Principle Software Engineer

Dimensional Fund Advisors•Austin, TX

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Technology Department at Dimensional leverages the rapidly evolving state of the art to engineer the platforms that power the innovative, research-driven financial and technical products to improve our client’s financial lives. As a Principal Full-Stack Engineer within the Platform Engineering Team you will participate in the design, development and implementation of a quickly evolving ecosystem spanning infrastructure, data, application and security platforms. Our flexible and extensible platform includes on-prem, cloud-based and hybrid solutions. You will have the opportunity to understand our client's needs, collaborate on the design of solutions, and work with emerging engineering tools and best practices. In this role, you will design, develop, document, and test multiple services. A successful candidate will demonstrate strong technical and analytical ability across multiple tech stacks. Additionally, you will bring passion for creating efficiencies and adding controls/reducing risk through automation while optimizing and building applications from the ground up.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, math, computer science, or a related field, or equivalent work experience
10+ years of programming experience in Python (open source) or equivalent
5+ years supervising other developers, reviewing and approving code changes through standard SDLC processes
Experience with automated acceptance testing and ability to write unit-tested, maintainable code
Proficiency in building RESTful APIs and web services
Strong understanding of cyber security risks and demonstrated ability to design and build highly secure applications
Significant experience working in a dynamic and interactive team environment to build world-class software implementations
Proven track record of delivering value and innovation through CI/CD
Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service environment
Experience working with Agile/Scrum methodologies with a software development and integration focus

Nice To Haves

Site Reliability Engineering
Financial services industry knowledge or experience
Experience with Message Streaming systems, e.g., Kafka
Experience with GitHub
Experience with Build Pipelines, e.g., GitHub Actions, Team City
Experience with Airflow
Experience with PostrgeSQL
Experience with Ansible
Experience with Messaging & Queuing systems, e.g., SQS
Experience with Redis
Experience with Containerization and orchestration, e.g., Docker, Kubernetes
Experience with Okta, OAuth2, PlainID
Experience with Monitoring & Alerting, e.g., ELK, Grafana
Experience with ServiceNow

Responsibilities

Build and deliver technology services in support of the technology platform
Collaborate with business analysts, product owners, subject matter experts, and project managers to ensure successful delivery to our customers
Lead technical team in design and engineering solutions
Participate in design to ensure modern, secure, scalable, best-practice development and operations, e.g., everything as code, zero-trust, etc.
Critique and approve code changes for other developers
Mentor & develop junior engineers
Mature our technology processes
Leverage your experience as a Principal Engineer to improve our architecture patterns
Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines and develop supportable solutions
Improve development practices
Write unit/integration tests, contribute to engineering wiki, and write detailed documentation
Integrate platform services with existing systems such as ServiceNow
Provide technical troubleshooting and support for production systems
Collaborate with subject matter experts in a variety of areas to drive the success of our developers, business users, and clients
Stay abreast of emerging technologies and partner with technical product owners to define service roadmap