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Principal Distributed Systems Engineer

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200K-250K Annually
Mid level
The Principal Distributed Systems Engineer will design and build technologies for hedge funds, leading engineering efforts on data-intensive components.
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Company Overview

Arcesium is a global financial technology firm that solves complex data-driven challenges faced by some of the world’s most sophisticated financial institutions. We constantly innovate our platform and capabilities to meet tomorrow’s challenges, anticipate the risks our clients encounter, and design advanced solutions to help our clients achieve transformational business outcomes.   


Financial technology is a high-growth industry as change and innovation continue to disrupt the status-quo and prompt major transformation. Arcesium is at a particularly interesting time in our own growth as we look to leverage our successfully established market position and expand operations in pursuit of strategic new business opportunities. We value intellectual curiosity, proactive ownership, and collaboration with colleagues, and we empower you to meaningfully contribute from day one and accelerate your professional development.




Responsibilities

  • Building next generation technology used by some of the most sophisticated hedge funds in the world
  • Designing exciting new products for our offering with best of breed distributed systems technologies
  • Leading high-visibility engineering efforts on some of our data intensive core components

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will have a strong academic background in computer science and at least 3-5 years of relevant experience as a software engineer at a top startup or technology firm.


They must possess expertise in at least one of the following:

  • Kafka or equivalent streaming technology
  • Distributed cache/in memory data grids like Redis, Hazelcast, Ignite, or Memcached
  • Columnar databases like Cassandra or HBase
  • Hadoop MapReduce, Spark or Flink

They must also work with these technologies:

  • Java (or any other JVM language), Go, Haskell, or C#
  • Relational Databases (SQL)

The expected annual base salary for this position is $200,000-$250,000. Our compensation package includes variable compensation in the form of a year-end bonus, guaranteed in the first year of hire, benefits including medical and prescription drug coverage, and 401k contribution matching.


Remote eligible states include: NY, NJ, MA, MN, IL, FL, TX, OH, PA, CT, NC, CA, GA

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Arcesium is an equal opportunity employer.

Top Skills

C#
Cassandra
Flink
Go
Hadoop
Haskell
Hazelcast
Hbase
Ignite
Java
Kafka
Mapreduce
Memcached
Redis
Spark
SQL

Arcesium New York, New York, USA Office

1166 Avenue of the Americas, 4th Floor, New York, NY, United States, 10036

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