Key Facts

Remote From:

New York (USA)

Full time

Senior (5-10 years)

English

Hard Skills

Other Skills

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Collaboration
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Ability To Meet Deadlines
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Communication
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Teamwork
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Intellectual Curiosity
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Mentorship

Roles & Responsibilities

5+ years of relevant software engineering experience at a top startup or technology firm
Expertise in at least one streaming technology such as Kafka, ZeroMQ, AWS SNS/SQS, or equivalent
Experience with Spark, Flink, Beam, or equivalent streaming data processing frameworks
Knowledge of data lake formats like Iceberg or Delta Lake and supporting tooling

Requirements:

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
Lead high-visibility engineering efforts on data-intensive core components

Arcesium

About Arcesium

Arcesium delivers an advanced data, operations, and analytics platform used by some of the world's most sophisticated financial institutions, including hedge funds, banks, institutional asset managers, and private equity firms. We designed our elegant Saas platform with industry-specific capabilities to harmonize massive amounts of disparate data and deliver unparalleled speed, accuracy, and decision-making capabilities. Our exceptionally consultative and collaborative approach coupled with deep domain expertise helps our clients achieve transformational business outcomes. Arcesium launched with the mission to power the entire investment lifecycle. Building on a platform developed and tested by the D. E. Shaw group, we received additional equity backing from a second seed client, Blackstone Alternative Asset Management. J.P. Morgan, an early adopter of our technologies, later made a strategic investment in the company. Today, Arcesium services over $675 billion in global client AUM with a staff of over 1,800 software engineering, accounting, operations, and treasury professionals.

Company type: Large

Founded: 2018

Company size: 1001 - 5000

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Job description

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.

Position Summary

Arcesium seeks an exceptional Principal Software Engineer – Data Platform to join our Technology team. The Principal Software Engineer on this team will help architect and implement the next generation of Arcesium’s data platform. This person should have a strong background in distributed systems, modern data lake technology, and infrastructure and will be able to lead high visibility engineering efforts.

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

Qualifications

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

Spark, Flink, Beam, or equivalent streaming data processing frameworks

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

The expected annual base salary for this position is $200,000-$250,000. Our 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, and 401k contribution matching.

Remote eligible states include: CA, CT, DE, FL, GA, IL, MA, MN, NJ, NY, NC, OH, PA, TX, VT, WA

Arcesium's Personal Data Privacy Notice for Candidates is linked here.

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 careers@arcesium.com.

Arcesium is an equal opportunity employer.

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