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Company Profile

Founded in 1977, GMO is a global investment manager committed to delivering superior long-term investment performance and advice to our clients. We offer strategies and solutions where we believe we are positioned to add the greatest value for our investors. These include multi-asset class, equity, fixed income, and alternative offerings.

We manage approximately $65bn for a client base that includes many of the world’s most sophisticated institutions, financial intermediaries, and private clients. Industry-wide, we are well known for our focus on valuation-based investing, willingness to take bold positions when conditions warrant, and candid and academically rigorous thought leadership. Jeremy Grantham, GMO’s Co-Founder and Long-Term Investment Strategist, is renowned as an expert in identifying speculative investment bubbles and also as a leading climate investor and advocate.

GMO is privately owned and employs over 430 people worldwide. We are headquartered in Boston, with additional offices in Europe, Asia and Australia. Our company-wide culture emphasizes commitment to clients, intellectual curiosity, and open debate. We celebrate and respect our differences, while embracing and valuing what each of us brings to work, as we know that diverse teams in an inclusive, caring environment achieve higher engagement and better client results.

Please follow the prompts included in this job posting to apply. The application window for this role is anticipated to remain open until the job is filled, or as otherwise determined by GMO.

Position Overview

The IT Trading & Operations Systems Team is responsible for the development and support of applications across our Portfolio Management, Trading, Operations, Compliance, Enterprise Risk, Regulatory Reporting, HR, Finance, and Risk & Controls functions. This team consists of 10 technology professionals whose key functions include software development, business analysis, system integration, and application support of the production environment. The Software Engineer will be responsible for the technical design, implementation and maintenance of several software systems built primarily on but not limited to Microsoft .NET stack with SQL Server database storage. We have applications that also use Python, Angular, React and PowerShell. This position offers a talented software engineer the opportunity to work within an agile project team and build close relationships with both developers and key business stakeholders across the firm.

GMO is currently operating in a hybrid work model with the current expectation that the candidate will be in the office two days per week.

Primary Responsibilities

• Propose, design and implement technical solutions for our business partners
• Enhance existing technical components, applications and libraries
• Provide remediation for existing system issues
• Participate in peer reviews (both code and design reviews)
• Assist with eliciting requirements
• Produce effective technical documentation where needed

Requirements

Skills & Characteristics

120,000 - $160,000 a year

This salary range is estimated for this role and actual pay may be different based on a candidate’s qualifications and / or years of experience. In addition, this position is eligible for a discretionary annual bonus award, which award may be determined by individual, team, department and firm performance, and is subject to the terms of GMO’s compensation plan. This position is also benefits eligible. GMO’s comprehensive benefits program includes medical insurance, dental insurance, life insurance, long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) / profit-sharing retirement plan, open paid time off, leaves of absences, dependent care resources, tuition reimbursement, charitable gifts matching, flexible spending accounts, and commuter benefits.

GMO is committed to the recruitment, employment, and promotion of all candidates equally, regardless of an individual's gender, race, color, national origin, ancestry, age, religion, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, military or veteran status, genetic information, physical or mental disability (except where such disability is a bona fide occupational disqualification) or any other classification protected under federal, state or local law.