Software Engineering Manager – Investments

Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated

. Lead, coach, and develop software engineers across the full employee lifecycle .

Posted 10/2/2026full-timeRemote • Missouri • United StatesSeniorLead💰 $107,060 - $159,390 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in leading software engineering teams, delivering business-critical technology products, and implementing modern software engineering practices. Proficient in managing vendor relationships and ensuring compliance with financial control environments while fostering a culture of continuous learning and inclusive leadership.

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Software Engineering LeadershipAgile MethodologiesAWS Cloud TechnologiesInvestment Accounting KnowledgeCI/CD and Automated Testing

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Hard Skills

Software EngineeringApplication DevelopmentPlatform EngineeringData EngineeringEvent-Driven ArchitectureSecure Software DevelopmentInfrastructure as CodeAPIsAutomated TestingObservability

Soft Skills

Advanced CommunicationStakeholder ManagementNegotiationFacilitationInclusive Leadership

Tools & Technologies

AWSCloud-Native TechnologiesContainerizationCI/CD ToolsVersion Control Systems

Industry Keywords

Investment ManagementAsset ManagementCapital MarketsFinancial ReportingSOX ITGCSOC ReportingIBORABORData LineageChange Management

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead, coach, and develop software engineers across the full employee lifecycle
Own predictable delivery and operational outcomes for products and services
Build trusted relationships with Investments, Investment Operations, and Investment Accounting leaders
Understand processes and control points across portfolio management, trading, settlement, positions, valuations, performance, risk, cash, securities accounting, reconciliation, and financial reporting
Partner with Product Management and Product Owners on roadmaps, outcomes, dependencies, capacity, and engineering work
Partner with architecture teams to implement target-state architecture and approved patterns
Establish standards for secure coding, peer review, automated testing, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability, documentation, release management, and maintainability
Guide delivery of modern web applications, services, data pipelines, and integrations using cloud-native, serverless, containerized, API-first, event-driven, streaming, batch, and file-based patterns
Oversee engineering involving investment platforms and external providers
Manage vendor performance, upgrades, integration strategies, and build-versus-buy-versus-configure decisions
Ensure production services meet availability, recoverability, performance, monitoring, incident response, problem management, and disaster-recovery expectations
Embed security, privacy, segregation of duties, data lineage, traceability, logging, evidence retention, and control requirements into delivery
Manage team budget, vendor spend, staffing mix, hiring, capacity, and forecasts
Evaluate and responsibly introduce emerging technologies, including generative AI and agentic engineering tools
Communicate delivery progress, operational health, risks, dependencies, investment needs, and decisions to technical, business, and executive audiences
Perform other duties as assigned

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience (required)
9+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, application development, platform engineering, data engineering, or related technology disciplines (required)
3+ years of formal people-management experience leading software engineering teams (required)
Accountability for delivering and operating business-critical technology products or platforms in a complex enterprise environment
Experience supporting investments, asset management, investment accounting, capital markets, treasury, finance, or related business capabilities
Experience operating in an agile, product-oriented technology organization
Strong knowledge of modern software engineering practices, APIs, event-driven architecture, automated testing, secure software development, source control, CI/CD, observability, and infrastructure as code
Working fluency across modern application, data, and cloud technologies
Hands-on understanding of AWS or a comparable public-cloud ecosystem
Practical knowledge of investment data and processes
Understanding of front-, middle-, and back-office operating models and IBOR/ABOR concepts
Knowledge of one or more asset classes
Ability to lead engineering teams integrating with investment platforms, accounting systems, market-data providers, custodians, and internal data platforms
Understanding of financial and insurance control environments, auditability, data lineage, access controls, change management, segregation of duties, model governance, SOX ITGC, and SOC reporting
Advanced leadership, communication, facilitation, negotiation, and stakeholder-management skills
Ability to manage multiple priorities and dependencies and make timely decisions with incomplete information
Commitment to continuous learning, inclusive leadership, constructive feedback, and empowered engineering teams

Benefits

Comp & perks

Annual bonus plan
Long-term equity incentive plan eligibility for some positions
Health benefits
Retirement benefits
Other employee benefits
Career development potential
Diverse, caring colleagues and respectful, welcoming work environment