Job Description:

As a Principal Full-Stack Engineer within the Platform Engineering Team you will participate in the design, development and implementation of a quickly evolving ecosystem spanning infrastructure, data, application and security platforms. Our flexible and extensible platform includes on-prem, cloud-based and hybrid solutions.

You will have the opportunity to understand our client's needs, collaborate on the design of solutions, and work with emerging engineering tools and best practices. In this role, you will design, develop, document, and test multiple services. A successful candidate will demonstrate strong technical and analytical ability across multiple tech stacks. Additionally, you will bring passion for creating efficiencies and adding controls/reducing risk through automation while optimizing and building applications from the ground up.

You may be a fit for this role if you:

Are open-minded, curious, and resourceful.

Lead with vision and purpose to bring about transformational change.

Are passionate about/stay current with modern technologies/solutions

Solve problems systematically and transparently

Share ideas, solicit/integrate feedback, design and solve collaboratively

Demonstrate engineering and security mindsets

What you might work on:

Build and deliver technology services in support of the technology platform

Collaborate with business analysts, product owners, subject matter experts, and project managers to ensure successful delivery to our customers
Lead technical team in design and engineering solutions
- Participate in design to ensure modern, secure, scalable, best-practice development and operations, e.g., everything as code, zero-trust, etc.
- Critique and approve code changes for other developers
- Mentor & develop junior engineers
Mature our technology processes
- Leverage your experience as a Principal Engineer to improve our architecture patterns
- Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines and develop supportable solutions
- Improve development practices

Write unit/integration tests, contribute to engineering wiki, and write detailed documentation

Integrate platform services with existing systems such as ServiceNow

Provide technical troubleshooting and support for production systems
Collaborate with subject matter experts in a variety of areas to drive the success of our developers, business users, and clients

Stay abreast of emerging technologies and partner with technical product owners to define service roadmap

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, math, computer science, or a related field, or equivalent work experience

10+ years of programming experience in Python (open source) or equivalent

5+ years supervising other developers, reviewing and approving code changes through standard SDLC processes

Experience with automated acceptance testing and ability to write unit-tested, maintainable code

Proficiency in building RESTful APIs and web services

Strong understanding of cyber security risks and demonstrated ability to design and build highly secure applications

Significant experience working in a dynamic and interactive team environment to build world-class software implementations
- Proven track record of delivering value and innovation through CI/CD

Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service environment

Experience working with Agile/Scrum methodologies with a software development and integration focus

Preferred Competencies:

Site Reliability Engineering
Financial services industry knowledge or experience
Experience with:

Message Streaming systems, e.g., Kafka
GitHub
Build Pipelines, e.g., GitHub Actions, Team City

Airflow

PostrgeSQL

Ansible

Messaging & Queuing systems, e.g., SQS

Redis

Containerization and orchestration, e.g., Docker, Kubernetes

Okta, OAuth2, PlainID
Monitoring & Alerting, e.g., ELK, Grafana
ServiceNow

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