AQR

AQR

Portfolio Analytics Engineer - Vice President

Greenwich, CT · Exec

Sponsorship not specified$165k-$185kDetected 1 day ago
PythonJavaDistributed SystemsCode ReviewSQLPostgreSQLRedisElasticsearchRabbitMQTest AutomationResearchLeadershipCollaborationMentoring

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

Equal opportunity

  • AQR is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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