Lead Software Development Engineer

Envestnet is a WealthTech company providing technology and insights for wealth management. The Lead Software Development Engineer will architect and deliver scalable, secure, mission-critical fintech platforms, lead technical decisions and cross-functional Agile delivery, and improve reliability, deployment automation, and observability. The role also leads the governed adoption of AI capabilities in regulated production environments.

Responsibilities:

• Architects and designs systems, services, or platforms with broad impact
• Leads technical decision-making for major features or initiatives
• Breaks down complex problems into scalable and maintainable solutions
• Drives cross-team collaboration and align technical solutions with business goals
• Establishes and enforces best practices in architecture, coding, and deployment
• Mentors engineers across multiple levels and contribute to talent development
• Anticipates technical risks and proactively implement mitigation strategies
• Leads incident response and root cause analysis for critical issues
• Influences roadmap planning through technical insight and feasibility analysis
• Partners with DevOps/SRE to improve system reliability, deployment automation, and observability
• Designs and maintains CI/CD pipelines for owned services, improving deployment speed and safety
• Implements infrastructure-aware design decisions (scalability, failover, resiliency, cost)
• Owns the architecture and delivery of mission-critical fintech services, ensuring transactional correctness, clear service boundaries, and effective data ownership models
• Leads the adoption of AI-driven and agentic AI capabilities, establishing appropriate governance, guardrails, auditability, and compliance controls for production use
• Leads a cross-functional Agile/Scrum team, supporting sprint planning, estimation, and delivery execution to achieve successful business outcomes
• Partners with product, platform, and risk/compliance stakeholders to translate complex business and regulatory requirements into scalable, production-ready solutions

Requirements:

• The primary work location for this role is the United States with a remote work model
• • Candidates should demonstrate the relevant experience, skills, and capabilities needed to successfully perform in the role. Relevant experience may be gained through current responsibilities, prior roles, project work, leadership opportunities, or other comparable experiences
• • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field required
• • Strong background in building distributed, transactional systems in fintech or other regulated domains, with deep understanding of data consistency, idempotency, fault tolerance, and scalability
• • Solid understanding of security, observability, and production incident handling
• • Demonstrated ability to lead architectural decisions, define technical standards, and communicate trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• • Experience with event driven architectures (Kafka, async messaging), Cloud infrastructures (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• • Familiarity with AI cost control, evaluation, and governance practices
• • Prior experience in trading systems, real‑time financial platforms, or regulated production environments
• This position is not open to candidates requiring visa sponsorship
• Master's preferred
• • Tech Stack:
  • Languages & Frameworks: Java, Spring Boot, Python
  • Data & Systems: SQL, Distributed Systems, Transactional Services
  • Messaging: Kafka, Async Messaging
  • Cloud & Platform: Cloud Infrastructure, Kubernetes, Docker
  • AI & Agents: Agentic AI (LangGraph), RAG, Vector Stores
  • Security & Ops: Security Tooling, Observability & Monitoring Platforms