Principle Software Engineer

Dimensional Fund Advisors; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 210,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Educational initiatives

Company celebrations

Job summary

Dimensional Fund Advisors seeks a Principal Full-Stack Engineer to design, develop, and implement a rapidly evolving platform spanning infrastructure, data, applications, and security. You will lead technical teams, craft secure, scalable solutions, and drive automation across everything-as-code environments.

You will mentor engineers, improve architecture patterns, and shape CI/CD pipelines while collaborating with analysts, product owners, and PMs to deliver value to clients.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, math, computer science, or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 10+ years of programming experience in Python (open source) or equivalent.
• 5+ years supervising other developers, reviewing and approving code changes through standard SDLC processes.
• Experience with automated acceptance testing and ability to write unit-tested, maintainable code.
• Proficiency in building RESTful APIs and web services.
• Strong understanding of cyber security risks and demonstrated ability to design and build highly secure applications.
• Significant experience working in a dynamic and interactive team environment to build world-class software implementations.
• Proven track record of delivering value and innovation through CI/CD.
• Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service environment.
• Experience working with Agile/Scrum methodologies with a software development and integration focus.

Responsibilities

• Build and deliver technology services in support of the technology platform.
• Collaborate with business analysts, product owners, subject matter experts, and project managers to ensure successful delivery to our customers.
• Lead technical team in design and engineering solutions.
• Participate in design to ensure modern, secure, scalable, best-practice development and operations, e.g., everything as code, zero-trust, etc.
• Critique and approve code changes for other developers.
• Mentor & develop junior engineers.
• Mature our technology processes.
• Leverage your experience as a Principal Engineer to improve our architecture patterns.
• Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines and develop supportable solutions.
• Improve development practices.
• Write unit/integration tests, contribute to engineering wiki, and write detailed documentation.
• Integrate platform services with existing systems such as ServiceNow.
• Provide technical troubleshooting and support for production systems.
• Collaborate with subject matter experts in a variety of areas to drive the success of our developers, business users, and clients.
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies and partner with technical product owners to define service roadmap.

Skills

Python programming

Leadership & mentoring

RESTful APIs

CI/CD

Security mindset

Agile/Scrum

Code review

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering, math, or computer science

Tools

GitHub Actions

TeamCity

Kafka

Airflow

PostgreSQL

Ansible

SQS

Redis

Docker

Kubernetes

Okta

OAuth2

PlainID

ELK

Grafana

ServiceNow

Job description

Job Description

About Dimensional: Dimensional was built around a set of ideas bigger than the firm itself. With a confidence in markets, deep connections to the academic community, and a focus on implementation, we go where the science leads, and continue to pursue new insights, both large and small, that can benefit our clients. The Technology Department at Dimensional leverages the rapidly evolving state of the art to engineer the platforms that power the innovative, research-driven financial and technical products to improve our client’s financial lives.

As a Principal Full-Stack Engineer within the Platform Engineering Team you will participate in the design, development and implementation of a quickly evolving ecosystem spanning infrastructure, data, application and security platforms. Our flexible and extensible platform includes on-prem, cloud-based and hybrid solutions. You will have the opportunity to understand our client's needs, collaborate on the design of solutions, and work with emerging engineering tools and best practices. In this role, you will design, develop, document, and test multiple services. A successful candidate will demonstrate strong technical and analytical ability across multiple tech stacks. Additionally, you will bring passion for creating efficiencies and adding controls/reducing risk through automation while optimizing and building applications from the ground up. You may be a fit for this role if you:
Are open-minded, curious, and resourceful.
Lead with vision and purpose to bring about transformational change.
Are passionate about/stay current with modern technologies/solutions.
Solve problems systematically and transparently.
Share ideas, solicit/integrate feedback, design and solve collaboratively.
Demonstrate engineering and security mindsets.

