Software Engineer at Bridgewater Associates LP

About Bridgewater

Bridgewater Associates is a premier asset management firm, focused on delivering unique insight and partnership for the most sophisticated global institutional investors.

Our investment process is driven by a tireless pursuit to understand how the world’s markets and economies work — using cutting edge technology to validate and execute on timeless and universal investment principles.

Founded in 1975, we are a community of independent thinkers who share a commitment for excellence. By fostering a culture of openness, transparency, and inclusion, we strive to unlock the most complex questions in investment strategy, management, and corporate culture.

Explore more information about Bridgewater on our website here.

About the Technology Department

The Technology team at Bridgewater engineers systems to understand the world. These systems synthesize and industrialize our global understanding into a hive mind of macroeconomic knowledge which enables us to educate and collaborate with the world’s most influential central banks and policy makers and carefully and strategically manage the world’s most important capital. Our technologists are engineering highly available, high performing and highly secure cloud platforms and infrastructure which support and scale our investing operations.

You Will Own the Following Responsibilities

• Engineer extremely sophisticated tools and collaborating with some of Bridgewater’s most sophisticated investors within our Investment Engine department.
• Building the next generation platforms focused on systemizing Bridgewater’s investment process from researching markets, to optimizing portfolios, to executing trades.
• Building infrastructure (in a hybrid cloud environment) that operated some of the world’s most sophisticated investment tools

Minimum Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field graduating in Undergraduate in Spring 2025
• Strong computer science fundamentals with a focus on backend, platform-level development
• Software engineering experience either through a former internship in a rigorous environment (highly preferred) or through coding competitions, clubs, etc.
• A strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and problem-solving is crucial.
• Experience coding in an industry-standard language (e.g. Java, Python, C++, JavaScript, etc.)

Location Requirements

Bridgewater offers remote work flexibility with the anticipated onsite requirement for this role to be up to four days per week.

Compensation

The expected annual total compensation for this position is $225,000 plus a generous signing bonus. The total compensation package includes variable compensation in the form of a discretionary target bonus.  The expected base salary for this role is approximately 70-80% of this wage range.

Bridgewater Employee Benefits

For most of our roles, Bridgewater offers remote work flexibility, with most employees required to work on campus as their principal work location, a minimum of two days per week with the option to work offsite on the other days. We are potentially able to offer personalized flexibility based on individual circumstances in this role.

One of our core priorities at Bridgewater is to enable our employees to build a great life and career, and we believe our benefits are an important extension of that philosophy. As such, currently Bridgewater offers a competitive suite of benefits including:

• Health insurance with 100% premium covered and access to additional concierge medical services
• 401(k) plan with generous employer match
• Paid time off, including fully paid parental leave and a competitive PTO package
• Workplace flexibility and access to back up childcare
• Financial assistance for family building support, including adoption and egg freezing
• Workplace wellness, including on-site gyms, free meals and healthy snacks, and meditation rooms
• An engaged and active community that includes many company events, affinity networks, and extracurricular interest groups

Our Culture

Bridgewater’s unique success is the direct result of our unique way of being. We want an idea meritocracy in which meaningful work and meaningful relationships are pursued through radical truth and radical transparency. We require people to be extremely open, air disagreements, test each other’s logic, and view discovering mistakes and weaknesses as a good thing that leads to improvement and innovation. It is by continually striving together for the highest levels of truth and excellence that we create meaningful work and meaningful relationships. Within this culture, Diversity and Inclusion is a top priority because it is essential to finding the best talent in the world, enabling our idea meritocracy, and creating an environment where all types of people can thrive. We have a full-time team as well as affinity networks that work on these issues - If you would like to learn more, please let your Bridgewater recruiter know.

Explore more information about Bridgewater’s culture on our website here.

Bridgewater reserves the right to change its current benefits program at any time, in a manner that is consistent with applicable federal and state regulations.

This job description is not a contract and confers no contractual rights, privileges, or benefits on any applicant or potential applicant. Bridgewater has the right to change any and all terms of this job description, including, but not limited to, job responsibilities, qualifications and benefits. Nothing in this job description constitutes an offer or guarantee of employment. Please note that we do provide immigration sponsorship for this position.

Bridgewater Associates, LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer