PIMCO Looking for Software Developer – SMA & Muni Trading at San Diego, CA Full Time

We are a leading global asset management firm with over 3,000 employees across 20 offices in 15 countries; we help millions of investors around the world pursue their financial goals.

We hire critical thinkers. People who thrive in a collaborative culture like ours where we solve real problems while building the future of finance.

You

• Are excited to be part of a vibrant engineering community that values diversity, hard work, and continuous learning.
• Love solving complex real-world business problems.
• Recognize that cross-functional collaboration is a core component of success for the team.
• Believe there are multiple ways to solve most technical problems and are willing to debate the trade-offs.
• Have become a stronger engineer by making mistakes and learning from them.
• Are a doer, someone who wants to grow their career and gain experience across technologies and business functions.

We

• Continuously invest in a high-performance and inclusive culture, in which a diversity of backgrounds, experiences and viewpoints are celebrated and valued.
• Encourage career mobility, so you can benefit from learning different functions and technologies, and we gain the benefits of your experience across teams.
• Run technology pro bono programs that help the non-profit community and give our engineering community opportunities to volunteer and participate.
• Offer education reimbursements and ongoing training in technology, communication, and diversity & inclusion.
• Embrace knowledge sharing through lunch-and-learns, demos, and technical forums.
• Consider our people to be our greatest asset—we will help you learn what PIMCO Technology has to offer so you can participate in activities that benefit your career while delivering impactful technology solutions.

Job Opportunity: Software Developer for SMA & Muni Trading Tech

We are seeking a talented Software Developer to join our front-office technology team at one of the world’s largest asset management firms. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to the development and support of a state-of-the-art SMA/Muni order generation, management, execution, and workflow platform.

About the Team: Our team is responsible for building and maintaining an in-house, service-based platform that operates across both public and private cloud. While prior experience in trading systems or finance is not required, we are looking for exceptional technologists with a commercial mindset who are eager to thrive in a multi-billion USD business.

Our Vision: Over the next coming years, we aim to build on our solid foundation by designing and creating new services, architectures, and components. These innovations will mature into our future ecosystem, ultimately replacing and converging legacy platforms.

What We Offer: In exchange for your dedication, technical expertise, and collaborative spirit, we offer the opportunity to gain comprehensive knowledge of the SMA business, technology and deployment infrastructure at a highly successful firm. You will have the chance to grow and explore new dimensions in your career.

Our Technology Stack: Our core technologies include .NET Core, MS-SQL Server, Oracle, and Snowflake, with AngularJS and React UI’s. We continuously experiment with and adopt new technologies to support our goals.

Key Responsibilities

• Support live trading systems – coding through deployment. Build expertise, domain knowledge, and relationships with users and the broader tech team.
• Write code using .NET Core, SQL, and AngularJS/React.
• Participate in or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to select the best technologies.
• Review code developed by other developers, providing feedback to ensure adherence to best practices (e.g., style guidelines, code accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content, adapting it based on product/program updates and user feedback.
• Triage product or system issues, debug, track, and resolve them by analyzing their sources and impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.

Position Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
• 2-4 years of professional work experience.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and solid development capability.
• Willingness to learn, grow, and become a key member of the team.
• Strong team player, collaborating with ~15+ developers globally across California, Cyprus, Dallas, and beyond.
• Ability to perform code archaeology as we consolidate business functionality onto strategic platforms.
• Commitment to supporting users and releases with post-deploy validation.
• Commercial approach with an equity holder’s/owner’s ethos.
• Focus on non-functional requirements such as efficient and useful logging, supportability, automation, and trader workflow.

If you are a motivated full-stack engineer looking to make a significant impact in a dynamic and growing environment, we would love to hear from you. Join us and be part of a team that is shaping the future of asset management technology.

PIMCO follows a total compensation approach when rewarding employees which includes a base salary and a discretionary bonus. Base salary is the fixed component of compensation that is determined by core job responsibilities, relevant experience, internal level, and market factors. The discretionary bonus is used to award performance and therefore is determined by company, business, team, and individual performance.

Salary Range: $ 105,000.00 – $ 115,000.00

Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Statement

PIMCO recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, national origin, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender (including gender identity and expression), age, military or veteran status, disability (physical or mental), any factor prohibited by law, and as such affirms in policy and practice to support and promote the concept of equal employment opportunity and affirmative action, in accordance with all applicable federal, state, provincial and municipal laws. The company also prohibits discrimination on other basis such as medical condition, or marital status under applicable laws.

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