At Arcesium (Permanent), in Lisbon, Portugal
Expires at: 2024-12-04
Remote policy: Partial remote
Arcesium launched with the mission to power the entire investment lifecycle. Building on a platform developed and tested by the D. E. Shaw group, we received additional equity backing from a second seed client, Blackstone Alternative Asset Management. J.P. Morgan, an early adopter of our technologies, later made a strategic investment in the company. Today, Arcesium services over $677 billion in global client AUM with a staff of over 1,950 software engineering, accounting, operations, and treasury professionals. Arcesium is headquartered in New York, with offices across India and London.
Arcesium delivers an advanced data, operations, and analytics platform used by some of the world's most sophisticated asset managers and financial services organizations. We designed our elegant SaaS platform with industry-specific capabilities to harmonize massive amounts of disparate data and deliver unparalleled speed, accuracy, and decision-making capabilities. Our exceptionally consultative and collaborative approach coupled with deep domain expertise helps our clients achieve transformational business outcomes.
We are looking for a bright and exceptional Lead Engineer to join our core infrastructure technology team. The Infrastructure team is responsible for multiple functional areas which include Access & Identity Management, Linux Compute, Discovery, Networking, Observability, SDLC, and Storage, built on top of AWS, which provide the foundation upon which our customer-facing financial technology platform builds and runs. Infrastructure is a high-impact engineering team that builds new services, automates systems, integrates cloud & open-source software, and operates critical systems depending on the needs of the firm.
What you'll do:
Own the distributed systems ecosystem that powers our SaaS API-driven business relied upon by our customers around the world.
Construct innovative infrastructure systems, applications, and tools that streamline and enhance how Arcesium's applications interoperate.
Take ownership of our critical technology infrastructure -- built on top of multiple underlying technologies, tools, and programming languages.
Provide highly available, reliable critical services to our customer-facing applications and developers.
Be the owner and/or Subject Matter Expert (SME) for one or more subsystems or services.
Lead by example, demonstrating strong engineering skills in areas including coding, code quality, code reviews, testing, scalability, documentation, etc.
Contribute to technical design and architecture decisions, considering trade-offs of choices, making decisions independently where appropriate, and presenting reasoned options for decision-making by others.
Drive process improvements efficiency, and evangelize engineering best practices.
Be an active participant and promoter of written and transparent collaboration.
Lead project execution, taking responsibility for moving projects forward.
Main requirements 5+ years of relevant infrastructure experience preferred, but what truly matters to us is your demonstrated ownership of critical systems, potential for continued growth, and your ability to make an impact. Show us what you have accomplished and what you aspire to achieve.
Demonstrated desire to take ownership of critical systems and successfully deliver systems and features. Whether it is Linux, Kubernetes , DNS, Kerberos, or AWS , we are looking for candidates who aspire to manage and operate vital polyglot infrastructure systems. Proven track record of doing so is a desirable plus.
Advanced proficiency in Python and an eagerness to work with languages like Java , Go, and Bash as needed. Experience in running critical workloads in AWS is a definite plus.
Advanced knowledge and demonstrated experience with HTTP and other network protocols, load balancing, ALBs, nginx, Apache httpd, Kubernetes ingress, Kerberos, SAML , and other SSO technologies, authentication , and authorization
Ability to craft reliable and performant solutions to problems using a combination of software you write and open-source technology.
Display a curious mind, enthusiasm for technology infrastructure, a knack for problem-solving, and the drive to take initiative and work with the right combination of independence and collaboration.