What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal Software Engineer - Data Platform position at Arcesium?
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.
Salary : $200,000 - $250,000