What you might work on:

• Build and deliver technology services in support of the technology platform
• Collaborate with business analysts, product owners, subject matter experts, and project managers to ensure successful delivery to our customers
• Lead technical team in design and engineering solutions
• Participate in design to ensure modern, secure, scalable, best-practice development and operations, e.g., everything as code, zero-trust, etc.
• Critique and approve code changes for other developers
• Mentor & develop junior engineers
• Mature our technology processes
• Leverage your experience as a Principal Engineer to improve our architecture patterns
• Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines and develop supportable solutions
• Improve development practices
• Write unit/integration tests, contribute to engineering wiki, and write detailed documentation
• Integrate platform services with existing systems such as ServiceNow
• Provide technical troubleshooting and support for production systems
• Collaborate with subject matter experts in a variety of areas to drive the success of our developers, business users, and clients
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies and partner with technical product owners to define service roadmap

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, math, computer science, or a related field, or equivalent work experience
• 10+ years of programming experience in Python (open source) or equivalent
• 5+ years supervising other developers, reviewing and approving code changes through standard SDLC processes
• Experience with automated acceptance testing and ability to write unit-tested, maintainable code
• Proficiency in building RESTful APIs and web services
• Strong understanding of cyber security risks and demonstrated ability to design and build highly secure applications
• Significant experience working in a dynamic and interactive team environment to build world-class software implementations
• Proven track record of delivering value and innovation through CI/CD
• Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service environment
• Experience working with Agile/Scrum methodologies with a software development and integration focus

Preferred Competencies

• Site Reliability Engineering
• Financial services industry knowledge or experience
• Experience with Message Streaming systems, e.g., Kafka
• GitHub Build Pipelines, e.g., GitHub Actions, Team City
• Airflow
• PostrgreSQL
• Ansible
• Messaging & Qu queing systems, e.g., SQS
• Redis
• Containerization and orchestration, e.g., Docker, Kubernetes
• Okta, OAuth2, PlainID
• Monitoring & Alerting, e.g., ELK, Grafana
• ServiceNow

Benefits

• comprehensive benefits
• educational initiatives
• special celebrations of our history, culture, and growth

The Company

At Dimensional, we want to change the way the world thinks about investing. As a leading global investment firm, we offer systematic, value-added investment solutions based on robust science and thoughtful implementation. Our global team includes more than 1,600 passionate people with diverse experiences, education, strengths, and talents. With a learning mindset rooted in academia and powered by the great ideas in finance, we pursue what we believe are the strongest investment solutions, while providing a world-class client experience. Every employee plays a role in delivering these experiences, and we know we can achieve the most when we work as a team to endeavor to help improve investors’ lives.

Location and Hybrid Work

Dimensional sees great value from collaborating in our offices and appreciates the benefits of flexibility. Most roles fit our office-first hybrid approach: We are together on our campuses Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays and have the choice to work in the office or remotely, depending on what is best for that work day, on Mondays and Fridays. This approach maximizes in-person collaboration and interaction while simultaneously providing flexibility and applies to most roles globally with a few exceptions that require more or less time in the office. Please discuss with your Recruiter to confirm the details for this specific role.

Equal Opportunity Statement

It is the policy of the Company to provide equal opportunity for all employees and applicants. The Company recruits, hires, trains, promotes, compensates, and administers all personnel actions without regard to actual or perceived race, color, religion, religious practice, creed, sex, sex stereotyping, pregnancy (which includes pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), caregiver status, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender identity, national origin, age, mental or physical disability, ancestry, medical condition, marital status, familial status, domestic partnership status, military or veteran status or service, unemployment status, citizenship status or alienage, sexual orientation, status as a victim of domestic violence, status as a victim of stalking, status as a victim of sex offenses, genetic information, political activities or recreational activities, arrest or conviction record, salary history, natural hairstyle or any other status protected by applicable law except as otherwise required or permitted by law or regulation applicable to the Company or its affiliates.

Policy

The use of Artificial Intelligence during interviews and skill testing is prohibited, unless Dimensional Fund Advisors has authorized such use.

If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, such accommodation is available upon request.