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Westport, Connecticut, United States
Hybrid
About Technology at Bridgewater
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.
About the Team
The goal of the Portfolio and Trading teams are to translate our understanding of how the global economy works into strategy specific portfolios and execute those investment decisions with maximum precision, efficiency, and reliability.
Working alongside the Portfolio team is a uniquely talented technology group that builds and manages the platforms that allow our portfolio strategists, investors, and operations teams to create and test new portfolio strategies and logic, construct portfolios, and manifest our desired portfolios to securities we can trade in the markets.
Working alongside our Trading team are technologists who design, build, and maintain the systems that power execution, data flow, and real-time decision-making across global markets. They work closely with investors and traders to optimize performance, automate processes, and ensure the firm’s strategies are implemented with speed, accuracy, and resilience.
About the Role
We are hiring for this role into both the Portfolio and Trading teams. The Sr. SWE, Testing will design and build advanced test automation platforms that support high-performance, mission-critical systems. This role will be instrumental in reducing reliance on external vendors and enabling faster, more reliable development cycles through scalable automation and AI-driven testing approaches.
This position sits at the intersection of software engineering, testing strategy, and platform architecture, with a strong emphasis on enabling agentic development loops and minimizing latency and downtime in production systems.
Ultimately, if successful in this role, you will reduce testing cycle times and faster release velocity, increased system reliability with fewer production incidents, adopt scalable automation platforms across teams, and effectively validate of both performance and business logic.
You Will Drive the Following Responsibilities
Required Qualifications
Nice to Have Qualifications
Location Requirements
The anticipated onsite requirement for this role is two days per week (Tuesday and Wednesday) at our Westport, CT campus.
Compensation Band
The compensation range for this role is $350K - $500K inclusive of base salary, discretionary bonus, and potential long-term incentive. The expected base salary for this role is between 50-75% of the range.
Bridgewater Employee Benefits
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:
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
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.
Our Culture
Our culture is anchored in excellence, meaning constant improvement, and it is deeply tied to our mission. Because markets are objective, competitive, and getting smarter everyday, we need to keep rapidly improving to have any chance of beating them. Truth is our most essential tool for engaging with the markets and constantly improving because once you know what's true about your problems and opportunities, you can determine how to get better. Valuing truth means being transparent about your decision-making and mistakes, giving and receiving feedback with humility, and fighting for the best answers over hierarchy, ego, or self-interest. Operating this way is hard – it's only possible because we build meaning in our work and relationships. This meaning comes from the audacity of the mission, and the joy of working alongside people who make you a better version of yourself. The culture, like Bridgewater itself, is always evolving. In 1997 our founder Ray Dalio wrote down his lessons, starting with a Philosophy Statement which remains our foundation. This later evolved into a set of 300+ Principles. In 2022, when Ray transitioned the company, we re-underwrote several of those principles and evolved others, with a specific focus on Meritocracy. Today the culture sits, alongside our people, as our most important edge. When we get it right, it’s the engine that powers everything else.
Bridgewater Associates, LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer