Senior Software Engineer

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 Search

POSITION

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to contribute to the ongoing development and enhancement of our enterprise search platform, which powers content discovery and knowledge access across our Investment and Research organization.

This role will focus on expanding our Search platform capabilities, improving search quality, performance and resiliency, integrating new data sources, and delivering search-driven features for internal applications. You will work closely with the our Lead Search Engineer, taking on significant technical responsibility and contributing to the platform's continued evolution and operational excellence.

The ideal candidate is a strong backend engineer with meaningful experience building and operating search solutions in production environments. Deep familiarity with OpenSearch or Elasticsearch is strongly preferred, but experience with comparable search technologies is also valued.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement new search-driven features and enhancements within our existing enterprise search platform.
• Develop and maintain backend services and APIs that leverage search capabilities across multiple internal systems.
• Improve search relevance, performance, and usability through thoughtful index design, query optimization, and ranking strategies.
• Expand and maintain ingestion pipelines to incorporate structured and unstructured data from enterprise systems.
• Optimize indexing strategies, mappings, analyzers, and query patterns to support evolving business requirements.
• Monitor cluster health and performance, contributing to scaling, resiliency, and cost optimization efforts.
• Collaborate on architectural decisions, technical standards, and roadmap execution.
• Partner with application teams, data engineers, and business stakeholders to translate search use cases into scalable implementations.
• Contribute to testing, observability, and operational best practices for production search workloads.
• Troubleshoot production issues and proactively address bottlenecks or quality gaps.

Qualifications

• 6-10+ years of professional software engineering experience with a strong backend focus.
• Hands-on experience implementing and operating search solutions in production environments.
• Experience with Elasticsearch or OpenSearch strongly preferred; experience with other enterprise search technologies will also be considered.
• Practical understanding of:
  • Index design and schema modeling
  • Query construction and optimization
  • Relevance tuning and scoring strategies
  • Cluster sizing and scaling considerations
• Proficiency in Node.JS, Python, or a comparable backend language.
• Experience designing and building RESTful APIs and distributed services.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems fundamentals, including replication, sharding, and fault tolerance.
• Experience working with AWS cloud services; familiarity with managed search services is a plus.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and containerization (e.g., Docker).
• Exposure to semantic search, vector search, or AI-enhanced retrieval techniques is a plus.
• Experience in financial services or other enterprise environments is preferred.

Preferred Attributes

• Strong problem-solving skills with a disciplined approach to search quality and performance optimization.
• Ability to independently own significant technical components within an established platform.
• Comfortable operating in a production-critical environment with high standards for reliability.
• Clear communicator who can explain technical tradeoffs related to relevance, latency, and scalability.
• High attention to detail and commitment to engineering excellence.

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 ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal 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 .

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.