Senior Software Development Engineer

About the role

The application window will close October 01, 2026.

Job Location

The primary work location for this role is Berwyn, PA with a hybrid work model.

What makes this team exciting

The team builds and operates mission-critical trading and investment technology that powers adaptive wealth management. They develop scalable, resilient systems that support the full transaction lifecycle, combining distributed systems engineering, financial domain expertise, and platform reliability. Engineers partner closely with product, platform, and risk/compliance teams to modernize services, leverage AI and automation, and solve complex challenges end-to-end, all while delivering solutions that operate reliably in a regulated environment.

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.
• Designs, develops, and maintains complex features or system components.
• Ledesigns technical design for small-to-medium features or services.
• Identifies root causes of issues and implement robust, scalable fixes.
• Optimizes code for performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Mentors junior engineers (P1–P2) and provide technical guidance.
• Drives improvements in coding standards, testing practices, and CI/CD processes.
• Collaborates with stakeholders to refine requirements and clarify technical constraints.
• Troubleshoots production issues and lead resolution efforts.
• Balances multiple priorities across projects with minimal supervision.
• Implements and improves basic observability (logging, monitoring, alerting) for owned services.
• Supports production troubleshooting in collaboration with DevOps/SRE teams.
• Designs and delivers scalable fintech product services and distributed systems with a focus on performance, resilience, and transactional correctness.
• Defines service boundaries, data ownership models, and fault-tolerant workflows for high-throughput, low-latency applications.
• Designs and implements AI-driven solutions and automation capabilities while ensuring security, governance, auditability, and compliance within regulated financial environments.
• Partners with product, platform, and compliance stakeholders to translate business and regulatory requirements into production-ready technical solutions.

What You’ll Need to Bring

• Strong experience designing distributed, transactional systems in fintech or regulated domains.
• Deep understanding of data consistency, idempotency, fault tolerance, and scalability.
• Hands-on experience building stateful AI agents with well-defined short- and long-term memory.
• Solid understanding of security, observability, and production incident handling.
• Ability to communicate architectural decisions and trade-offs clearly.
• Languages & Frameworks: Java, Spring Boot, Python
• Data & Systems: SQL, Distributed Systems, Transactional Services Messaging: Kafka, Async Messaging
• Cloud & Platform: Cloud Infrastructure, Kubernetes, Docker
• AI & Agents: Agentic AI (LangGraph), RAG, Vector Stores
• Security & Ops: Security Tooling, Observability & Monitoring Platforms

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with event driven architectures (Kafka, async messaging).
• Familiarity with AI cost control, evaluation, and governance practices.
• Prior experience in trading systems, real-time financial platforms, or regulated production environments.

Why You’ll Enjoy Working at Envestnet

Help shape the future of WealthTech. At Envestnet you’ll gain hands-on experience and collaborate with some of the industry’s brightest minds to deliver meaningful, innovative solutions that make a real difference. We value flexibility in how and where work gets done, and we recognize strong performance with meaningful rewards—because your contributions should drive both business success and your own personal growth.

Our Commitment to Inclusion & Belonging

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and applicants. We welcome and value individuals of all backgrounds and do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, citizenship status, or any other status protected by applicable law. We encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply.

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