Principal Engineer

Company Overview

Arcesium is a global financial technology firm that solves complex data-driven challenges faced by some of the world’s most sophisticated financial institutions. We constantly innovate our platform and capabilities to meet tomorrow’s challenges, anticipate the risks our clients encounter, and design advanced solutions to help our clients achieve transformational business outcomes.

Financial technology is a high-growth industry as change and innovation continue to disrupt the status-quo and prompt major transformation. Arcesium is at a particularly interesting time in our own growth as we look to leverage our successfully established market position and expand operations in pursuit of strategic new business opportunities. We value intellectual curiosity, proactive ownership, and collaboration with colleagues, and we empower you to meaningfully contribute from day one and accelerate your professional development.

Team Summary

We are looking for a bright and exceptional Principal Engineer to join our Technology team. The candidate will be involved in building complex next-generation software and architecting solutions to support new technical and business initiatives.

What you'll do:

• Create and review architectural decisions for projects/products.
• Provide technology consultation and technical solutions for projects/products.
• Create and review high-level and low-level design of solutions.
• Ensure compliance of non-functional attributes (stability, security, availability, performance, etc.) of the product to internal standards
• Establish/Improve SDLC processes & ensure adherence to projects/products.
• Drive strategic initiatives aligning with the firm’s technology vision.
• Provide technical training and influence business/technical decisions.
• Own and execute projects independently from an architectural standpoint.

What you'll need:

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science (or, an equivalent course)
• 9+ years of relevant experience in Java, Python or similar object-oriented language(s)
• Technical hands-on with building large-scale solutions with any of the object-oriented language(s)
• Experience in end-to-end execution of enterprise-grade software
• Knowledge of design principles, fundamentals of architecture, quality processes and estimation techniques
• Understanding of relational and/or non-relations databases
• Experience with building high volume products that are highly available, scalable, and reliable on cloud platform.
• Experience in trouble shooting and resolving scalability challenges for existing apps.
• Experience with evaluation of open-source frameworks, libraries, and tools
• Ability to implement user interfaces using web-technologies and frameworks.
• The ideal candidate should have strong problem solving and analytical skills as well as a demonstrated passion for technology.
• Excellent reasoning ability and good interpersonal and communication skills are essential for this role as it involves interaction with business users.

Recruiting Security
Emails from genuine Arcesium recruiters who are employees of the company will always come from the @arcesium.com domain. In some cases, you may also be contacted by independent search firms engaged to recruit on our behalf; emails from their employees should always come from their firm's applicable domain. We'll never ask for your banking information or any payment as part of the recruiting process. If something seems off or you're contacted by an unexpected third party, please reach out to us at [email protected] (US/UK), [email protected] (India) or [email protected] (Portugal/Sweden).

Arcesium is an equal opportunity employer.