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.
Team Summary
We are looking for a bright and exceptional Principal Engineer to join our Technology team. The candidate will be involved in building complex next-generation software and architecting solutions to support new technical and business initiatives.
What you'll do:
- Create and review architectural decisions for projects/products.
- Provide technology consultation and technical solutions for projects/products.
- Create and review high-level and low-level design of solutions.
- Ensure compliance of non-functional attributes (stability, security, availability, performance, etc.) of the product to internal standards
- Establish/Improve SDLC processes & ensure adherence to projects/products.
- Drive strategic initiatives aligning with the firm’s technology vision.
- Provide technical training and influence business/technical decisions.
- Own and execute projects independently from an architectural standpoint.
What you'll need:
- A bachelor’s degree in computer science (or, an equivalent course)
- 9+ years of relevant experience in Java, Python or similar object-oriented language(s)
- Technical hands-on with building large-scale solutions with any of the object-oriented language(s)
- Experience in end-to-end execution of enterprise-grade software
- Knowledge of design principles, fundamentals of architecture, quality processes and estimation techniques
- Understanding of relational and/or non-relations databases
- Experience with building high volume products that are highly available, scalable, and reliable on cloud platform.
- Experience in trouble shooting and resolving scalability challenges for existing apps.
- Experience with evaluation of open-source frameworks, libraries, and tools
- Ability to implement user interfaces using web-technologies and frameworks.
- The ideal candidate should have strong problem solving and analytical skills as well as a demonstrated passion for technology.
- Excellent reasoning ability and good interpersonal and communication skills are essential for this role as it involves interaction with business users.
Recruiting Security
Emails from genuine Arcesium recruiters who are employees of the company will always come from the @arcesium.com domain. In some cases, you may also be contacted by independent search firms engaged to recruit on our behalf; emails from their employees should always come from their firm's applicable domain. We'll never ask for your banking information or any payment as part of the recruiting process. If something seems off or you're contacted by an unexpected third party, please reach out to us at [email protected] (US/UK), [email protected] (India) or [email protected] (Portugal/Sweden).
Arcesium is an equal opportunity employer.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- 9+ years experience with Java, Python, or similar object-oriented languages
- Hands-on experience building large-scale solutions
- Experience in end-to-end execution of enterprise-grade software
- Knowledge of design principles, architecture fundamentals, quality processes, and estimation techniques
- Understanding of relational and/or non-relational databases
- Experience building highly available, scalable, reliable cloud-based products
- Experience troubleshooting and resolving scalability challenges
- Experience evaluating open-source frameworks, libraries, and tools
- Ability to implement user interfaces using web technologies and frameworks
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
Arcesium Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Arcesium and has not been reviewed or approved by Arcesium.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as comprehensive, including medical, dental, vision, mental‑health programs, and protections for life, accident, and disability. The scope indicates strong support for physical and mental well‑being.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include a 401(k) and a pension alongside financial protections such as life and disability insurance. These elements point to meaningful long‑term financial security within total rewards.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is characterized as generous, with extended maternity and supportive paternity leave in some locations, plus family and adoption assistance. This family focus complements broader time‑off and caregiving supports.
Arcesium Insights
What We Do
Arcesium is a global financial technology and professional services firm, delivering post-investment and enterprise data management solutions to some of the world's most sophisticated financial institutions, including hedge funds, banks, institutional asset managers, and private equity firms. Expertly designed to achieve a single source of truth throughout a client's ecosystem, Arcesium's cloud-native technology is built to systematize the most complex workflows and help clients achieve scale. Building on a platform developed and tested by investment and technology development firm, the D. E. Shaw group, Arcesium was launched as a joint venture with Blackstone Alternative Asset Management. J.P. Morgan, another large client, later joined as our third partner. Today, Arcesium services over $679 billion in global client AUM with a staff of over 1,500 software engineering, accounting, operations, and treasury professionals.
