Software Engineer
Awarded in 2025 as “Best Place to Work in Money Management” by Pensions & Investments,
“Best Place to Work for Women” by Best Companies Group
and recognized by Best Companies Group and COLOR Magazine as an “Inclusive Workplace”
The Software Engineer maintains, builds, and manages new and existing software applications and systems through the entire development lifecycle to support all trading execution and related processes. This person contributes throughout the full lifecycle from requirements through production support while continuously improving system quality and scalability. Success in this role requires someone who is a skilled software developer, able to learn new skills and technologies as needed, and who is well-organized and focused on continual personal, system, and process improvement.
Principal Responsibilities:
Software Development and Implementation
- Implement software using a variety of technologies, languages, and tools (.NET, C#, Python, ASP.NET, SQL/SQL Server/Oracle, etc.) with a focus on software quality
- Design, implement, and perform unit, functional, integration, and system testing. Partner with end users by developing test plans and test cases and supporting user testing
- Participate in deployments of changes to test and production environments
- Work with external vendors and other counterparties to design, develop, integrate, and test systems
Business Analysis
- Work with internal stakeholders to build and document requirements and develop full system designs
- Assist with maintaining the product backlog to prioritize work within the team and with internal stakeholders
Process and System Improvement
- Identify opportunities for improvements to existing systems and processes.
- Produce and keep up-to-date system and process documentation for developers and stakeholders.
Technical Expertise
- Mentor peers through code reviews, pair programming, and knowledge sharing sessions.
- Take ownership of and act as subject matter expert on the trading execution and related systems to recommend and implement good design principles.
Production Support
- Provide as-needed support for trading technologies during normal business hours as well as occasional off-hours.
- Own ticket triage, root‑cause analysis, and post‑mortem documentation.
Decision making authority
- Prioritize work and feature deliveries to meet deadlines.
- Determine component architecture and database designs
- Guides management to determine future direction of overall system architectures
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field— or equivalent professional experience and training.
- 3+ years of professional experience developing in C#/.NET (or a comparable object‑oriented language).
- 3+ years of hands‑on experience with SQL Server, Oracle, or another relational database platform.
- Proven ability to apply sound software‑design and system‑architecture principles.
- Working knowledge of Python.
- Hands‑on experience with CI/CD pipelines, source‑control systems, and automated testing frameworks.
- Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication—capable of translating complex technical ideas to non‑technical audiences.
- Self‑motivated, organized, and equally comfortable working independently or within cross‑functional teams.
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiarity with Apache Airflow and authoring directed acyclic graph (DAG) code
- Knowledge of financial instruments (futures, forwards, equities, fixed‑income, options) and trading‑execution workflows.
- Hands‑on experience with software testing—unit, integration, or end‑to‑end.
- Prior experience managing projects.
- Understanding of financial technologies (FIX, Bloomberg API, etc.)
- Knowledge of Microsoft middleware and security technologies—WCF, MSMQ/Service Bus, Windows Services, AD, and related security patterns.
Why Campbell and Company?
At Campbell, our mission is to provide our investors with world-class investment performance. We accomplish this through a quantitative multi-strategy framework guided by a culture of continuous innovation. We trade over 100 derivative markets and 5000+ cash equities across the globe, based on over 100 systematic strategies with trades ranging from hours to months. We manage $6+ billion, with clients ranging from large public pensions to individual investors.
We enjoy working together to solve hard problems with real-world applications. Our collaborative culture allows us to obtain better results as a team without losing sight of the need to reward individual contributions. Two-thirds of staff are investment professionals, with 40% having been at Campbell for ten years or more. We believe the long tenure of our staff is a testament to our culture and the work-life balance we offer to all of our associates.
Our new, renovated offices are located at the Quarry Lake in Greenspring in upscale Baltimore County with walking access to premier shopping and dining options, high-end salons, fitness facilities, and medical offices. Many beautiful neighborhoods can be found within a few minutes’ drive from Campbell. For those who prefer downtown living, the Inner Harbor, Fells Point, and Federal Hill are less than 15 miles away.
We recognize that producing the best work and maintaining the best talent includes putting an overall premium on the overall wellness and financial well-being of our employees. We offer a hybrid work environment for all associates, very competitive pay and benefits, parental leave, 80% tuition reimbursement up to $50,000, an annual $2,000 vacation allowance (yes-we pay you to go on vacation!), employer-funded Health Savings Account, a $10,000 family forming HRA benefit, group health, employer paid dental and vision benefits, a $1000 fitness allowance, free onsite massages, and a 401(k) matching 100% up to 9% of your salary, plus an additional annual employer discretionary contribution, up to 7.25%.
Regular social gatherings, biweekly catered staff lunches, arcade and video games, ping pong tournaments, and diversity and inclusion events are just a few of our engagement activities to ensure working at Campbell isn’t just challenging and rewarding, but also fun!
We offer a competitive base salary range for this role of $85,000 to $130,000 per annum, contingent on experience and qualifications, with the minimum suitable for candidates under two years of experience and the maximum reserved for those possessing an advanced degree and relevant work experience. Position is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus.
Campbell & Company takes pride in our inclusive work environment where people of various backgrounds, perspectives, and skills collaborate and grow professionally. We welcome and encourage qualified candidates, including those under-represented in the investment industry, to explore the exciting opportunities at Campbell.