Senior Software Engineer

Lord Abbett is seeking a Senior Software Engineer who is self-driven, motivated to achieve results, with a high standard for work deliverables, to join the Investment Platforms Technology team. You will be responsible for developing various modules of our portfolio modeling and order management applications managed by investment platform technology team for our SMA business that manages investment portfolio tailored to the specific goals, risk tolerance, and preferences of a single investor. 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.

• Design and develop our next generation order management and trading systems supporting our SMA Investment Professionals.
• Analyze existing software code, update code to meet the enhancement needs.
• Work closely with business team and stakeholders to understand the business requirements.
• Design, implement and maintain data pipelines for both inbound and outbound data interfaces to integrate with both internal and external systems.
• Innovate by applying advanced analytical thinking and knowledge of related fields to enable digital transformation to enhance business workflows.
• Take ownership of stewarding the culture with your colleagues.

• Bachelor's or master's degree or equivalent experience with 12+ years of experience in applications developing, testing, documentation, production support, modern web applications using Rest API, caching, Kafka and J2EE/JAVA Architecture.
• Strong experience in Spring Framework such as Spring MVC, IOC, AOP and Spring JDBC.
• Unit and integration testing using Junit and Mockito.
• Experience in React or knowledge of frontend frameworks and web technologies.
• Familiar with DevOps tools and experience in CI/CD software.
• Experience with source control system like GIT (preferred), Azure ADO or similar
• Experience in database systems like SQL Server, PostgreSQL is a must.
• Good problem solving, intellectual curiosity and analytical abilities
• Demonstrates good communication skills and comfortable working with many teams
• Should have diverse financial experience in front office technologies and processes.
• Knowledge of municipal trading and tools will be plus.
• Ability to work in large, collaborative teams to achieve organizational goals

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-Based - 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 have been ranked #1 in Barron's Best Fund Families for 2024 and have earned recognition as one of the Best Places to Work in Money Management by Pensions & Investments for five consecutive years.

Compensation Information: Annual base salary for this role is $165,000 - $175,000. 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.