Principal Software Engineer - Apollo Solutions

Principal Software Engineer

Boston – hybrid working (2/3 days per week on-site)

Salary: $220-250k base + bonus

My growing Financial Services client is looking for an experienced Principal Software Engineer to join their team in Boston on a hybrid working pattern.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with members of the Research group to review and define requirements for the compute platforms, workflow and observability systems
• Provide expert level design that ensures the solution to be scalable, cost effective and to have low maintenance
• Lead technical design discussions within the team
• Develop high quality solutions in both on premise environments and AWS Cloud using Python and other languages
• Develop Infrastructure-As-Code solutions using Terraform, develop the automated build and deploy pipelines with unit and integrated tests to ensure high quality and efficient operations
• Provide guidance to other team members on development tasks.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related discipline
• 8+ years of professional software development experience using Python or another object-oriented language
• Ideally have worked with Django, Flask or FastAPI
• Solid experience leading design or architecture of large-scale production systems
• 3+ years of experience developing large, high-performance, distributed systems
• Strong experience building high-performance cloud native solutions on public cloud (AWS preferred)
• Experience in container technologies like Kubernetes
• 1+ years of experience with Helm and Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform preferred)
• Strong in computer science fundamentals like data structures, algorithm design and complexity analysis

What you get in return:

• Competitive base salary
• Benefits
• Very high OTE with a solid performance bonus every year!
• Career progression and development opportunities
• The chance to work within a challenging and fast-paced environment with some of the best in the field…..

Sound like you? Please send across your updated resume, and we can arrange a confidential conversation to discuss in more detail!