Software Engineer (Contractor)

Job Description: Dimensional Fund Advisors applies academic research to the practical world of investing. Our objective is to help clients structure globally diversified portfolios and to add value through engineering and trading. Dimensional manages assets exclusively for institutional investors and the clients of registered financial advisors. From offices in Santa Monica, Austin, London, Sydney, Tokyo and Singapore, our professional staff supervises portfolios twenty-four hours a day. This individual’s primary role will be to deliver new technology capabilities for the Equity Portfolio Management team within Investments. Responsibilities will include design, development, upgrading, documenting and testing on multiple application services. The successful candidate for this position will be tech savvy, analytical and detail oriented with the ability to multi-task and solve problems across multiple requests. Additionally, they must be highly skilled in working with business clients, external parties and other technology groups (developers, network administrators, senior management, etc.). You may be a fit for this role if you: Are open-minded, curious, and resourceful Are passionate about/stay current with modern technologies Solve problems systematically and transparently Share ideas, solicit/integrate feedback, design and solve collaboratively Take a software engineering approach and demonstrate automation and security mindsets What you might work on: Build or implement tec