Principal Software Engineer - Data Platform

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: NY, NJ, MA, MN, IL, FL, TX, OH Arcesium and its affiliates do not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other category protected by law. Note that for us, this is more than just a legal boilerplate. We are genuinely committed to these principles, which form an important part of our corporate culture, and are eager to hear from extraordinarily well qualified individuals having a wide range of backgrounds and personal characteristics.