Principal Software Engineer, Compute Platform
Client Overview: This client is Boston's best Asset Management firm, who have nearly tripled their assets under management (AUM) over the past few years! This role is mission critical, as you'll be working directly on some of the firm's most important teams as well as critical platforms.
Role Overview: This role is at a principal level, where you'll be coding significantly in python, but also have the depth of knowledge to act as a technical lead. This team is comprised of a few hands on architects, and will be focusing on the firm's performant compute platform that allows the firm to identify invest-able trading strategies, thus being critical for the firm!
Respolsibilities:
- Work closely alongside the firm's Research group
- Provide expert level design that focuses on scalability, cost effectiveness and more
- Lead technical design discussions
- Develop top tier quality solutions both on prem and AWS focused, leveraging python ideally
- Develop IaC solutions leveraging Terraform (platform focus)
- Support juniors engineers on the team from a technical standpoint, compared to core people management focuses
Qualifications:
- Bachelors and or masters degree in Computer Science or related field
- 8+ years of experience working with Python, and within financial services (a plus)
- 4+ years of experience leading design, or architecture of large scale production systems
- 3+ years of experience developing large, high performance, distributed systems
- 3+ years of experience building high performance, cloud native solutions (AWS preferred)
- 3+ years working with container tech, like Kubernetes and Docker
- 2+ years of experience building CI/CD pipelines, ideally with Gitlab
This role is not open to C2C, or STEM OPT candidates.
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