About Us
American Century Investments® is a leading global asset manager with over 65 years of experience helping a broad base of clients achieve their financial goals. Our expertise spans global equities and fixed income, multi-asset strategies, ETFs, and private investments.
Privately owned and independent, we focus solely on investment management. But there’s an unexpected side to us, too. We direct 40% of our dividends every year—over $2 billion since 2000—to the Stowers Institute for Medical Research. Our ongoing financial support drives the Institute’s breakthrough work and mission of defeating life-threatening diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s. So, the better we do for our clients, the more we can do for everyone.
All who work here around the globe are inspired every day by the unique difference our hard work can make in so many lives. It shows in the curiosity we bring to every initiative, the deep relationships we build with our clients, and the way we treat each other in the hallway. If you’re excited to learn more about us, we can’t wait to learn more about you.
Role Summary
Our IT teams support that mission by building applications and products that serve our customers. We’re looking for an Investment Management Software Engineer that is interested in software evolution and innovation within an Investment Technology team. The ideal candidate would be passionate about applying modern engineering principles for building and delivering software to market.
Primary responsibilities as a very "Hands-on" Developer for this position are to demonstrate technical proficiency and use of standard methodologies in our software development team. You will work closely with our Technical Leads, Product Owners, and Architects to identify and implement solutions. These solutions will be delivered to our clients through Agile development.
At ACI, our Software Engineers combine the best cloud native (AWS) tools to build ETL pipelines, data analysis applications, scalable microservices, and message driven applications. The goal is to deliver applications for risk management, investment analytics, investment operations, and alpha generating portfolio operations for equities, credit, and multi-asset (FOFs), and alternative investment strategies.
We operate a cloud first technology stack consisting of the following technologies:
Python (Pandas, NumPy)
AWS S3, Step Functions, Lambdas, Glue, Athena, Aurora/RDS (PostgreSQL), Redshift
Java Spring Batch and Spring Boot
SQL Server, IBM LUW DB2, Postgres
This role reports to the Director, Investments Performance Reporting, Digital and Analytics.
This hybrid position will be based out of our Kansas City, Missouri office.
This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without visa sponsorship, now or in the future.
How You Will Make an Impact
Engage with Product Owners/Managers to understand requirements
Create solutions for Investment Management Research and reporting
Automate manual processes for productivity improvement
Empower portfolio management and research teams so they can build data driven solutions
Building relationships with internal business partners and vendors
You, as part of a team, will provide on call support and occasional overtime may be required
What You Bring to the Team (Required)
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, finance or business or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
5+ years' experience in Application development and support experience in the following: Python, Pandas and NumPy. AWS S3, Step Functions, Lambdas, SNS, SQS, Glue (or Apache Spark)
Strong demonstrable experience in data modeling for relational (SQL) and NoSQL applications. The following is preferred: SQL Server, PostgreSQL, DB2
Strong understanding of architectural and software design patterns
Strong written and verbal communication skills and a passion for architectural and technical documentation
Broad knowledge of…