Principle Software Engineer

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About Dimensional:

Dimensional was built around a set of ideas bigger than the firm itself. With a confidence in markets, deep connections to the academic community, and a focus on implementation, we go where the science leads, and continue to pursue new insights, both large and small, that can benefit our clients.

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.

You may be a fit for this role if you:

Are open-minded, curious, and resourceful.

Lead with vision and purpose to bring about transformational change.

Are passionate about/stay current with modern technologies/solutions

Solve problems systematically and transparently

Share ideas, solicit/integrate feedback, design and solve collaboratively

Demonstrate engineering and security mindsets

What you might work on:

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

Qualifications:

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

Preferred Competencies:

Site Reliability Engineering

Financial services industry knowledge or experience

Experience with:

Message Streaming systems, e.g., Kafka

GitHub

Build Pipelines, e.g., GitHub Actions, Team City

Airflow

PostrgeSQL

Ansible

Messaging & Queuing systems, e.g., SQS

Redis

Containerization and orchestration, e.g., Docker, Kubernetes

Okta, OAuth2, PlainID

Monitoring & Alerting, e.g., ELK, Grafana

ServiceNow

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Dimensional offers a variety of programs to help take care of you, your family, and your career, including comprehensive benefits, educational initiatives, and special celebrations of our history, culture, and growth.

It is the policy of the Company to provide equal opportunity for all employees and applicants. The Company recruits, hires, trains, promotes, compensates, and administers all personnel actions without regard to actual or perceived race, color, religion, religious practice, creed, sex, sex stereotyping, pregnancy (which includes pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), caregiver status, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender identity, national origin, age, mental or physical disability, ancestry, medical condition, marital status, familial status, domestic partnership status, military or veteran status or service, unemployment status, citizenship status or alienage, sexual orientation, status as a victim of domestic violence, status as a victim of stalking, status as a victim of sex offenses, genetic information, political activities or recreational activities, arrest or conviction record, salary history, natural hairstyle or any other status protected by applicable law except as otherwise required or permitted by law or regulation applicable to the Company or its affiliates.

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