Principal Engineer - Infrastructure Development

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.

We are looking for a bright and exceptional Infrastructure Principal Engineer to join our technology team. The role involves building complex next generation product used by our teams and architecting solutions to support new technical and business initiatives.

The Infrastructure team is responsible for multiple functional areas which include Access & Identity Management, Linux Compute, Discovery, Networking, Observability, SDLC, & Storage, built on top of AWS, which provide the foundation upon which our customer-facing financial technology platform builds and runs. Infrastructure is a high-impact engineering team that builds new services, automates systems, integrates cloud & open-source software, and operates critical systems depending on the needs of the firm.

What You'll Do

• Demonstrate strong technical breadth / depth, driving innovation, evaluating new technologies, and deciphering the technical vision for engineering teams.
• Own key contributions to technical design and architecture decisions, considering trade-offs of choices, managing risk, making decisions independently where appropriate, and presenting reasoned options for decision making by others.
• Lead the way by writing exemplary code, documentation, and RFCs.
• Identify, propose, develop, deploy, and own R&D projects in accordance with the technical vision and needs of the team, turning problem statements into solutions, and operating independently as needed.
• Design systems and solutions that take into account and / or improve key metrics (e.g. quality, cost, availability, scalability, reliability).
• Mentor and coach engineers in their subdepartment and influence the broader Technology organization.

What You'll Need

Arcesium and its affiliates do not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other category protected by law. Note that for us, this is more than just a legal boilerplate. We are genuinely committed to these principles, which form an important part of our corporate culture, and are eager to hear from extraordinarily well qualified individuals having a wide range of backgrounds and personal characteristics.