Principal Software Engineer - Data Platform - Remote

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.

In Short

• 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

• The ideal candidate will have a strong academic background in computer science and 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
• Familiarity with Iceberg, delta lake, or other data lake table formats and supporting tooling
• 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

• Compensation package includes variable compensation in the form of a year-end bonus, guaranteed in the first year of hire
• Benefits including medical and prescription drug coverage
• 401k contribution matching