Principal Java Software Engineer - Executive Director of Software Engineering

What you'll do

• Lead engineering domains and teams; establish standards and strategy for microservices, event-driven systems, cloud architecture, testing, and operations.
• Design, code, and operate the platform’s distributed systems, production services, infrastructure, and data layers; collaborate with business, trading, and operations stakeholders.
• Set multi-organization practices for agentic AI-enabled engineering and SDLC/TLM automation, including governance, validation, security, resilience, and measurement.

What they ask for

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts and 10+ years of applied experience, including 5+ years leading technologists.
• Experience developing or leading large or cross-functional teams of technologists.
• Expert-level Java (Spring Boot, Spring Integration, Hibernate/JPA) and/or Python, strong SQL and data modeling, deep AWS and hands-on Apache Kafka experience.
• Experience leading adoption of agentic AI-enabled engineering models, with knowledge of governance, responsible AI risk, security, and resilience.

Nice to have

• Experience delivering in a regulated environment, preferably financial services, with knowledge of audit, entitlement, and compliance requirements.

Tools

Java, Spring Boot, Spring Integration, Hibernate/JPA, Python, AWS, Apache Kafka, SQL

AI focus

Leads adoption of agentic AI-enabled engineering and SDLC/TLM automation, defining governance, quality controls, secure handling, measurement, and responsible AI practices.