead architectural design for high-performance, high-volume, highly available systems, making informed trade-offs across performance, flexibility, and maintainability
- Providing technical leadership to small teams (typically 2-5 engineers), including task planning, design reviews, and execution oversight
- Mentoring and coaching engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and hands-on guidance
Compensation
- The salary range for this role is expected to be [$165,000-$185,000].
Benefits
- Strong command of engineering best practices, including code quality, design documentation, peer code reviews, automated testing, and test coverage
Company info
- Technology is central to AQR's success.
- As a Senior Software Engineer in Portfolio Implementation, you will lead the design and delivery of complex, mission-critical systems that turn investment ideas into reality.
- Working closely with researchers, portfolio managers, and engineering peers, you will drive large-scale technical initiatives while mentoring engineers and raising the bar for engineering excellence across the team.
- We strive to deliver superior, long-term results for our clients by looking past market noise to identify and isolate what matters most, and by developing ideas that stand up to rigorous testing.
- Partnering with a global team of researchers, portfolio managers and engineers to deliver robust, production-quality solutions on time
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