Software Engineering Lead (New York, NY)

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About the Role:

Grade Level (for internal use):

11

About the Role

S&P Dow Jones Indices is seeking a highly experienced Lead Software Engineer to play a pivotal role in developing and maintaining our Fixed Income platforms. In this position, you will contribute to building scalable, reliable, and auditable solutions that support our index offerings. You will evaluate emerging technologies, lead system design efforts, and ensure the delivery of high-quality financial applications. This role involves hands-on development, team mentorship, and collaboration across cross-functional teams to drive innovation and operational excellence.

The Team

Our Fixed Income value stream focuses on delivering robust calculation engines essential for managing our fixed income indices. We operate with a product-first mindset, following Agile principles, and are committed to modernizing our technology stack to meet evolving industry standards. As a leader in this space, you will help shape the future of our index processing capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop high-performance calculation engines and services for fixed income indices, processing large-scale financial data efficiently.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement scalable, reliable solutions supporting critical business operations and client needs.
• Drive technical excellence through code reviews, architecture discussions, and establishing best practices for system reliability and maintainability.
• Work within Agile development cycles to deliver features that enhance our fixed income technology platform, aligning with industry standards.
• Mentor junior developers, fostering technical growth and knowledge sharing within the team.
• Lead initiatives to modernize existing systems and adopt new technologies to improve performance, scalability, and maintainability.
• Architect and oversee calculation engines and analytics services, balancing latency, throughput, cost, and accuracy.
• Implement end-to-end data lineage, reconciliation, anomaly detection, reproducibility, auditability, and version control across analytics models and data inputs/outputs.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of engineers and quantitative developers, setting clear expectations for technical quality and rigor.
• AI Integration: Design, develop, and deploy AI-driven solutions and machine learning models to enhance financial data processing, anomaly detection, data reconciliation, and advanced analytics.
• Independent Execution: Operate with a high degree of autonomy, quickly ramping up on complex financial domains and new technologies to drive the platform build-out with minimal oversight.

What We're Looking For:

Basic Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years of software development experience with Enterprise Java Development : Java 17/21 or equivalent JVM languages (such as Kotlin, Scala), including concurrency, JVM tuning, and memory management
• Enterprise Framework Experience : Spring ecosystem (Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Security) or comparable enterprise frameworks such as Quarkus, Micronaut, or Jakarta EE
• Distributed Systems Architecture : Microservices design patterns, RESTful API development, and experience with message brokers such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, Apache Pulsar, or Amazon SQS
• AI Engineering: hands-on experience building, deploying, and integrating AI/ML models, generative AI, or AI-driven analytics into enterprise software platforms
• Proficiency with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Extensive experience with SQL and NoSQL database technologies, including but not limited to PostgreSQL, document databases like MongoDB, and distributed databases such as Cassandra.
• Proven expertise in fixed income system design and analytics.
• Solid understanding of Agile methodologies and product development lifecycle.
• Cloud Expertise: Deep, hands-on proficiency with AWS for building scalable, distributed systems and microservices architectures.
• Autonomy & Agility: Demonstrated ability to work independently, learn complex new systems rapidly, and successfully lead greenfield platform buildouts.

Additional Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in financial services, especially fixed income securities, indices, or calculation engines.
• Experience with Python or other scripting languages for data processing and automation.
• Knowledge of containerization technologies such as Docker, orchestration platforms like Kubernetes, or enterprise container platforms including OpenShift.
• Experience with CI/CD platforms and DevOps practices using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps.
• Familiarity with performance optimization and high-frequency data processing systems.
• Experience with AI-augmented software engineering practices and AI coding assistants.

Compensation/Benefits Information (US Applicants Only):

S&P Global states that the anticipated base salary range for this position is $103,805 - $174,106. Final base salary for this role will be based on the individual's geographical location as well as experience and qualifications for the role.
In addition to base compensation, this role is eligible for an annual incentive plan. This role is not eligible for additional compensation such as an annual incentive bonus or sales commission plan.

 

This role is eligible to receive additional S&P Global benefits. For more information on the benefits we provide to our employees, please click here .

About S&P Global Dow Jones Indic e s  

At S&P Dow Jones Indices, we provide iconic and innovative index solutions backed by unparalleled expertise across the asset-class spectrum. By bringing transparency to the global capital markets, we empower investors everywhere to make decisions with conviction. We're the largest global resource for index-based concepts, data and research, and home to iconic financial market indicators, such as the S&P 500® and the Dow Jones Industrial Average ® . More assets are invested in products based upon our indices than any other index provider in the world. With over USD 7.4 trillion in passively managed assets linked to our indices and over USD 11.3 trillion benchmarked to our indices, our solutions are widely considered indispensable in tracking market performance, evaluating portfolios and developing investment strategies.  

S&P Dow Jones Indices is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI). S&P Global is the world's foremost provider of credit ratings, benchmarks, analytics and workflow solutions in the global capital, commodity and automotive markets. With every one of our offerings, we help many of the world's leading organizations navigate the economic landscape so they can plan for tomorrow, today. For more information, visit  

What's In It For You?

Our Mission:

Advancing Essential Intelligence.

Our People:

We're more than 35,000 strong worldwide-so we're able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.From finding new ways to measure sustainability to analyzing energy transition across the supply chain to building workflow solutions that make it easy to tap into insight and apply it. We are changing the way people see things and empowering them to make an impact on the world we live in. We're committed to a more equitable future and to helping our customers find new, sustainable ways of doing business. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference.

Our Values:

Integrity, Discovery, Partnership

Throughout our history, the world's leading organizations have relied on us for the Essential Intelligence they need to make confident decisions about the road ahead. We start with a foundation of integrity in all we do, bring a spirit of discovery to our work, and collaborate in close partnership with each other and our customers to achieve shared goals.

Benefits:

We take care of you, so you can take care of business. We care about our people. That's why we provide everything you-and your career-need to thrive at S&P Global.

Our benefits include: 

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