The posting
About Us
Wellington Management offers comprehensive investment management capabilities that span nearly all segments of the global capital markets. Our investment solutions, tailored to the unique return and risk objectives of institutional clients in more than 60 countries, draw on a robust body of proprietary research and a collaborative culture that encourages independent thought and healthy debate. As a private partnership, we believe our ownership structure fosters a long-term view that aligns our perspectives with those of our clients.
About the Role
Senior Software Engineer – Enterprise Limits & Restrictions (ELR)
We are expanding our Enterprise Limits & Restrictions (ELR) engineering team and are seeking a highly motivated Senior Software Engineer to help build and support Wellington's investment compliance and trading controls platform. The ELR platform plays a critical role in safeguarding investment decisions and trading activity by ensuring compliance with firmwide, client, and regulatory restrictions.
Beyond compliance controls, the team is responsible for key elements of Wellington's trading technology ecosystem, including the FIX connectivity infrastructure that enables real-time communication between Wellington and broker-dealers, and external trading venues around the globe.
This role offers a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of compliance and trading technology. Engineers on the team solve complex business and technical challenges, collaborate with stakeholders across various business and technology groups such as Legal and Compliance, Derivatives Onboarding, Trading and Investment Technology.
Qualifications
- 7–10+ years of hands-on software development experience using Java and J2EE technologies (currently utilizing Java 17; Java 11 experience is acceptable)
- Strong experience with Spring and Spring Boot frameworks
- Solid understanding of distributed, multi-threaded, and high-performance systems
- Experience designing, developing, and supporting RESTful APIs and event-driven architectures
- Experience with AWS cloud technologies and CI/CD pipelines, including Jenkins, is highly desirable
- Experience building highly available systems supporting critical business workflows
- Experience with complex event processing (Esper Framework) is an added advantage.
- Demonstrated use of AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code) to improve development productivity and code quality
- Strong communication, analytical, design, problem-solving, and data modeling skills
- Experience with software development lifecycle methodologies and automated testing
- Ability to collaborate effectively across business and technology teamsBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical design, development, deployment, and support of the Enterprise Limits & Restrictions (ELR) platform
- Develop and maintain scalable, reliable, and secure backend services supporting workflows that evaluate regulatory, client and firmwide restrictions
- Work closely with Project Managers, Business Analysts, Technical Leads, and Quality Engineering teams on estimation, planning, delivery, issue resolution, and risk management
- Support tier-1 production systems, troubleshoot complex issues, and drive continuous improvements in system stability, performance, and scalability
- Promote engineering excellence through code reviews, mentoring, automated testing, observability, and modern development practices
- Stay current with evolving industry and technical trends, including AI-assisted development tools, to ensure systems and team are of the highest caliber
- Participate in the modernization and enhancement of compliance platforms, helping to drive innovation and operational efficiency across the investment technology ecosystem
JOB TITLE
Senior Software Engineer
JOB FAMILY
Software Engineering
LOCATION
280 Congress
Not sure you meet 100% of our qualifications? That’s ok. If you believe that you could excel in this role, we encourage you to apply and welcome a chance to review your background. We are dedicated to building and maintaining a diversified workforce and considering a broad array of candidates with a variety of skill, workplace experiences, and backgrounds.
As an equal opportunity employer, Wellington Management considers all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, religion, creed, national origin, age, ancestry, disability (physical or mental), medical condition, citizenship, marital status, pregnancy, veteran or military status, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. If you are a candidate with a disability, or are assisting a candidate with a disability, and require an accommodation to apply for one of our jobs, please email us at [email protected].
At Wellington Management, our approach to compensation is designed to help us attract, inspire and retain the best talent in our industry. We strive to pay employees fairly and competitively across all levels and roles. Our approach to compensation considers all aspects of total compensation; all employees are eligible to receive salary, variable compensation, and benefits. The base salary range for this position is:
USD 90,000 - 180,000
This range takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered when making compensation decisions, including but not limited to skill sets; role; skills and experience; certifications; and education. This range is an estimate, and further details on salary and total compensation aspects will be shared with candidates during the recruitment process.
Base salary is only one component of Wellington’s total compensation approach. Other rewards may include a discretionary Corporate Bonus and/ or Incentives, if eligible. In addition, we offer a comprehensive and high value benefit package to meet the unique needs of our employees and their families, and we are committed to fostering a flexible work environment that enables employees to thrive personally and professionally. Examples of our benefits include retirement plan, health and wellbeing, dental, vision, and pharmacy coverage, health savings account, flexible spending accounts and commuter program, employee assistance program, life and disability insurance, adoption assistance, back-up childcare, tuition/CFA reimbursement and paid time off (leave of absence, paid holidays, volunteer, sick and vacation time).
We believe that in person interactions inspire and energize our community and are essential to our culture. In support of this commitment, our employees work from our offices 4 days a week with flexibility to work remotely 1 day a week. We believe that this approach ultimately supports our mission to deliver investment excellence to our clients and their beneficiaries over the long term.
