{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"dfbaf2b03d0f4b671a6630de","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/dfbaf2b03d0f4b671a6630de","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/dfbaf2b03d0f4b671a6630de","title":"Lead Software Development Engineer","description":"DescriptionThe application window will close September 01, 2026Job Location  The primary work location for this role is the United States with a remote work model. 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 Our team builds and operates mission-critical trading and investment technology that helps power adaptive wealth management. We work on high-throughput, real-time systems that support the full lifecycle of transaction processing—from validating and routing requests to ensuring accurate downstream reporting and operational readiness. The work sits at the intersection of distributed systems engineering, financial domain complexity, and platform reliability, with an emphasis on scalability, resilience, and correctness.What makes this team especially exciting is the combination of deep engineering ownership and a highly collaborative, fast-moving culture. You’ll partner closely with product, platform, and risk/compliance stakeholders, and you’ll help shape how we modernize our services and workflows over time—including thoughtful use of AI and automation to improve developer productivity, operational efficiency, and decision support. Engineers on this team tackle challenging problems end-to-end, contribute to technical direction, and build solutions that are designed to operate safely in a regulated environment.How You’ll ContributeResponsible 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. Architects and designs systems, services, or platforms with broad impact. Leads technical decision-making for major features or initiatives. Breaks down complex problems into scalable and maintainable solutions. Drives cross-team collaboration and align technical solutions with business goals. Establishes and enforces best practices in architecture, coding, and deployment. Mentors engineers across multiple levels and contribute to talent development. Anticipates technical risks and proactively implement mitigation strategies. Leads incident response and root cause analysis for critical issues. Influences roadmap planning through technical insight and feasibility analysis. Partners with DevOps/SRE to improve system reliability, deployment automation, and observability. Designs and maintains CI/CD pipelines for owned services, improving deployment speed and safety. Implements infrastructure-aware design decisions (scalability, failover, resiliency, cost). Owns the architecture and delivery of mission-critical fintech services, ensuring transactional correctness, clear service boundaries, and effective data ownership models. Leads the adoption of AI-driven and agentic AI capabilities, establishing appropriate governance, guardrails, auditability, and compliance controls for production use. Leads a cross-functional Agile/Scrum team, supporting sprint planning, estimation, and delivery execution to achieve successful business outcomes. Partners with product, platform, and risk/compliance stakeholders to translate complex business and regulatory requirements into scalable, production-ready solutions.What You’ll Need to Bring 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. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field required (Master’s preferred). Strong background in building distributed, transactional systems in fintech or other regulated domains, with deep understanding of data consistency, idempotency, fault tolerance, and scalability. Solid understanding of security, observability, and production incident handling. Demonstrated ability to lead architectural decisions, define technical standards, and communicate trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Experience with event driven architectures (Kafka, async messaging), Cloud infrastructures (AWS, GCP, Azure). Familiarity with AI cost control, evaluation, and governance practices. Prior experience in trading systems, real‑time financial platforms, or regulated production environments.Nice-to-Haves Tech Stack Languages & Frameworks: Java, Spring Boot, Python Data & Systems: SQL, Distributed Systems, Transactional Services Messaging: Kafka, Async Messaging Cloud & Platform: Cloud Infrastructure, Kubernetes, Docker AI & Agents: Agentic AI (LangGraph), RAG, Vector Stores Security & Ops: Security Tooling, Observability & Monitoring PlatformsWhy 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.The opportunity is now!   Sponsorship This position is not open to candidates requiring visa sponsorship  Our Investment in YouThis role offers a base salary range of $152,300 to $190,400. 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 Envestnet is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and applicants. 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We are aware that scammers may impersonate Envestnet recruiters or create fake job opportunities to deceive candidates. 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We work on high-throughput, real-time systems that support the full lifecycle of transaction processing—from validating and routing requests to ensuring accurate downstream reporting and operational readiness. The work sits at the intersection of distributed systems engineering, financial domain complexity, and platform reliability, with an emphasis on scalability, resilience, and correctness.What makes this team especially exciting is the combination of deep engineering ownership and a highly collaborative, fast-moving culture. You’ll partner closely with product, platform, and risk/compliance stakeholders, and you’ll help shape how we modernize our services and workflows over time—including thoughtful use of AI and automation to improve developer productivity, operational efficiency, and decision support. 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Leads the adoption of AI-driven and agentic AI capabilities, establishing appropriate governance, guardrails, auditability, and compliance controls for production use. Leads a cross-functional Agile/Scrum team, supporting sprint planning, estimation, and delivery execution to achieve successful business outcomes. Partners with product, platform, and risk/compliance stakeholders to translate complex business and regulatory requirements into scalable, production-ready solutions.What You’ll Need to Bring 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. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field required (Master’s preferred). 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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.The opportunity is now!   Sponsorship This position is not open to candidates requiring visa sponsorship  Our Investment in YouThis role offers a base salary range of $152,300 to $190,400. 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 Envestnet is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and applicants. 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We are aware that scammers may impersonate Envestnet recruiters or create fake job opportunities to deceive candidates. Review the information on our recruitment fraud awareness page to help you recognize and avoid recruitment fraud.","datePosted":"2026-08-08T10:14:01.833Z","dateModified":"2026-08-08T10:14:01.833Z","hiringOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Envestnet","sameAs":"https://jobsearcher.com"},"jobLocation":{"@type":"Place","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":"Herculaneum","addressRegion":"MO","addressCountry":"US"}},"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","name":"JobSearcher","value":"dfbaf2b03d0f4b671a6630de"},"url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/dfbaf2b03d0f4b671a6630de"}}