Why work for us?
A career at Janus Henderson is more than a job, it’s about investing in a brighter future together.
Our Mission at Janus Henderson is to help clients define and achieve superior financial outcomes through differentiated insights, disciplined investments, and world-class service. We will do this by protecting and growing our core business, amplifying our strengths and diversifying where we have the right.
Our Values are key to driving our success, and are at the heart of everything we do:
Clients Come First - Always | Execution Supersedes Intention | Together We Win | Diversity Improves Results | Truth Builds Trust
If our mission, values, and purpose align with your own, we would love to hear from you!
Your opportunity
As an Associate Software Engineer within the Investments and Operations Development team you will join a 40-strong development team responsible for delivering ongoing change to the suite of applications and systems comprising Janus Henderson’s investment capabilities such as trading, research, performance, and risk.
This is a hands-on technical role where you will provide development expertise as part of an agile, product team. You will be expected to contribute to technical design, take ownership of requirements, implement, test, and ensure stable deployment to production, and troubleshoot production issues.
It is important in this role that you can communicate and collaborate effectively across all areas of technology and business partners globally.
You will:
- Work closely with the Product Owners to understand development priorities and backlog items.
- Work closely with Architects, Engineers, and Tech Leads, ensuring that all solutions fit well within the strategic architectural vision.
- Performs hands-on development, adhering to the SDLC framework and practices at Janus Henderson
What to expect when you join our firm
- Hybrid working and reasonable accommodations
- Generous Holiday policies
- Excellent Health and Wellbeing benefits including corporate membership to ClassPass
- Paid volunteer time to step away from your desk and into the community
- Support to grow through professional development courses, tuition/qualification reimbursement and more
- All-inclusive approach to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
- Maternal/paternal leave benefits and family services
- Complimentary subscription to Headspace – the mindfulness app
- All employee events including networking opportunities and social activities
- Lunch allowance for use within our subsidized onsite canteen
Must have skills
- Good knowledge of C# and Angular
- Sound understanding of OOP and SOLID principles.
- Experience of Azure or other cloud providers
- Experience of micro-service development and API development
- Knowledge of Databricks and Python development experience beneficial
- Good understanding of Agile delivery methodologies
- Experience of working with geographically disperse development teams.
- Degree educated in mathematics or scientific/engineering discipline.
Nice to have skills
- Craftsman-like approach to building software; takes pride in engineering excellence and instils these values in others.
- Demonstrable passion for technology e.g., personal projects, open-source involvement
- Intellectually robust with a keenly analytic approach to problem solving.
- Self-organized with the ability to effectively manage time across multiple projects and with competing business demands and priorities.
- Focused on delivering value to the business with relentless efforts to improve process.
- Strong interpersonal skills; able to establish and maintain a close working relationship with team members and senior business stakeholders alike
- Confident communicator; able to argue a point concisely and deal positively with conflicting views.
- Ability to communicate information technology concepts to non-technology personnel.
Potential for growth
- Mentoring
- Leadership development programs
- Regular training
- Career development services
- Continuing education courses
You will be expected to understand the regulatory obligations of the firm, and abide by the regulated entity requirements and JHI policies applicable for your role.