Principal Software Engineer

Egreenservices; Jersey City (NJ); Remote; USD 203,000 - 289,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote role

Job summary

Investment Solutions Group in Jersey City, NJ is hiring a Principal Software Engineer for a remote role with a generous compensation range. You will protect latency budgets, lead critical refactors, and optimize CI/CD to reduce cloud spend while growing your Kafka expertise.

The role emphasizes collaboration with leadership and analysts, delivering robust, scalable software across Go and Python services. Apply now to shape architecture and drive delivery from Jersey City.

Qualifications

• Reliability enabling hard assignments.
• Experience presenting to principal leadership.
• Thrives in collaborative, deadline-driven settings.

Responsibilities

• Push Python changes safely behind flags to enable quick rollbacks.
• Refactor critical technology module.
• Right-size CI/CD infrastructure to trim cloud bills.
• Sketch and defend architecture before building it.
• Maintain Python services during holiday traffic surges.
• Collaborate with analysts to align Go models with real behavior.
• Manage infrastructure as code across staging and production.
• Pair-program handling tricky CI/CD edge cases.

Skills

Python

Kafka

Go

CI/CD

Cloud

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Job description

We're hiring a Principal Software Engineer who treats latency budgets like personal grudges and Change Management like a second language. Frame it as Investment Solutions Group trusting your 8 years with $203,000 - $289,000, a technology mandate, and the room to grow into leadership.

Key Responsibilities

• Push Python changes safely behind flags so Jersey City, NJ rollbacks take seconds
• Refactor the technology module Investment Solutions Group has been afraid to touch
• Trim Investment Solutions Group's cloud bill by right-sizing the CI/CD infrastructure in Jersey City, NJ
• Sketch the Critical Thinking architecture, defend it in review, then build the thing
• Keep the technology Python service humming through Jersey City's holiday traffic surge
• Pair with technology analysts so Investment Solutions Group's Go models match real behavior
• Configure and manage infrastructure as code across staging and production
• Pair-program tricky CI/CD edge cases with engineers across Jersey City, NJ

What You'll Bring

• The kind of reliability that earns you the hard assignments
• Demonstrated comfort presenting to principal leadership
• Experience thriving in a collaborative, deadline-driven setting like Investment Solutions Group
• A team player who lifts up colleagues and shares credit
• Proven Kafka judgment when the textbook answer doesn't fit

Trusted by businesses nationwide, Investment Solutions Group operates a craft-focused technology platform from its Jersey City base. We believe the best technology decisions get made closest to the work, not three floors up.

This remote role pays $203,000 - $289,000 and includes flexible scheduling plus a structured plan to grow your Kafka expertise.

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