Lead Platform Engineer, Python, AWS

🕒 February 16

🏢🏡 Boston – Hybrid

💵 $100k - $225k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Wellington Management

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1933

💸 Finance

Finance • Investing • Asset Management

Wellington Management is one of the world’s leading independent asset managers, founded in 1928 and headquartered in Boston. The firm manages over USD 1 trillion in client assets and provides a range of investment solutions across multiple asset classes, including equity, fixed income, alternatives, and private investments. With a collaborative culture that prioritizes innovation and accountability to clients, Wellington combines deep research resources with independent portfolio teams to deliver integrated investment strategies.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and maintain core platform services and APIs • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand requirements and deliver scalable solutions • Implement infrastructure automation and CI/CD pipelines using modern DevOps tools • Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and technical planning • Participate in all phases of the software development lifecycle: architecture, design, implementation, deployment, and support • Ensure that team adheres to established development standards such as continuous integration, code reviews, and technical documentation • Monitor and optimize system performance, reliability, and security

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering • Proficient in Python with experience building tools using widely adopted libraries such as Pandas, NumPy, Requests, BeautifulSoup, FastAPI, and SQLAlchemy • Skilled in packaging, testing, and deploying Python applications using tools like pytest, setuptools, Docker, and Git; familiarity with CI/CD workflows is a plus • Hands-on experience designing, deploying, and managing cloud-native applications using AWS services (e.g., EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, CloudFormation), with a strong grasp of scalable and secure architecture principles • Proficiency in DevOps practices including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, Jenkins), and container orchestration using ECS or EKS • Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and performance optimization tools (e.g., CloudWatch, X-Ray); AWS certification is a plus • Experience building and maintaining published libraries, frameworks, and services that support a wide range of teams/departments • Excellent written and verbal communication • Attention to detail, self-discipline and passion to drive and innovate • Must be comfortable with test-driven development, continuous integration, and agile development methodologies using tools like GIT, Artifactory, and Jenkins • Experience working with offshore development teams is a plus • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, engineering, math, or related field, or equivalent experience is preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• retirement plan • health and wellbeing • dental, vision, and pharmacy coverage • health savings account • flexible spending accounts • commuter program • employee assistance program • life and disability insurance • adoption assistance • back-up childcare • tuition/CFA reimbursement • paid time off (leave of absence, paid holidays, volunteer, sick and vacation time)