Principal Software Engineer - Data Platform

$200,000 - $250,000/Yr

Arcesium - New York, NY

Full-time - Senior

Hybrid - New York, NY

About the position

Arcesium is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for its Data Platform team. This role involves architecting and implementing advanced data solutions for sophisticated financial institutions, focusing on distributed systems and modern data lake technologies. The engineer will lead high-visibility projects, mentor other engineers, and drive the development of innovative data products.

Responsibilities

• Build next generation technology used by some of the most sophisticated financial institutions in the world
• Design exciting new products for our offering with best of breed distributed systems technologies
• Drive solutions around data modeling, data pipelining & orchestration, data transport, and access control
• Propose and review solution design across engineering teams as they onboard onto the data platform
• Lead high-visibility engineering efforts on some of our data intensive core components
• Take a hands-on technical leadership role in guiding a group of equally talented engineers to own and deliver high quality solutions under tight market-driven deadlines

Requirements

• Strong academic background in computer science
• 5+ years of relevant experience as a software engineer at a top startup or technology firm
• Expertise in at least one of the following: Kafka, ZeroMQ, AWS SNS/SQS, or equivalent streaming technology
• Experience with Spark, Flink, Beam, or equivalent streaming data processing frameworks
• Hands-on experience in building near real-time data ETL, ELT and normalization
• Fluency with Java, Kotlin, Scala, or any other JVM language
• Familiarity with relational databases like Postgres, MSSQL, or Sqlite
• Track record and appetite for building and launching new data products from scratch
• Experience guiding and mentoring highly skilled engineers and driving large scale engineering projects across the firm

Benefits

• Medical and prescription drug coverage
• 401k contribution matching
• Year-end bonus guaranteed in the first year of hire