Principal Software Engineer
| Company | Arrowstreet Capital |
|---|---|
| Location | Boston, MA, USA |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related discipline
- 8+ years of professional software development experience using Python or another object-oriented language, financial services exposure is a plus
- 4+ years of experience leading design or architecture of large-scale production systems
- 3+ years of experience developing large, high-performance, distributed systems
- 3+ years of experience building high-performance cloud native solutions on public cloud (AWS preferred)
- 3+ years of experience in container technologies like Kubernetes and Docker
- 2+ years of experience in building resilient CI/CD pipelines, strong knowledge of Git, and familiarity with a DevOps platform like GitLab
- 1+ years of experience with Helm and Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform preferred)
- Strong in computer science fundamentals like data structures, algorithm design and complexity analysis
- Ability to write elegant code, and comfortable with picking up new technologies independently
- Self-motivated and self-directed, ability to translate technical direction into functional solutions
Responsibilities
- Work closely with members of the Research group to review and define requirements for the compute platforms, workflow and observability systems, and multiple services (such as Discovery, AI and the others)
- Provide expert level design that ensures the solution to be scalable, cost effective and to have low maintenance
- Lead technical design discussions within the team to gather feedback, discuss the merits and risks of different approaches, and reach consensus on the target architecture
- Develop high quality solutions in both on premise environments and AWS Cloud using Python and other languages
- Develop Infrastructure-As-Code solutions using Terraform, develop the automated build and deploy pipelines with unit and integrated tests to ensure high quality and efficient operations
- Provide guidance to other team members on development tasks
- Promote high quality code via code reviews
- Provide production support to prevent disruptions to investment processes
Preferred Qualifications
- Financial services exposure is a plus