Principal Python Software Engineer

• Posted 7 hours ago • Updated 7 hours ago
Full Time
On-site
USD $220,000.00 - 240,000.00 per year
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Skills

  • Financial Services
  • Research
  • Workflow
  • Level Design
  • Technical Drafting
  • Terraform
  • Computer Engineering
  • Software Development
  • Python
  • Object-Oriented Programming
  • Django
  • Flask
  • Cloud Computing
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Computer Science
  • Data Structure
  • Algorithms

Summary

BH-12219-6 Posted: 01/05/2026
  • $220,000-$250,000 per annum
  • Boston, United States
  • Permanent

Principal Software Engineer
Boston - hybrid working
Salary: $220-240k base + bonus

Our growing Financial Services client is looking for an experienced Principal Software Engineer to join their team in Boston on a hybrid working pattern

Responsibilities:
  • Work closely with members of the Research group to review and define requirements for the compute platforms, workflow and observability systems
  • Provide expert level design that ensures the solution to be scalable, cost-effective and to have low maintenance
  • Lead technical design discussions within the team
  • Develop high quality solutions in both on premise environments and AWS Cloud using Python and other languages
  • Develop Infrastructure-As-Code solutions using Terraform, develop the automated build and deploy pipelines with unit and integrated tests to ensure high quality and efficient operations
  • Provide guidance to other team members on development tasks.

Requirements:
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related discipline
  • 8+ years of professional software development experience using Python or another object-oriented language
  • Ideally have worked with Django, Flask or FastAPI
  • Solid experience leading design or architecture of large-scale production systems
  • 3+ years of experience developing large, high-performance, distributed systems
  • Strong experience building high-performance cloud native solutions on public cloud (AWS preferred)
  • Strong in computer science fundamentals like data structures, algorithm design and complexity analysis

What you get in return:
  • Competitive base salary
  • Benefits
  • Very high OTE with a solid performance bonus every year!
  • Career progression and development opportunities
  • The chance to work within a challenging and fast-paced environment with some of the best in the field

Sound like you? Please send across your updated resume, and we can arrange a confidential conversation to discuss in more detail!

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  • Dice Id: 90922487
  • Position Id: 24322620
  • Posted 7 hours ago
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