Lead Software Engineer - Parametric

Working Model

• Hybrid model requires working in the office three days per week, with remote or office work available on remaining days.

Role Overview

Technical Leadership

• Architect and lead a high-throughput AWS event-driven performance calculation engine processing financial data with accuracy and auditability requirements.
• Lead migration of legacy performance reporting applications to a cloud-native platform, defining strategy, sequencing, and risk mitigation.
• Design distributed systems using object-oriented languages, Apache Kafka, and AWS services.
• Define data modeling, schema design, and data structure standards for performance calculation use cases.
• Establish observability, alerting, and runbook standards for reliability and auditability.

Delivery and Engineering Practice

• Lead Agile delivery through sprint planning, backlog refinement, and iterative delivery.
• Provide pragmatic solutions to complex business problems within technology and regulatory standards.
• Author and review technical design documents, architecture decision records, and runbooks.
• Enforce code quality standards and conduct code and merge-request reviews.
• Build unit, integration, functional, and performance test coverage.
• Evaluate open-source and AWS cloud-native technologies and drive justified adoption.

People and Stakeholder Leadership

• Mentor and lead a global engineering team, provide feedback, support career development, and foster an inclusive engineering culture.
• Translate complex financial requirements into technical specifications with business analysts and stakeholders.
• Collaborate with architecture, data platform, and infrastructure teams.
• Communicate technical trade-offs and roadmap recommendations to senior leadership.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on software development experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field; a master's degree is a plus.
• Strong object-oriented development experience; C#/.NET is preferred.
• Significant cloud-native application experience; AWS is preferred.
• Experience leading software development teams.
• Experience with highly available, distributed, event-driven systems and Apache Kafka or equivalent platforms.
• Strong experience with relational databases, SQL, NoSQL stores, and data modeling.
• Experience delivering with Agile/Scrum and leading legacy system modernization.
• Fluency in AI/GenAI for engineering productivity and business and technical use cases.
• Infrastructure-as-Code experience, preferably Terraform; Snowflake, microservices, serverless, and CI/CD experience.
• Financial Services experience is a plus.

Compensation

• Expected base pay range is $115,000 to $225,000 per year.
• The total package may include commission, incentive compensation, discretionary bonuses, and other long- and short-term incentives.