Ellington has a 30-year track record of delivering attractive returns to investors, capturing upside in good markets and controlling downside in difficult ones through disciplined use of data and modeling, alongside deep trading expertise. Our core competencies are in diversified credit, mortgage, and fixed income markets—but we are also constantly evolving, adding new capabilities that complement our existing strategies. The Ellington culture embraces complex investment opportunities and risk management challenges that require analytical depth and versatile collaboration.

From the beginning, our research and technology teams have been central to the firm’s alpha generation and our ability to scale our AUM. Many members of the firm’s senior leadership started in research, and we continue to invest heavily in both people and infrastructure for this core function. Working in research, you will make a meaningful difference to the firm’s ongoing expansion and the direction it takes for the future.

At Ellington, we care deeply about working with our team members to set them up for a successful long-term career with the firm. Our open, collegial environment not only fosters close relationships across portfolio management, risk, research, and technology roles—it also entails a flexible approach to professional growth and promotes exciting, non-linear career paths spanning those areas.

With $18bn in AUM and offices in New York, Connecticut, and London, what makes us most proud is the exceptional quality of our 170 employees.

This Role

The Senior Engineer role entails responsibilities within our engineering department spanning a number of domains—from data engineering to workflow development—with a focus on application development and enhancement. As an integral member of the team, you will collaborate closely with other engineers, portfolio managers, department heads, and senior management to identify requirements and build robust internal tools.

Specific responsibilities are expected to include:

Working directly with stakeholders and business users we support – building relationships to support critical processes and systems, and being able to troubleshoot issues and present solutions in a timely manner

Delivering projects as an individual contributor capable of working front-to-back across both web and desktop applications

Improving the architecture of existing systems by employing engineering best practices

Improving maintainability of existing systems and processes proactively

Using modern, proven architectural designs to help enhance existing and build new APIs, frameworks, and CI/CD pipelines and testing suites

Performing engineering design and code reviews for both engineering staff and others

Performing data analysis and reconciliations to validate system functionality

Providing production support for various time-sensitive systems such as signal dashboards, portfolio management systems, external trade feeds, risk systems, operational/accounting systems and many others

Evaluation of new technologies and third-party solutions

The role requires solid understanding of engineering principles, very strong programming capabilities, the ability to troubleshoot time-sensitive issues, collaborative spirit, project and team leadership, and an analytical orientation.

Finding the Right Fit

While there is a wide array of unique backgrounds that may be a good fit, experience with mortgage-backed securities, whole loans, structured products, portfolio management systems and accounting would be helpful in the role. Exposure to corporate credit products such as collateralized loan obligations, corporate bonds or bank loans would be useful, but is by no means required.

Beyond the skills and experiences you may have had in your academic and/or professional career to date, the following areas of expertise are fundamental to finding this position with our team a good fit:

Strong data analytics and problem-solving skills

Deep expertise with scalable systems and database architecture

Experience working collaboratively with business users to develop design specifications

Experience collaborating with researchers/data scientists to industrialize their processes

A strong sense of ownership and responsibility for one’s work

Strong command of SQL programming, database engineering principles and query optimization

Expertise in C#, JavaScript, & TypeScript (and related frameworks such as Angular and React)

Experience in building and supporting desktop dotnet applications (helpful, but not required)

Working knowledge of Python (helpful but not required)

Comfort developing front-ends, UI mock-ups, and process flow diagrams

Passionate about technology and using it to solve real world problems for business users

You will possess a Bachelor’s or Master’s, in Computer Science or related engineering discipline such as Electrical Engineering, coupled with a minimum of five years’ relevant work experience. If, by chance, you have related work experience as part of a trading desk at an investment management firm, you are likely an excellent fit.