Software Engineer - Mission Control

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  Our client, a leading global financial services firm, is seeking two Software Engineers to join their team in New York. This role will help build and operate Mission Control - the firm's platform for governing their change book of work. Sitting at the intersection of platform engineering and business delivery, you will develop and maintain the capabilities that allow teams across the firm to track, govern, and report on change projects in a consistent, scalable, and AI-enabled way.
  Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain Mission Control features and integrations, including approval workflows, project intake, and status reporting capabilities.
• Develop and maintain data models and integrations that connect Mission Control to the broader Digital Book of Work platform and Engineering tooling (including the Jira/Atlassian layer).
• Contribute to the AI-enabled roadmap for Mission Control - including automated status extraction, AI-powered project insights, and KPI reporting.
• Work closely with Transformation Management and Engineering PMO to understand requirements and translate them into well-designed, maintainable platform features.
• Participate actively in in-person team meetings and present technical approaches to senior stakeholders across Transformation and Engineering.
• Support the decommission of legacy systems and data migration as the platform matures.
• Contribute to code reviews, architecture discussions, and the ongoing improvement of engineering standards within the team.

  Required Qualifications:

• Software design principles and architectures - MVC, DRY, separation of concerns, data modeling, and API design.
• Backend development in one or more languages such as Python, Java, or TypeScript.
• Familiar with component-driven development, ideally in React.
• Relational and non-relational databases - data modeling, querying, and performance.
• RESTful API development and integration with third-party platforms.
• Version control and collaborative development practices using Git.

Preferred Qualifications:

• The Atlassian platform - Jira, Confluence, and the Atlassian API ecosystem.
• AI and automation tooling - experience building AI agents or integrating LLMs into workflows is a strong plus.
• The asset management industry and business models, including spread-related earnings, fee-related earnings, and fund structures.
• Financial measures and principles such as ROI, NPV, and IRR.
• A finance or financial services background.
• Prior experience designing microservice based architectures.

What Success Looks Like:

• You will combine solid technical skills with an ownership mindset and the ability to work closely with both engineering and business stakeholders in a fast-paced, high-expectation environment.
• Translating complex governance and business requirements into clean, well-designed software.
• Taking ownership of platform features end-to-end - from design through delivery.
• Building software that senior leaders and project teams depend on daily.
• Working in person with a collaborative, cross-functional team.
• Making a visible difference to how a leading global investment firm governs and delivers its most important change initiatives.
• This role is less suited to someone who prefers purely independent technical work with limited stakeholder interaction or business context.

Pay Rate: $80 - $100/hr

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