Principal Software Development Engineering

Envestnet is hiring a Principal Software Development Engineer to shape technical strategy and build scalable reporting platforms for financial services. The role leads enterprise engineering initiatives, advances cloud-based architectures and AI/ML applications, and partners across engineering, product, QA, and business teams to deliver reliable reporting solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for building scalable, secure platforms in support of Envestnet business operations, including wealth management, financial data aggregation and advisor-driven technology solutions. Works across cloud-based architectures, integrating complex data sources and APIs to deliver reliable, high-performance systems. Collaborates with product managers, data scientists and compliance stakeholders to meet both business and regulatory requirements
• Defines and drives long-term technical strategy and architecture across multiple systems
• Leads large-scale, high-impact initiatives that align with business objectives
• Solves highly complex, ambiguous technical challenges with innovative solutions
• Influences engineering standards, policies, and best practices across the organization
• Acts as a key advisor to senior leadership on technology decisions
• Mentors senior engineers and develop future technical leaders
• Evaluates and adopts new technologies to drive innovation and competitive advantage
• Ensures system scalability, reliability, and performance at enterprise scale
• Leads cross-functional initiatives involving engineering, product, and business teams
• Designs and improves enterprise-grade CI/CD frameworks, deployment strategies, and automation pipelines
• Partners with DevOps/SRE to define infrastructure patterns (scalability, observability, resilience)
• Defines and advances enterprise-scale reporting technology, including modern application architectures, RESTful APIs, advanced SQL, and performance reporting logic for financial services clients
• Leads the design, enhancement, and production support of Python-based AI/ML applications, ensuring reliability, scalability, and alignment with business requirements
• Champions agentic coding workflows and AI-enabled development practices to accelerate delivery, improve quality, and increase efficiency across the software development lifecycle
• Partners with QA, business stakeholders, and engineering teams to translate complex reporting needs into robust, maintainable technical solutions

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field required
• Extensive experience translating complex business requirements into robust, maintainable technical solutions for reporting, analytics, or data-intensive platforms
• Strong knowledge of performance reporting calculations, financial reporting logic, data quality, calculation accuracy, and operational continuity in production environments
• Experience modernizing and maintaining large, complex legacy systems while preserving critical institutional and domain knowledge
• Strong technical background with .NET, xUnit, Reqnroll, RESTful APIs, and API management solutions such as Apigee
• Experience with PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Redis, and ElastiCache
• Experience with AWS services including EC2, S3, ELB, ASG, API Gateway, Lambda, RDS, EKS, CloudWatch, SQS
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform, DevOps practices, automation, agile delivery, Scrum, and test-driven development
• Experience partnering with QA, business stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to ensure successful end-to-end delivery and production support
• Demonstrated ability to perform code reviews, enforce engineering best practices, mentor engineers, and drive quality standards and design principles
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence technical direction, advise senior leaders, and support knowledge transfer for critical reporting platform capabilities
• This position is open to candidates requiring visa sponsorship