Principal Software Development Engineer

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.

• Defines and drives long-term technical strategy and architecture across multiple systems.
• Leads large-scale, high-impact initiatives that align with business objectives.
• Solves highly complex, ambiguous technical challenges with innovative solutions.
• Influences engineering standards, policies, and best practices across the organization.
• Acts as a key advisor to senior leadership on technology decisions.
• Mentors senior engineers and develop future technical leaders.
• Evaluates and adopts new technologies to drive innovation and competitive advantage.
• Ensures system scalability, reliability, and performance at enterprise scale.
• Leads cross-functional initiatives involving engineering, product, and business teams.
• Designs and improves enterprise-grade CI/CD frameworks, deployment strategies, and automation pipelines.
• Partners with DevOps/SRE to define infrastructure patterns (scalability, observability, resilience).
• Shapes and advances scalable platform capabilities, including cloud technologies, reusable services, APIs, and internal developer platforms that support engineering teams across the organization.
• Champions the adoption of AI-enabled engineering capabilities, including modular AI components and agentic coding workflows, to accelerate delivery velocity, improve software quality, and enhance developer productivity.
• Provides enterprise-wide technical leadership to drive modern engineering practices and platform evolution at scale.

• Candidates should demonstrate the relevant experience, skills, and capabilities needed to successfully perform in the role. Relevant experience may be gained through current responsibilities, prior roles, project work, leadership opportunities, or other comparable experiences.
• Extensive experience defining architecture for scalable, reliable, high-performing enterprise systems and large-scale infrastructure initiatives.
• Background in platform engineering, cloud platforms, modern deployment models, reusable services, APIs, and internal developer or product platforms.
• Experience influencing engineering standards, technical policies, best practices, architecture governance, and organization-wide technology decisions.
• Experience evaluating and adopting emerging technologies to improve scalability, reliability, performance, productivity, and competitive advantage.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Redis, and ElastiCache.
• Experience with AWS services including any of the following - EC2, S3, ELB, ASG, API Gateway, Lambda, RDS, EKS, CloudWatch, SQS.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform, DevOps practices, automation, agile delivery, Scrum, and test-driven development.
• Experience productizing AI capabilities into reusable services, APIs, and internal platforms, including standardized AI pipelines for prompting, retrieval, reasoning, validation, and enterprise reuse.

Nice-to-Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field.
• Technical background with .NET, C#.
• Knowledge of modular AI components, including agents, tools, evaluators, and composable AI patterns across products.
• Experience mentoring senior engineers, developing future technical leaders, and championing agentic coding workflows to accelerate delivery and improve quality throughout the SDLC.
• Proven ability to solve complex and ambiguous technical challenges and advise senior leadership on technical trade-offs.

_This role offers a base salary range of $184,200 to $230,300. The range listed represents a good-faith estimate of base salary compensation for this position and does not include incentive compensation, equity or benefits. Individual pay will be determined based on factors including, but not limited to, relevant experience, skills, education, certifications, and geographic location, in accordance with applicable pay transparency laws. This role is eligible for an additional incentive component as part of the total rewards package. We provide a comprehensive suite of benefits - subject to Envestnet’s plan eligibility rules - that support your overall well-being including, medical insurance, paid time off (PTO), 401k company match, paid parental leave, education reimbursement, disability coverage and mental health & wellness support. Our investment in you means supporting you professionally, financially, and personally at every stage of your journey with us. Please visit our benefits page on our career site to learn more.

Our Commitment to Inclusion & Belonging

About Envestnet Envestnet is an adaptive WealthTech company that is redefining the future of wealth management by helping advisors meet the moment with its comprehensive technology, actionable insights, and industry leading support. Backed by over 25 years of experience and approximately $7.0 trillion in platform assets, Envestnet is trusted by over one third of financial advisors across leading banks, wealth managers, brokerages, and RIAs.

For a deeper look at how Envestnet is shaping the future of financial advice, visit www.envestnet.com.

The Team You’ll Join

On the Tamarac development team, we build one of the industry’s most advanced portfolio management and trading platforms for RIAs. We tackle complex engineering challenges every day-from large-scale data ingestion and analytics to deep system integrations, high-performance trading algorithms, and a robust full-stack web experience used by thousands of advisors.

As we continue to scale the platform-supporting 50+ million trades annually-we’re modernizing our architecture to meet growing demand while delivering innovative, advisor-focused features. Our engineers collaborate across disciplines to build AI-powered insights, enhance cross-platform capabilities, and design resilient, cloud-native systems.

This is a rare opportunity to join us in shaping the technical roadmap of a leading trading platform-driving how we scale, evolve, and deliver capabilities that elevate both the advisor and client experience, with real-world impact from day one., 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. If you’re looking for a place where your work has impact, your development is supported, and your contributions are truly valued, Envestnet is where you can build your future.