Sr. Software Engineer, Testing

About Technology at Bridgewater

The Technology team at Bridgewater engineers’ systems to understand the world. These systems synthesize and industrialize our global understanding into a hive mind of macroeconomic knowledge which enables us to educate and collaborate with the world’s most influential central banks and policy makers and carefully and strategically manage the world’s most important capital. Our technologists are engineering highly available, high performing and highly secure cloud platforms and infrastructure which support and scale our investing operations.

About the Team

The goal of the Portfolio and Trading teams are to translate our understanding of how the global economy works into strategy specific portfolios and execute those investment decisions with maximum precision, efficiency, and reliability.

Working alongside the Portfolio team is a uniquely talented technology group that builds and manages the platforms that allow our portfolio strategists, investors, and operations teams to create and test new portfolio strategies and logic, construct portfolios, and manifest our desired portfolios to securities we can trade in the markets.

Working alongside our Trading team are technologists who design, build, and maintain the systems that power execution, data flow, and real‑time decision‑making across global markets. They work closely with investors and traders to optimize performance, automate processes, and ensure the firm’s strategies are implemented with speed, accuracy, and resilience.

About the Role

We are hiring for this role into both the Portfolio and Trading teams. The Sr. SWE, Testing will design and build advanced test automation platforms that support high-performance, mission‑critical systems. This role will be instrumental in reducing reliance on external vendors and enabling faster, more reliable development cycles through scalable automation and AI‑driven testing approaches.

This position sits at the intersection of software engineering, testing strategy, and platform architecture, with a strong emphasis on enabling agentic development loops and minimizing latency and downtime in production systems.

Ultimately, if successful in this role, you will reduce testing cycle times and faster release velocity, increased system reliability with fewer production incidents, adopt scalable automation platforms across teams, and effectively validate of both performance and business logic.

You Will Drive the Following Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable test automation platforms for complex systems
• Develop diagnostic and validation tools across both production and QA environments
• Enable end-to-end automated testing for business logic and system performance
• Support agentic/AI‑driven testing workflows to accelerate development cycles
• Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate testing into the SDLC
• Improve system reliability by reducing testing time and preventing production issues
• Contribute to the evolution of testing strategy during platform re‑architecture (e.g., OMS SaaS migration)

Required Qualifications

• Strong computer science fundamentals with 4+ total years of experience in technically rigorous environments holding extremely high bars for their engineers
• 2+ years of experience in SDET or test architecture roles with an emphasis on true software engineering
• Ability to design diagnostic tools and testing infrastructure
• Strong problem‑solving and system design skills
• Exposure to agentic systems or autonomous testing frameworks
• Familiarity with low‑latency systems and performance optimization

Nice to Have Qualifications

• Proven experience building complex test automation platforms from scratch
• Background with OMS (Order Management Systems) or similar platforms
• Strong understanding of software testing methodologies and frameworks
• Experience with distributed systems, data platforms, or financial systems
• Experience integrating AI/ML tools into testing workflows
• Experience in financial services, especially trading or portfolio systems

Location Requirements

The anticipated onsite requirement for this role is two days per week (Tuesday and Wednesday) at our Westport, CT campus.

Compensation Band

The compensation range for this role is $350K - $500K inclusive of base salary, discretionary bonus, and potential long‑term incentive. The expected base salary for this role is between 50-75% of the range.

Bridgewater Employee Benefits

One of our core priorities at Bridgewater is to enable our employees to build a great life and career, and we believe our benefits are an important extension of that philosophy. As such, currently Bridgewater offers a competitive suite of benefits including:

• Health insurance with 100% premium covered and access to additional concierge medical services
• 401(k) plan with generous employer match
• Paid time off, including fully paid parental leave and a competitive PTO package
• Workplace flexibility and access to back up childcare
• Financial assistance for family building support, including adoption and egg freezing
• Workplace wellness, including on‑site gyms, free meals and healthy snacks, and meditation rooms
• An engaged and active community that includes many company events, affinity networks, and extracurricular interest groups

Bridgewater reserves the right to change its current benefits program at any time, in a manner that is consistent with applicable federal and state regulations

About Bridgewater

Bridgewater Associates is a premier asset management firm, focused on delivering unique insight and partnership for the most sophisticated global institutional investors. Our investment process is driven by a tireless pursuit to understand how the world’s markets and economies work — using cutting edge technology to validate and execute on timeless and universal investment principles.

Founded in 1975, we are a community of independent thinkers who share a commitment for excellence. By fostering a culture of openness, transparency, and inclusion, we strive to unlock the most complex questions in investment strategy, management, and corporate culture.

Our Culture

Our culture is anchored in excellence, meaning constant improvement, and it is deeply tied to our mission. Because markets are objective, competitive, and getting smarter everyday, we need to keep rapidly improving to have any chance of beating them. Truth is our most essential tool for engaging with the markets and constantly improving because once you know what's true about your problems and opportunities, you can determine how to get better. Valuing truth means being transparent about your decision‑making and mistakes, giving and receiving feedback with humility, and fighting for the best answers over hierarchy, ego, or self‑interest. Operating this way is hard – it's only possible because we build meaning in our work and relationships. This meaning comes from the audacity of the mission, and the joy of working alongside people who make you a better version of yourself. The culture, like Bridgewater itself, is always evolving. In 1997 our founder Ray Dalio wrote down his lessons, starting with a Philosophy Statement which remains our foundation. This later evolved into a set of 300+ Principles. In 2022, when Ray transitioned the company, we re‑underwrote several of those principles and evolved others, with a specific focus on Meritocracy. Today the culture sits, alongside our people, as our most important edge. When we get it right, it’s the engine that powers everything else.

Bridgewater Associates, LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer