Software Engineer

The Role:

About Lord Abbett:

Founded in 1929, Lord Abbett is an independent firm with a singular focus on the management of money. Over the course of our history, we've earned a sterling reputation for our leadership, influence, and innovation in the asset management industry. Today, our independent perspective, our commitment to active management, and our intelligent product design continue to make us relevant to individual and institutional investors.

From the very beginning, we've recognized that our people are our greatest asset. As an investment-led, investor-focused firm, we value intellectual curiosity, teamwork, and collaboration across the organization.

We're looking for people with a keen interest in working for a trusted leader in the asset management industry, a desire to expand their knowledge, and a passion for delivering a client experience that exceeds expectations.

Now that you know our history, are you ready to be part of our future?

Job Overview:

Lord Abbett is looking for a talented and experienced UI / Front End developer to join our development team to support the continued development of our digital relationship platforms. You will be responsible for developing and implementing highly responsive user interface components using React concepts.

The Digital Marketing team is currently making a significant investment in building out our digital relationship platforms. The candidate will be given significant opportunities to make contributions at the ground-level. The candidate will have an opportunity to work alongside an established team of developers, UX designers, business owners (including Marketing and Sales Teams) to develop and evolve our digital relationship platform, which includes our public web site, marketing analytics and lead generation capabilities. The candidate will work closely with other technology teams and get an opportunity to broaden their knowledge of modern, best in class technology platforms like Adobe Marketing Cloud, AWS and Sales Force Marketing Cloud.

We'll trust you to::

• Articulate a long-term technical direction and vision for maintaining and scaling our web platforms.
• Create trustworthy user experiences by building interfaces that are simple, easy to comprehend, performant and reliable using modern tools like React, React Router, Redux, Material-UI, Jest andWebpack.
• Turn our vision into a tangible roadmap by working with engineers, product managers and senior leadership.
• Add positive energy in every meeting, and make your coworkers feel included in every interaction.

You'll need to have::

• Bachelors and/or Master's in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Math, or related work experience
• Willingness and ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• 3 years of experience in software engineering
• At least 2 years of experience in developing web platforms and shipping user-facing features with JavaScript and modern, component-based JS frameworks like React.
• Familiar with current trends and best practices in front-end architecture, including performance, security and usability
• Familiar with product and design lifecycles, and collaborating closely with designers, engineers, and product managers
• Understand business requirements working closely with UX/business analyst teams, plan and translate mockups and wireframes to optimized, reusable, and quality code
• Experience building REST APIs
• Expertise with Object Oriented JavaScript(ES6 & ES7)
• Experience with microservicesand respective architecture design principles and scalability best practices
• Proficient user of Git, Maven, Jenkins, and CI/CD
• Strong knowledge of code optimization techniques for maximum performance and cross browser compatibility
• Experience in unit testing code with JEST/ enzyme / Jasmine / Mocha / Chai
• Experience in creating API design/technical documentation (swagger)
• Experience in database technologies like SQL Server, and/or PostgreSQL a plus
• Knowledge in GraphQL desirable
• Strong analytical skills
• Candidate must be willing to take full ownership of projects, covering discovery, analysis, technical design and implementation, testing, and deployment tasks
• Must demonstrate good communication skills
• A strong desire to document and share work done to aid in long term support
• Candidate must be a self-starter, a dependable partner, and team player

Why Lord Abbett?:

Lord Abbett is a leading global independent, privately held investment management company. We are active managers and invest where we believe we have a repeatable edge and can deliver alpha for our clients. Our vision is to be the most respected asset manager in the world, admired for our people, our performance, our relationships, and our organizational agility. This inspires the three pillars of our culture.

• Principles-Based - We empower our leaders to create an environment of trust.
• Performance-Oriented - We inspire our people to embody our values, excellence, responsibility, transparency & collaboration.
• Purpose-Driven - We instill a passion for always putting our clients' interests first.

We have been ranked #1 in Barton's Best Fund Families for 2024 and have earned recognition as one of the Best Places to Work in Money Management by Pensions & Investments for five consecutive years.

Compensation Information: Annual base salary for this role is $150,000-$175,000. Salary is estimated for this role. Actual pay may be different.

Discretionary Bonus: Role may be eligible to receive an annual discretionary bonus. Discretionary bonuses are determined by several factors including, but not limited to, firm, team, and individual performance.

Benefits: Lord Abbett is committed to offering a competitive total rewards package to all eligible employees. Offerings include competitive total compensation, retirement plans, competitive health and well-being plans. To learn more about what we offer, please visit Careers | Lord Abbett

Lord Abbett is an equal employment opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals without regard to the following legally protected characteristics: race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, sexual identity, caregiver status, military/veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal law. All employment decisions at Lord Abbett are based solely on the applicant's relevant experience, skills and qualifications.

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Without prior written agreement, Lord Abbett does not accept unsolicited submissions from employment agencies, search firms, placement services, or any similar provider ("Search Firms") for employment opportunities. All candidates submitted by Search Firms to any employee or partner at our company without a written Search Firm agreement in place will be deemed the sole property of our company. In such circumstances, no fee, commission, or other compensation will be paid to such Search Firm in the event a candidate is hired by our company. To the extent a Search Firm has a written agreement in place, all introductions are position specific and should be directed to HR or the hiring manager, so we kindly request no unsolicited phone calls or emails.