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Envestnet
Principal Software Development Engineer
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A Software Developer or Engineer designs or improves computer software. Oversees the entire software development process. Analyzes customer or user needs, designs programs, writes code or instructs computer programmers, tests design, and documents programs. May assist with upgrades or maintenance. May specialize in the design of computer applications or computer systems.
$114,976 / year median in the U.S.
+10% projected growth
Job Description
Description The application window will close August 21, 2026 Job Location The primary work location for this role is remote anywhere in the U.S. About Envestnet Envestnet is an adaptive WealthTech company that is redefining the future of wealth management by helping advisors meet the moment with its comprehensive technology, actionable insights, and industry leading support. Backed by over 25 years of experience and approximately $7.0 trillion in platform assets, Envestnet is trusted by over one third of financial advisors across leading banks, wealth managers, brokerages, and RIAs. For a deeper look at how Envestnet is shaping the future of financial advice, visit www.envestnet.com . The Team You'll Join On the Tamarac development team, we build one of the industry's most advanced portfolio management and trading platforms for RIAs. We tackle complex engineering challenges every day—from large‑scale data ingestion and analytics to deep system integrations, high‑performance trading algorithms, and a robust full‑stack web experience used by thousands of advisors. As we continue to scale the platform—supporting 50+ million trades annually—we're modernizing our architecture to meet growing demand while delivering innovative, advisor‑focused features. Our engineers collaborate across disciplines to build AI‑powered insights, enhance cross‑platform capabilities, and design resilient, cloud‑native systems. This is a rare opportunity to join us in shaping the technical roadmap of a leading trading platform—driving how we scale, evolve, and deliver capabilities that elevate both the advisor and client experience, with real‑world impact from day one. How You 'll Contribute 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).
- Shapes and advances scalable platform capabilities, including cloud technologies, reusable services, APIs, and internal developer platforms that support engineering teams across the organization.
- Champions the adoption of AI-enabled engineering capabilities, including modular AI components and agentic coding workflows, to accelerate delivery velocity, improve software quality, and enhance developer productivity.
- Provides enterprise-wide technical leadership to drive modern engineering practices and platform evolution at scale. What You 'll Need to Bring
- 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.
- Extensive experience defining architecture for scalable, reliable, high-performing enterprise systems and large-scale infrastructure initiatives.
- Background in platform engineering, cloud platforms, modern deployment models, reusable services, APIs, and internal developer or product platforms.
- Experience influencing engineering standards, technical policies, best practices, architecture governance, and organization-wide technology decisions.
- Experience evaluating and adopting emerging technologies to improve scalability, reliability, performance, productivity, and competitive advantage.
- Experience with Postgre
SQL, SQL
Server, Redis, and ElastiCache.- Experience with AWS services including any of the following - 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 productizing AI capabilities into reusable services, APIs, and internal platforms, including standardized AI pipelines for prompting, retrieval, reasoning, validation, and enterprise reuse.